Editor’s Note: This story accompanies the May 2016 issue of National Geographic ... ranch overlooks the park. Elk, bison, wolves, and grizzly bears migrate across his land, and he makes part ...

Editor’s Note: This story accompanies the May 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... a comprehensive atlas of maps to inform public and private land managers. Middleton likes to compare ...

More than a century after their founding, national parks are still a reminder that we can all come together over the things we love most.

In 1904, the Mallorys, a local family, donated a small slice of waterfront property to the government on the condition that the land be used for park purposes ... one of four national parks ...