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Thanks To All Who Supported The National Parks Traveler With A Donation

Thank you to everyone who donated to the National Parks Traveler during the year-end NewsMatch campaign to raise philanthropic dollars for nonprofit media organizations. We fell just short of our ...
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Senators To Consider More Than Two Dozen Measures Affecting National Parks

Measures to open areas of Capitol Reef National Park in Utah to OHV use, to rename Mount McKinley in Denali National Park in Alaska as Denali, to block Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida from ...
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NPS Staff Told To Return To Work Thursday If CR Is Approved

National Park Service staff across the country is expected to return to work on Thursday if Congress approves a continuing resolution (CR) providing funding for the government on Wednesday and ...
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The Unseen Costs Of The Government Shutdown On National Parks

The budget stalemate that politicians are clinging to in Washington is roiling parks across the country, upending everything from scientific research to infrastructure work and forcing employees to ...
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The Wrecking Ball At The White House

It is not unusual to see a crowd gathered along the black iron gates that surround the White House. As the home and workplace of the U.S. president, it is a constant draw for tourists to the nation’s ...
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Utah's U.S. Senators Want To Open National Parks To OHVs

Utah's two United States senators have authored legislation that would open up Capitol Reef National Park, and possibly other units of the National Park System, to off-road vehicle travel.
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Lawmakers Demand The Return Of Educational Signs Removed From Acadia National Park

Eleven state lawmakers in Maine have signed a letter condemning the recent removal of educational signs in Acadia National Park, as directed by Secretary Doug Burgum of the U.S. Department of the ...
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Can Grizzly Bears Survive Without The Endangered Species Act?

Decades of work to divert grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem from a path toward extinction could be jeopardized in the U.S. House of Representatives, where the iconic bruins will test ...
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Wildfire Destroys Historic Grand Canyon Lodge, Surrounding Cabins

A wildfire fanned by winds gusting to 40 miles per hour destroyed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge and surrounding cabins at Grand Canyon National Park, where the North Rim had been closed to the ...
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Trump Budget Request Would Cut National Park Service Workforce By More Than 5,500

The National Park Service would lose more than 5,500 employees under President Trump’s Fiscal 2026 budget proposal, one that would have far-reaching impacts to the agency's mandate and which Defenders ...
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Public Urged To Report National Park Placards That Disparage Americans Or Detracts From Scenic Grandeur

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum hopes to enlist the public in identifying interpretive materials in the National Park System that disparage Americans past or living or which contain content that ...
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Where To Go Caving In The National Park System

Last week we mentioned that Crystal Cave at Sequoia National Park was reopening to the public for the first time since 2021. Now we're going to tell you where else in the National Park System you can ...