Essays
Get started on your national park journey by perusing our extensive archive of essays. Whether you want to be a park ranger, learn more about rangers and parks, or cultivate a wilder life, we have an essay that will help.
Parks
Rights are not won and then forever granted. Every generation will have to fight for its rights anew. That work is a gift, not a burden.
The US Secretary of the Interior recently ordered more federal lands to be opened for hunting. Here's why hunting would harm national parks.
The Trump Administration removed an exhibit about slavery from a national park site. The public outrage should inspire all of us to hope.
In the last year, America’s public lands have been under attack from the Trump Administration, but now finally some good news.
Both American democracy and America's national parks have received catastrophic wounds this past year. Can they heal?
America’s public lands have the popularity President Trump wishes he had. Here are five ways they are more popular than him and his policies.
Wild Living
The Trump Administration removed an exhibit about slavery from a national park site. The public outrage should inspire all of us to hope.
Travel, novel experiences, and nature have all been shown by science to have a beneficial impact on our mental health.
The Trump Administration is trying to censor history, but they are fighting against human nature. Science explains why.
Research has shown that in a mature forest plants don't compete: they collaborate. We must learn to share like forests do.
The Trump Administration wants to eliminate hundreds of America's national historical and cultural parks. Here's why.
Trans Americans are Americans. Their stories should be included in NPS history, and, until recently, they were.