The Latest Breaking News from the National Park Service

The United States’ national parks have an inherent contradiction. The federal law that created the National Park Service says the agency – and the parks – must “conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife … unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”

The Trump administration’s cuts to the National Park Service’s budget and staffing have raised concerns among park advocates and the public that the administration is aiming to further privatize the national parks.

​The wildfire that destroyed a Grand Canyon lodge this month was the latest blow to the National Park Service staffing and funding cuts.

Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs has toured the destruction left by a wildfire along the Grand Canyon’s North Rim

A new welcome center at the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine tells the story of the land from the perspective of its original inhabitants — the Native Americans who comprise the Wabanaki Confederacy

A wind-whipped wildfire reduced the nearly century-old lodge to a skeleton of itself within hours

The Grand Canyon Lodge was engulfed in flames because of the Dragon Bravo Wildfire. Authorities are now using an aggressive full suppression strategy to control the fire.

The executive order instructs the National Park Service to charge higher entrance fees to visitors from abroad

In the absence of federal oversight, Black communities band together to stave off development on historic resting places