As National Park Service Director Chuck Sams prepared to leave office, he spoke with USA TODAY about everything from representation to reservations.

Donald Trump has once again proposed a national sculpture garden that would honor well-known figures of American history, ...

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Hot on the heels of the President Trump's proposal to shrink protected national monuments across the country, the Trump ...

At age 12, he donated some of them – a dozen mice, a bat, a turtle, four birds' eggs and the skull of a red squirrel – to the American Museum of Natural History. Eleven years later ...

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National Park Service Director Chuck Sams made history on day one in office in ... I'm most proud of the investments that we've made in parks, in their infrastructure, across all 50 states ...