Parks in the News

Visitors to Great Basin National Park can now explore the park’s 10-million-year-old Lehman Caves from a new perspective by joining an Introduction to Wild Caving Tour.

National Park Service funding would decline by 6 percent and recovery of species whose populations raise questions of their ability to avoid extinction would suffer under a draft budget proposal crafted by the Republican majority on the House Appropriations Committee.

Growing popularity of Cumberland Island National Seashore, which shimmers in the Atlantic on Georgia's largest barrier island, has driven the National Park Service there to craft a plan to, it hopes, better manage that visitation. The agency there has extended the public comment period on their Visitor Use Management Plan through December 30, providing interested parties additional time to review a document that, if approved, significantly evolves the seashore's nearly four-decades old general management plan.

If you want to learn more about issues specific to Glacier National Park, you now have a podcast to download.