Ranger PamPaw's Park Report

A federal judge halts tree cutting at East Potomac Golf Links in Washington, D.C., and the president announces plans to close and rebuild the course. The Park Service denies Humane Borders' request to maintain water stations at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. And the Park Service proposes letting Anaktuvuk Pass residents use off-road vehicles for subsistence in Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. Plus quick updates on a horse living with a Yellowstone bison herd and the reope...

The Park Service is taking public comment on the Grand Canyon's North Rim and Bent's Old Fort, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation has sent its comments on the triumphal arch, and the Chiricahua National Park Act still awaits a signature. Plus closures, Fat Bear Week, and a Ranger's Chair on Section 106. Corrections: [email protected] Subscribe to Park Report Extra for links and details. https://ranger-pampaw.kit.com/bf11579cf3

A federal judge blocks border wall construction across the Big Bend region, including the national park. Chiricahua National Monument is one signature away from becoming America's 64th national park. And the Interior Department quietly canceled about 130 park partner projects worth nearly $26 million. Plus quick updates on MLB and Grand Teton and the collapse of Hawaiʻi's Hōlei Sea Arch. And from the ranger's chair: what a national park redesignation really changes, and what it doesn't.

A federal pause on border wall construction inside Big Bend National Park expires this week, and it's not the only park unit facing new wall construction. A quiet land deal inside Yosemite is drawing bipartisan opposition in Congress — and MLB wants to build a ballpark inside Grand Teton. Leaked Interior Department documents describe a plan to reorganize how all 430 national park units are run. Plus, from the ranger's chair: why reorganizations handed down from Washington rarely deliver what ...

The first episode of Ranger PamPaw's Park Report. Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly is leaving the National Park Service after nearly eight years running the flagship park. Congress has funded the government through December 11, pushing a nasty park budget fight into the lame-duck session. A second flash flood set back Grand Canyon's water recovery, and the park now says South Rim water returns around Thanksgiving. And the Pretty Rocks bridge in Denali is finally complete, five years afte...