Uncover the rugged beauty and rich Indigenous history of Utah – a vast state with some of the country’s most famous national ...

Some 54 million years ago, this entire region of Oregon lay beneath the Pacific Ocean. Within the striated rock, scientists have found fossilized evidence of more than 2,200 plants and animals and of ...

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Every national park site sits on ancestral lands. So what does it mean to be a Native American working for the Park Service today? “I am not an artifact,” said Albert LeBeau III, an archaeologist and ...

Plan finds a unique balance between conservation, recreation, and energy development, and shows just how much Utahans love their national parks. For many visitors, Moab’s dramatic, natural red rock ...

Emmett Till was murdered 64 years ago. Is it time for a national park that recognizes him and tells the story of the civil rights struggle in Mississippi? When 14-year-old Emmett Till left Chicago for ...

Grab a map, load up on water and choose your own adventure at Mojave National Preserve. Two hours after leaving Las Vegas, we rolled to a stop at Hole-in-the-Wall Campground. It was 2:30 a.m., and my ...

Blog Post A Woman on Mount Rushmore? Feb 2018 | By Nicolas Brulliard Mount Rushmore National Memorial features the faces of four U.S. presidents. All, of course, are men, but Congress considered a ...

We were young, brown outsiders in the world of outdoor adventure. Climbing Grand Teton marked a turning point. One September morning in 1979, I stood on the summit of Grand Teton with my friend, Mark ...

Trained as an ecological anthropologist, Dr. James D. Nations has spent the past 25 years working for the protection of natural ecosystems and cultural heritage in the tropics and the United States.

What happens when erosion, rising seas, a national park and a beach community collide? Shortly after sunrise in mid-January, I parked my car behind a few pickup trucks on South Shore Drive in the ...

More than a century after Native Americans were displaced to create Glacier National Park, a Blackfeet-run tour company offers visitors a chance to see the park from the perspective of the people who ...