National Park Service

Grand Canyon National Park officials this weekend will again implement mandatory water conservation measures as storage tanks on the South Rim are not refilling at a sustainable rate. Park officials had lifted the restrictions earlier this week.

More than 96% of the Coconino County monument qualifies under the Wilderness Act of 1964.

Visitation to Arizona’s national parks and monuments dropped dramatically during the first year of the pandemic, but a federal report shows the numbers are climbing again. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny reports.

Officials at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area are now requiring personal flotation devices to be worn by those using hand-propelled watercraft on the stretch of Colorado River between Glen Canyon Dam and Lees Ferry.

About 4.5 million visitors to Grand Canyon National Park spent an estimated $710 million in 2021 in nearby gateway communities in northern Arizona.

The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture plans to return the ancient remains of more than two dozen Indigenous people to local tribes. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the bone fragments were unearthed in downtown Santa Fe underneath the Palace of the Governors.

The National Park Service says a plan to increase backcountry access at Wupatki National Monument won’t have major effects on the natural, cultural and human environment.

Authorities say a barrel carrying human remains has been discovered in Lake Mead. Boaters spotted the barrel Sunday afternoon and the National Park Service was alerted.

The Tunnel Fire burned through Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument and headed north toward the edge of Wupatki National Monument, through a woodland of pinyon-juniper trees. That region experienced a dramatic die-off of junipers in the last few years. Before the fire, National Park Service staff partnered with NASA to map the dead trees using satellite images. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny spoke with ecologist Nicole Ramberg-Pihl, a member of the NASA team, about their findings.

A permit is now required to hike the popular Angels Landing trail at Zion National Park