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In the arid, desert Southwest, water is life, and the springs at Pipe Springs National Monument have long sustained Indigenous people, early explorers, and Mormon immigrants.

In a move viewed as unprecedented and apparently against agency regulations, National Park Service Director Chuck Sams signed off on a request to allow the Jemez Pueblo in New Mexico to kill either a bald or golden eagle in Valles Caldera Preserve.

In a move criticized as unprecedented and apparently against agency regulations, National Park Service Director Chuck Sams signed off on a request to allow the Jemez Pueblo in New Mexico to kill either a bald or golden eagle in Valles Caldera Preserve.

Some lodging prices in Yellowstone National Park are effectively blocking a wide segment of Americans, whose tax dollars help pay for the National Park System out of experiencing a night or two in the park's iconic lodges.

Vibrant hues of fall layering the hills and hollows of Shenandoah National Park lure the park’s greatest crowds of the year, filling lodgings and crowding hiking trails, overlooks, and parking lots.

Beneath South Dakota's Black Hills, just 30 miles from the busy crowds at Mount Rushmore National Memorial, lies a world of deep passages, pristine lakes, and unique geologic features at Jewel Cave National Monument.

For thousands of years elk, deer, moose, bear, bighorn sheep, antelope and other wildlife have roamed the West in specific migratory patterns. But iIn today’s modern world there are barriers to these ingrained habits.

What better way to spend a summer vacation than floating down a wild river? Whether in a canoe down the Ozark National Scenic Waterway, a day-trip down Montana’s Flathead River, or a multi-week adventure deep in the Grand Canyon, it’s time to plan your trip.

Avian flu, which has devastated chicken flocks across the country, has been blamed for the deaths of at least 10 of 20 California condors from the Utah-Arizona flock, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.