Dumpster-Diving Yellowstone Grizzly Put Down A 400-pound grizzly who overcame 800-pound bear-resistant dumpsters by flipping them was put down in Yellowstone National Park because of its determination to obtain human foods.

A dumpster-diving grizzly has been euthanized in Yellowstone National Park.

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Are Staffing Woes Keeping Yosemite National Park's High Sierra Camps Closed? Officially, the word is that the inability to provide potable water and toilets to the High Sierra Camps in the backcountry of Yosemite National Park will keep the camps closed this summer, though a l...

What’s keeping the High Sierra Camps in Yosemite National Park closed this summer?

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Former National Park Service Directors Urge Burgum To Reverse Course On Parks Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is being urged by five former directors of the National Park Service to reverse course on his directives impacting national parks, writing that his orders could force su...

Interior Sec Burgum is being urged by former National Park Service directors not to gut the agency.

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NPCA: President's Budget Would Close More Than 300 National Parks More than 90 percent of Biscayne National Park is under water, so no one would miss it if it was dropped from the National Park System, right? You might say the same for Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout...

An analysis of President Trump’s FY26 funding proposal for the National Park Service indicates more than 300 parks would close for lack of funding.

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House Republicans Propose Millions In Cuts To National Park Service Budget More than $100 million would be stripped from the National Park Service under a budget proposal passed by Republicans in the House Natural Resources Committee, which also wants to green-light a 211-mi...

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives want to strip more than $100 million from the National Park Service budget and use part of that to build Presidential Trump’s statuary garden to American heroes.

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President Trump Proposes Dismantling Parts Of National Park System President Donald Trump in his Fiscal 2026 budget proposal is calling for some units of the National Park System to be transferred to "state-level management, a suggestion that would need Congressional...

President Trump is calling for some units of the National Park System to be given to states to run.

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Report: National Park Service RIF To Be "Deep And Blunt" A reduction-in-force coming to the National Park Service within the next two weeks has been described internally as being "deep and blunt," according to a social media post.

The upcoming reduction in force for the National Park Service is being described internally as “deep and blunt.”

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As RIF Nears, All Interior Department Employees Asked To Submit Resumes As Interior Department staff continue to work towards an across-the-board reduction in force, all Interior employees have been asked to update and submit their resumes to the department.

Interior Department officials have asked all their employees, including those in the National Park Service, to verify their personnel records and update and submit their resumes.

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Gray Wolf Found Dead In Rocky Mountain National Park A gray wolf has been found dead in Rocky Mountain National Park, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials.

A gray wolf has been found dead in Rocky Mountain National Park.

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Report On National Monuments Eyed For Energy Draws Concerns Reports that the Trump administration was eyeing six national monuments in the West for energy development drew promises Thursday that any reduction in a monument's boundaries would be met with a laws...

Monumental problems? Talk of shrinking national monuments draws talk of lawsuits.

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Interior Department's Draft Strategy: Capitalize On Natural Resources A draft copy of the Interior Department's strategic plan calls for more public-private partnerships, increasing grazing, logging, and mining, improving management of trails, opening more lands to hunt...

Curious about what the Interior Department is planning? A draft copy of its strategic plan calls for more consumption of federal lands and their natural resources.

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U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman: Trump Administration Focused On Chaos U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman, the ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, didn't hesitate when asked what he thought the Trump administration's goal was with its approach to the environm...

U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman says the Trump administration has one key objective: creating chaos. And that has dire reverberations for public lands and environmental laws and regs.

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It's National Park Week: What Can You Do? By now you've seen the stories about what you'll experience in the National Park System this summer: crowds and long lines to enter parks, dirty restrooms, vandalism, chaos. The question to be asked i...

Upset with how the Trump administration is managing public lands? Here are some suggestions of what you can do.

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Traveler's View | There Are Known Unknowns There are "known unknowns" concerning the makeover of the National Park Service that President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficency is orchestrating.

The lack of transparency from the Interior Department is greatly concerning and makes one wonder if they know what they’re doing.

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Trump Administration Proposing To Do Away With "Harm" Definition For Endangered Species A rule proposed by the Trump administration would weaken the Endangered Species Act by allowing for the modification of critical habitat threatened and endangered species rely on to survive.

