National Parks

Applications are open for the park’s artist-in-residence program, which includes housing and a small stipend for supplies.

Wilderness areas are the most stringently protected types of public lands in the U.S. A coalition of Big Bend boosters is pushing for Congress to protect most of the park’s natural areas through a formal wilderness designation.

David Treuer, who grew up on the Ojibwe Leech Lake reservation in Minnesota, says parks were founded on the myth that America was wild in the first place.

It’s estimated that 1 million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute. A few years ago, National Parks decided to try and make a small…