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Grand Teton National Park Researchers Study String, Leigh Lake Visitors

Grand Teton National Park managers are learning from research and field staff observations to improve visitor use management and provide high quality visitor experiences in the popular String and Leigh lakes area. Social scientists from Oregon State, Penn State, and Utah State universities are nearing completion of a two-year study to better understand visitor use, experience, and behaviors in this scenic area as well as the related resource impacts.

Proposed Management Plans For Utah Monuments Released, Draw Criticism

Proposed management plans for two national monuments in southern Utah that were reduced in size by President Trump and their surrounding lands would increase air quality impacts, pose a greater threat than other alternatives to cultural resources, not manage any acres to protect wilderness qualities while make more lands available to mining and livestock grazing.

Essay | Plan, Think, And Don’t Be Stupid In A National Park

Photographer Rebecca Latson recently completed a 3-week road trip and move from southeast Texas up to central Washington State. During that time, she visited five national parks. In those parks, she saw some pretty stupid stuff such as litter, people driving faster than the posted speed limit, and poor choices in hiking footwear, to name a few things. Rebecca wrote an article of her observations, which are a good reminder for us all to do some planning and be a little more thoughtful of how we treat our national parks as guests.