A rule proposed by the Trump administration would weaken the Endangered Species Act by allowing for modification of habitat threatened and endangered species rely on to survive.#species #nationalparks

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Trump Militarizes Federal Lands Along Southern Border President Trump has expanded the military's role on federal lands, including national parks, along the country's southern border, saying the boder "is under attack from a variety of threats. The compl...

President Trump has ordered a greater military presence on federal lands along the southern border, including national park lands.

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More Than 10 Percent Of National Park Service Workforce Has Left An estimated 2,400-2,500 National Park Service employees, roughly 12.5 percent of the agency's entire workforce have taken Trump administration offers to resign or retire, according to the National Pa...

More than 10 percent of the National Park Service workforce has resigned or retired under President Trump’s early-out offers.

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President Trump Trying To Remove 150 Years Of Environmental Regulations President Donald Trump is moving to wipe more than 150 years of environmental regulations off the books, including provisions tied to the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the ...

President Trump wants to get rid of 150 years of environmental regs that he believes impede energy development.

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Interior Plans To Drop Environmental Reviews Of Energy Development In The West Environmental reviews designed to protect landscapes and communities from oil and gas development in the West will be done away with, the Interior Department announced Thursday.

The Interior Department says lengthy environmental reviews of oil and gas exploration in seven Western states will no longer be done.

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Overhaul Of Interior Department And Its Bureaus Coming A massive overhaul of the Interior Department and all its bureaus, which include the National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management, apparently is in the works, while at the same time Interior Se...

Interior Secretary Burgum plans a major overhaul of the department and all its bureaus, including the National Park Service. And he views federal lands as a $100 Trillion cash cow that should be cashed out.

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National Parks Traveler Surpasses 1 Million Readers In 2025 Just three months into the year, more than one million of you have read the National Parks Traveler's content, either on our website or on our Apple News feed — a 450 percent increase over last year.

Thanks to all who helped us reach 1 million readers in record time!

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Traveler's View | How Are We Doing? A country’s wealth, and it’s soul, can be measured in how it cares for its natural resources. It’s wildlife, vistas, streams and lakes.

Have you sampled the product lately? By “product” I mean the national parks. They’ve been needy for awhile, and it doesn’t seem like they’re going to get much help for a long time.

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Trump Administration Said To Be Aiming To Weaken Endangered Species Act The Trump administration has initiated steps to redefine what it means to "harm" a threatened or endangered species, a move that could jeopardize the effectiveness of the Endangered Species Act, accor...

The Trump administration is believed to have the Endangered Species Act in its crosshairs.

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National Park Superintendents Told To Use Ingenuity When Staffing National park superintendents, told to properly staff the National Park System in the face of firings and resignations, have been directed to use their ingenuity when it comes to accomplishing that ta...

National park superintendents have been told to use their ingenuity to staff their parks.

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Efforts Underway To Track Trump Administration's Changes To History While the Trump administration has been changing, altering, or in some cases erasing history from federal government websites, there are organizations out there that have been working to protect that ...

The Trump administration’s efforts to change, distort, or erase history are being tracked.

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Senate, By Slim Margin, Open To Selling Public Lands The U.S. Senate, by a three-vote margin, is fine with public lands being sold off to reduce the federal government, according to conservation groups.

Did you hear? The U.S. Senate is OK with selling federal lands to cover the president’s economic plans.

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National Park Service Opens Another Window For Employees To Resign The National Park Service on Friday opened another window for federal employees to resign now but remain on the payroll through September.

A day after Interior Sec Burgum ordered the National Park Service to ensure proper staffing in the parks, the agency has asked for employees to resign now but remain on the payroll.

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What We're Hearing From Yosemite National Park A lack of staffing at Yosemite National Park, and the decision to open campgrounds, has raised the prospect of existing staff being unable to maintain restrooms as visitors head to the park for some R...

What we’re hearing from Yosemite National Park is not what you want to hear. Let us know what you’re hearing from around the National Park System.

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Big Bend's Water Woes Spring-break crowds, drought conditions, and a poor water source recently created quite the problem at Big Bend National Park, a problem that required the Big Bend Conservancy to bail out the National...

Here’s an interesting story about how drought, spring break, and a woeful water system required the Big Bend Conservancy to bail out the National Park Service at Big Bend National Park.

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Why Our Nation's Most Vulnerable Species Are At Risk President Trump’s zest for rapidly shrinking the government is triggering anxiety about conservation priorities that have been embedded for more than five decades in the country’s national parks and w...

Here’s something to pay attention to if you value biodiversity.

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