I'm Jason Epperson. This is the America's National Parks podcast and it's time for this month's National Park News Roundup.

First up a couple of vandalism incidents at National Parks. Law enforcement Rangers at Lake Mead National Recreation

Area are seeking information from the public to help identify suspects who were caught on video

posted on X by user Las Vegas locally.

In it, two adult males are seeing toppling natural rock formations from the top of a cliff on the Redstone Dunes Trail.

In the footage from April 7th, a man in a long sleeve red shirt and another man in a black

t-shirt stand atop a rock formation. They dislodge and shove boulders over the edge

while a frightened girl pleads with her father not to fall. Lake Mead officials

shared images of the perpetrators defacing the rocks on social media and

requested information about the pair. If you have information that could help identify

the suspects you can contact investigators and tips can be anonymous.

The National Park Servicewide tip line is 888653009 or online you can go to NPS.gov slash submit a tip.

At Yosemite National Park a visitor caught the aftermath of a gender reveal party

in a photo and posted it to Reddit. In the photo the snow on the ground

below Yosemite's towering cliffs is covered in a pink substance.

According to USA Today, three Americans are suing the National Park Service over some park locations no longer accepting cash payments for entry.

The plaintiffs from California, New York, and Georgia filed the lawsuit in early March in federal court in Washington, D.C.

The lawsuit says the Park Service's policy violates a US law that says that coins and currency are legal tender for all debts,

public charges, taxes, and dues.

Thus, the National Park Service's refusal to accept US currency, tendered for entrance fees, constitutes a

clear violation of federal law, says the lawsuit obtained by USA Today. The lawsuit

says that 29 National Park Service sites throughout the country don't accept cash as payment to enter including Suwaro National Park, the Roosevelt Vanderbilt National Historic site, and the Fort Pulaski National Historic Site.

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