Rocky Mountain National Park This dramatic landscape of towering mountains and alpine lakes encompasses more than 265,000 acres - 95% of which are designated wilderness. With this intentional focus on ...

Robert Annis is a freelance journalist based in Indianapolis. Robert Annis is a freelance journalist based in Indianapolis ...

George Frazier writes about the importance of wild places and native ecosystems in middle America. His previous book is “The Last Wild Places of Kansas,” (2016) University Press of Kansas.

As a vital early American town, Harpers Ferry has been the site of a number of historical events. It was a point of supply for Meriwether Lewis’s Corps of Discovery, the site of John Brown’s ...

Big Bend National Park features broad expanses of Chihuahuan Desert shrubland and grassland interspersed with smaller areas of high-elevation woodland in the Chisos Mountains. Rugged rocks and deep ...

America’s national parks are beloved for their extraordinary landscapes and rich cultural and historical significance.

The Trump administration, the House and the Senate have each laid out their potential budgets for national parks and public ...

"Chuckwalla National Monument is beloved, broadly supported across the political spectrum, and fundamental to our shared ...

Bristlecone pines, pictured here on top of Mount Washington in Great Basin National Park, are thought to be the longest-lived individual organisms on Earth.

Slashing $1 billion from the National Park Service budget would forever alter the park system as we know it.

Phil Francis is chair of The Coalition to Protect America's National Parks. He retired in 2013 after serving for 41 years in various capacities with the National Park Service. His positions included ...