Recreation researchers are studying how to minimize human impact on public lands while maximizing accessibility.

The majority of national park visitors—roughly seventy-eight percent—are white? Why, and why does that need to change?

And how it changed Park Service policy.

Trump's border wall threatens habitats in Arizona's Sonoran Desert. What happened when the area was bulldozed in the 1950s?

Early twentieth-century National Park Service Rangers were a notoriously rough-and-tumble lot.

Temperatures and droughts have spiked at much higher rates in parks than elsewhere.

Researchers in England think connecting British National Parks to the “Internet of Things” could help better protect the national treasures at lower costs with improved experience for nature-lovers.

National parks like Yellowstone are great places to get close to nature, but tourists shouldn't forget that they are also important refuges for wildlife.

There’s no doubt that national parks are good at getting people in touch with the natural world. But how good are they at conserving wildlife?

National parks and monuments have always been controversial, opposed by ranchers, farmers, resource, extractors, and small government conservatives.