National Parks Traveler

Inaction by the Biden administration on rules that would prevent bear baiting in national preserves in Alaska has reopened litigation over those rules. At issue are rules that would allow hunters on national preservers to use donuts and grease-soaked bread loaves to lure in bears, to kill ...

With a one-sentence ruling the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to stay, pending appeal, commercial air tour bans approved by the National Park Service for Badlands National Park and Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota. The ruling by the 8th Circuit last week ...

While the National Park Service stands atop all federal agencies in terms of favorability rankings, the agency’s employees rank it as one of the worst places to work in the federal government. In the Best Places To Work In the Federal Government rankings released Monday, the Park ...

The National Park Service has a toxic problem that no one wants to talk about, and that’s the problem. Across the agency there may be hundreds, possibly many hundreds, of employees claiming they’ve endured some form of harassment, discrimination, or retaliation. The overriding problem ...

The National Park Service has been sued over Director Chuck Sams’ decision to allow the Jemez Pueblo to kill an eagle in Valles Caldera National Preserve by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which is asking to see the decision documents Sams relied on to authorize ...