A dumpster-diving grizzly has been euthanized in Yellowstone National Park. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/05/dump...

What’s keeping the High Sierra Camps in Yosemite National Park closed this summer? www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/05/are-...

Interior Sec Burgum is being urged by former National Park Service directors not to gut the agency. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/05/form...

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. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/05/npca...

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. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/05/hous...

President Trump is calling for some units of the National Park System to be given to states to run. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/05/pres...

The upcoming reduction in force for the National Park Service is being described internally as “deep and blunt.” www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/05/repo...

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. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/rif-...

A gray wolf has been found dead in Rocky Mountain National Park. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/gray...

Monumental problems? Talk of shrinking national monuments draws talk of lawsuits. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/repo...

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. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/inte...

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. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/us-r...

Upset with how the Trump administration is managing public lands? Here are some suggestions of what you can do. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/its-...

The lack of transparency from the Interior Department is greatly concerning and makes one wonder if they know what they’re doing. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/trav...

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 www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/trum...

President Trump has ordered a greater military presence on federal lands along the southern border, including national park lands. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/trum...

More than 10 percent of the National Park Service workforce has resigned or retired under President Trump’s early-out offers. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/more...

President Trump wants to get rid of 150 years of environmental regs that he believes impede energy development. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/pres...

The Interior Department says lengthy environmental reviews of oil and gas exploration in seven Western states will no longer be done. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/inte...

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. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/over...

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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. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/trav...

The Trump administration is believed to have the Endangered Species Act in its crosshairs. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/trum...

National park superintendents have been told to use their ingenuity to staff their parks. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/nati...

The Trump administration’s efforts to change, distort, or erase history are being tracked. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/effo...

Did you hear? The U.S. Senate is OK with selling federal lands to cover the president’s economic plans. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/sena...

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. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/nati...

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. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/what...

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. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/big-...

Here’s something to pay attention to if you value biodiversity. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/03/why-...

It’s going to “take years” to repair some sections of the storm-battered Blue Ridge Parkway. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/03/blue...

Jamestown is under water, and that’s a huge problem for a National Park Service site that holds some of the country’s oldest and most valuable artifacts. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/03/jame...

Interior Department officials have asked a federal judge to stay his order that they rehire 1000 National Park Service employees fired on Valentine’s Day. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/03/trum...

President Trump has reversed national monument protections for nearly 1 million acres. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/03/pres...

Here’s something I’ve been wondering about lately: Will national park visitors notice the reduced park staffing this year?And why is the Trump administration so focused on cutting an agency whose budget is 1/15th of 1% of the federal budget? www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/03/trav...

U.S. Rep Raul Grijalva, a fierce champion for national parks, has died. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/03/us-r...

A federal judge has ordered the National Park Service to rehire any of the 1000 employees who were fired on Valentine’s Day if they were wrongly terminated. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/03/judg...

It really is pretty cool to have an active volcano in the National Park System that puts on regular shows for visitors. Shows that can include fountains of lava jetting 500 feet into the sky! www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/03/kila...

If there’s a government shutdown this coming weekend, will the Trump administration keep national parks open? If it does, it might not be pretty. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/03/nati...

The National Park Service has a leadership vacuum that might not be filled. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/03/nati...

History preserved by the National Park Service—human remains, tattered mining claims, the complete works of Shakespeare and more— could be at risk from the Trump administration’s plans to cancel facility leases. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/03/hist...

The National Park Service has canceled ranger programs and shortened visitor center hours at Kings Canyon and Sequoia national parks. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/03/sequ...

National parks welcomed a record 331.9 million visitors last year. But the National Park Service didn’t announce it. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/03/nati...

National park facilities from Alaska to Florida are targeted for closure by the Trump administration. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/03/nati...

In an Op-Ed for the Traveler, former National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis says ALL National Park Service employees are essential and should not be part of a reduction-in-force. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/03/op-e...

President Trump’s freeze on federal funds could push endangered Hawaiian birds at Haleakala National Park to extinction. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/02/hawa...

No surprise here, right?? www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/02/econ...

More than 700 National Park Service staff have decided to take up the Trump administration’s offer to quit now and be paid for months. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/02/more...

Cashes Ledge is a submerged wonderland of marine life. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/02/work...

Raise your hand if you were at Rocky Mountain National Park to protest the firing of 1000 employees. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/02/form...