/tags/national-parks National Parks en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:16:53 GMT /texasstandard/2024-12-12/big-bend-park-artist-residence-program-2025 Applications are open for the park’s artist-in-residence program, which includes housing and a small stipend for supplies. Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:16:53 GMT /texasstandard/2024-12-12/big-bend-park-artist-residence-program-2025 Alexandra Hart /energy-environment/2022-05-02/in-far-west-texas-conservationists-revive-a-decades-old-push-for-a-big-bend-wilderness-designation 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. Mon, 02 May 2022 13:28:01 GMT /energy-environment/2022-05-02/in-far-west-texas-conservationists-revive-a-decades-old-push-for-a-big-bend-wilderness-designation AGÕæÈË°Ù¼ÒÀÖ Bubenik /energy-environment/2021-04-19/scholar-says-giving-national-parks-to-native-tribes-would-be-noble-way-of-reckoning-with-injustice 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. Mon, 19 Apr 2021 21:10:44 GMT /energy-environment/2021-04-19/scholar-says-giving-national-parks-to-native-tribes-would-be-noble-way-of-reckoning-with-injustice Laura Rice, Caroline Covington /energy-environment/2017-08-21/trump-administration-throws-out-anti-littering-policy-for-national-parks 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 smallâ€� Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:01:00 GMT /energy-environment/2017-08-21/trump-administration-throws-out-anti-littering-policy-for-national-parks Mose Buchele