The life and times of an unlikely resident of Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument. No one had seen the alligator for years. Most locals doubted it had ever been there, though the community ...

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 ...

Every year, national parks receive dozens of rocks and artifacts returned by remorseful visitors. What are parks to do with the stuff? In August 1988, a woman named Tracie typed and mailed a letter to ...

With Booker T. Washington’s help, Julius Rosenwald built 5,000 schools for Black students across 15 Southern states. Why do so few people know his name? Mostly, what Newell Quinton knew about his ...

Wild donkeys are cute but destructive, and park officials don’t know what to do with them. To see Death Valley National Park’s largest animal, your best bet is to head west on California state Route ...

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 ...

The Everglades ecosystem once stretched across a mosaic of wetlands and subtropical wilderness from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay. Unfortunately, by the mid-1900s nearly half of the slow-moving ...

Is the U.S. Ready for a National Park Site Devoted to Reconstruction? On the evening of May 12, 1862, the Confederate ship Planter sailed into Charleston’s harbor, and the captain and officers, ...

Opening a tribal house and closing a divide in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. Barely a ripple disturbed the sea as three hand-carved red dugout canoes glided through a cove in Glacier Bay ...

This lush wetland park on the banks of the Anacostia River is an oasis of lily pads and blossoms amid the city streets. The park land was originally owned by Walter Shaw, a hobbyist who cultivated and ...

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