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House Committee Passes Nearly Two Dozen Public Lands Measures

While the House Natural Resources Committee has approved a wide range of measures that would not only extend park boundaries and protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from mining but also remove Confederate monuments from public lands, with the legislative calendar running out it's questionable whether any of these measures will gain full Congressional passage this year.

Filing Seeks To Determine Extent Of Environmental Contamination At Caneel Bay

A 12-page filing tied to one of the nation's strongest environmental laws could succeed where the National Park Service so far has failed in trying to determine the extent of environmental contamination at the Caneel Bay Resort on the shores of Virgin Islands National Park.

Tune Into National Parks Traveler's Podcast

Can a gun protect you from bears in a national park's backcountry? What music will you hear at the Blue Ridge Music Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway? What does the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory staff do? Grizzly bears and wolves in Yellowstone. Exploring the missions at San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. Those are just a handful of topics we've explored on National Parks Traveler's podcast series.

On River Time: Three Days In Dinosaur National Monument

My wife and I are staring at a lizard that must be four feet long, holding our breath in astonishment. Light tan in color, this creature is vividly outlined against an overhanging wall of sandstone. Painstakingly chipped out of the rock by some nameless Native American artisan, it has been on display here for at least seven hundred years, or longer than the Giotto frescos in Florence’s Santa Croce church.