National Parks Traveler has been honored by the Canadian chapter of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) for a photo of a child visiting the Trump border wall in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
Canada has until Feb. 1 to file an action plan to UNESCO about what it will do about serious, ongoing threats to Wood Buffalo National Park. The new deadline came when UNESCO World Heritage Committee approved a report that found that the place of Canada's largest national park on the World Heritage Site list is in danger.
Soon after taking my first good look at the barren and alien orange landscape of the Tablelands, I held a heavy chunk of rusty-looking peridotite in my hands and tried to absorb its global significance.
The moose population management program in Gros Morne National Park will open on Sept. 23 and close on Jan. 28. There are three hunting zones within the park boundary with different opening dates for each zone. A fourth zone is closed to hunting.