The National Park Service is seeking public input on proposed increases to camping fees at Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and Colorado. The proposed fee increases are based on comparability studies done with surrounding private and public facilities.
The National Park Service is implementing an increase for camping and other associated fees on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Rate changes include frontcountry and backcountry camping site fees, as well as non-camper user fees for shower and dump station services.
Canada is exploring the feasibility of establishing a new national park in the Peel Watershed in the Yukon and in the traditional territories of the Gwich’in and the First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun.
Numbers of Devils Hole pupfish in a tiny crater that is part of Death Valley National Park have reached the highest spring count in 25 years, according to National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists.