National Park Service

The Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan nonprofit, recently released its annual rankings of the best places to work in the federal government. It found that working at a national park is no picnic.

Black Americans used the Green Book in the mid-1900s to find safe places to travel. Now an organization in the Mountain West is highlighting many of these locations.

The National Park Service is behind on studying 28 potential sites to add to its system. Two of them are in the Mountain West.

Near the end of 2022, the National Park Service purchased 105 acres of land neighboring the City of Rocks National Reserve.

The process of getting Amache under the National Park Service umbrella involved years of effort. It means more funding for preservation in the short term. But no matter who administers the site, everyone involved hopes the survivors – and their stories – stay front and center.

The National Park Service and Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation announced it purchased land in Graham Canyon, expanding the City of Rocks National Reserve. The effort was made possible through a partnership between federal and state agencies - as well as nonprofits and private landlords.

National Park Service locations report how many people visit, how much tourists spend and how many jobs that creates every year. In 2021, those visitors spent more than $20 billion.

National Park Service rangers are being stretched dangerously thin, according to a new report. The advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Policy found that the number of permanent law enforcement officers has dropped 15% since 2005. Seasonal officers are down 30% in the same time period.

Charles F. Sams III would be the 19th director of the National Park Service – and the first Native American to lead the agency.

A renewable energy company is proposing Idaho’s largest wind farm on the desert land in the Magic Valley, and former incarcerees, their family members and the National Park Service are raising concerns about its proximity to the Minidoka Historic Site.