The Border Patrol said money that surfaced last week that appeared to be headed toward building a border wall in the Big Bend area will not be used for that purpose. https://buff.ly/YdZVGNm

Almost half of this year's "Most Endangered Historic Places" in the US under USNPS jurisdiction or closely linked to it. https://buff.ly/EdAO3zq

The state of Colorado has renamed two geographical features that were named for a soldier who helped carry out the Sand Creek Massacre, now commemorated as an NHS. https://buff.ly/vCmJzkj

Overcoming fierce opposition from environmentalists, Trump's pick to lead USBLM, Steve Pearce, won Senate confirmation. https://buff.ly/Orr5Pj2

A gray wolf that has been tracked wandering through southern California showed up in Sequoia-Kings Canyon NPs — the first time in over a century that a wolf has been spotted there. https://buff.ly/L4RJ80n

Indigenous leaders are alarmed that Trump's border wall construction is defiling sacred sites in the way. https://buff.ly/3hBJiIG

Yosemite NP is already seeing big crowds, and, with the park's reservation system canceled by Trump, advocates see chaos likely coming in the high summer season. https://buff.ly/jUhled6

A group of over 150 scientists has sent a letter to Congress calling on it to halt efforts to jettison Grand Staircase-Escalante NMon's management plan. https://buff.ly/UfTeD

Trump has selected an existing park site in DC for his "Garden of American Heroes." https://buff.ly/gO5Q88h

Reports are circulating that the so-called Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention camp inside Big Cypress NPres will be closing next month. https://buff.ly/KUQwCCv

A new study finds that marine life on the seabed of a Scottish MPA has rebounded a decade after a bottom-trawling ban was instituted. https://buff.ly/y9943jP