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Tourists, Residents Evacuated From Grand Canyon Due To Wildfires

Fast-spreading wildfires have forced the evacuation of part of the Grand Canyon, with the US National Park Service ordering visitors and residents away from its northern rim.

International Business Times · Jul 12, 2025

Air pollution monitoring to protect people and wildlife in national parks suspended after former oil exec given oversight of National Park Service

The change comes amid fears that other conservation programmes will be next in the firing line

Advnture · May 8, 2025

Life as a federal worker is a roller coaster ride, park ranger says - Roll Call

Park ranger Marinell Chandler describes the roller coaster ride of a federal employee in the first three months of the Trump administration.

Roll Call · Apr 28, 2025

Private donations pour in for cash-strapped national parks - Roll Call

The National Park Service is seeing the largest surge in private support in its 108-year history while facing a $23 billion backlog.

Roll Call · Dec 2, 2024

A GOP senate candidate says he was shot while serving in Afghanistan. A Montana ranger says that’s not what happened

A former Park Service ranger says U.S. Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy of Montana has been lying about a bullet wound that the candidate said came from fighting in Afghanistan

The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2024

Congress Supports Advocates In Effort To Save Wild Horses

Advocates push to save wild horses in Theodore Roosevelt National Park amid debate over their future.

Top News · Mar 13, 2024

Maintenance backlog grows at national parks as funding tightens - Roll Call

The National Park Service is struggling to catch up with a maintenance backlog of more than $22 billion.

Roll Call · Oct 3, 2023

Now a national monument, Bronzeville church where Emmett Till’s casket lay open gets official sign

Roberts Temple Church, at 40th and State streets, will preserve the site where Till’s body was displayed in an open casket and launched the modern Civil Rights Movement.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 1, 2023

Kayaking among whales and bears in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park

GLACIER BAY NATIONAL PARK, Alaska – A giant, hollow breath, deep as a crevasse, breaks the predawn quiet.

Tribune News Service · Apr 10, 2023

National Park Service proposes ban on 'controversial' hunting and trapping methods in Alaska's federal preserves

The National Park Service wants to reinstate bans on what it describes as "controversial" hunting and trapping activities on Alaska's federal preserves, including luring bears with bait, shooting swimming caribou or killing wolf pups in their dens.

Tribune News Service · Jan 18, 2023