Jeff West, a retired Park Service superintendent, maintains the agency needs to rebuild its staff to avert a crisis/Courtesy The National Park Service does not suffer from a lack of something to do or ...
Looking to add a little spice to your life with an adventure that includes new friends, new skills, a new environment and, perhaps best of all, appreciation of the work you do? If this sounds ...
For all those who were lost/For all those who were stolen/For all those who were left behind/For all those who were not forgotten. In a sacred outdoor space near City Hall in Lower Manhattan, those ...
A major sewer pipe that travels underneath the Potomac River from Virginia to Maryland has broken, releasing hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal ...
In addition to officially-designated national parks, there are national historic sites, national historical parks, national battlefields, national preserves, and national historic trails. All of these ...
Congaree, which was designated as a national monument in 1976 and renamed a national park in 2003, protects a remnant of hardwood bottomland forest that was covered a wide expanse of the southeastern ...
“Without the forest, Shenandoah simply wouldn’t be Shenandoah,” Cocciolone says. “This kind of consistent, decades-long ecological monitoring gives the park an extraordinary advantage—not just in ...
A 'pride boss' in Central Kruger listens hard for signs of the whereabouts of the pride. Although he would prefer not to be forced to hunt for dinner (his job is concentrated more on defending the ...
A yearslong legal battle over plans to build what’s been described as the world’s largest data processing center next to Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia has taken a turn against the ...
The growth of data processing centers is putting national parks in the Mid-Atlantic states at risk, according to a report from the National Parks Conservation Association.
The trail to Dege Peak in the Sunrise area of Mount Rainier National Park is one of the more popular trails in this area, and with good reason. The well-maintained route takes the hiker past scenic ...
Jessica Bowron, a National Park Service veteran who has been serving as the agency's comptroller, has been named acting director of the agency.