Botanist Wendy Cass oversees a decades-long project to monitor the health and well-being of the park's abundant forests--no easy task in the face of invasive species, climate change, and other ...

A long string of hot days with gusty winds and low humidities have enabled the Dragon Bravo Fire on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park to grow to 123,171 acres by Monday morning, which ...

Twenty years ago this month, the National Parks Traveler was born, a simple platform to explore environmental issues across the National Park System.

Caves, condors, high peaks, woodlands, and meadows. Pinnacles National Park in California, named after the eroded remnants formed from volcanic eruptions over 20 million years ago, offers visitors a ...

An abandoned campsite has been found in the backcountry of Badlands National Park in South Dakota, leading rangers to both wonder what happened to its occupants and a little irritated if it was ...

Heavy rainfall has led to undercutting of a stretch of the Newfound Gap Road that crosses Great Smoky Mountains National Park from Tennessee to North Carolina, forcing a temporary closure of the route ...

A screenshot from an NPS live webcam at Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, on Friday. The Dragon Bravo fire and other blazes burning across the West recently prompted concerns over air quality at some ...

A scene from the Bear Gulch fire/Division A via Inciweb Editor's note: This has been corrected to say Washington in the first paragraph. A wildfire burning in Olympic National Park made a massive jump ...

Fans of Arches National Park will enjoy this collection of articles specific to the park.

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Interior Department officials are committed to "rebuilding" the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park that's been partially overrun by a lightning-ignited fire that claimed the historic Grand Canyon ...

Cradled by the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, Shenandoah was born out of the same movement that created Great Smoky Mountains National Park -- a need for more parks east of the Mississippi River.