national parks
Shutdown threat hangs over Washington’s national parks
People traveling to Washington’s national parks may be met with locked gates and closed visitor centers come Sunday. The National Park Service says most of the parks it manages across the country would close during the partial federal shutdown that is likely to start over the weekend. How exactly the situation will play out in […]
In new collaborations, tribes become stewards of parks and monuments
In a rural area of Michigan’s Thumb region, a small state park preserves a collection of sandstone carvings that date back many hundreds of years. One of the carvings, a figure with a bow and arrow, symbolizes ancestors shooting their knowledge ahead seven generations. Some might say that arrow landed in 2019. That year, descendants […]