In 1938, the National Park Service launched a poster program to increase visits to America’s outdoor sites, from Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon. It hired artists from the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project — created under the New Deal — who produced 14 stylized designs before the program ended a few years later at the onset of World War II.

Capturing scenes of nature in all its wonder, from the monumental eruption of a geyser to textured logs of Petrified Forest, the silk-screened works were serene and idyllic. But these protected regions are now under threat, as a new series of WPA-inspired posters by artist Hannah Rothstein starkly reminds us. Set in the year 2050, her illustrations present our future parks as they may appear if we don’t act against climate change. Rather than the nature walks, field trips, and campfire programs advertised in the original WPA posters, among the delights we may look forward to are disappearing geysers, warming rivers, dying trout, and starving grizzlies.

Such are the sunny outlooks Rothstein has listed in her update of a Yellowstone National Park poster, which is one of two original WPA works she has edited. Five other depressing creations, which reimagine a charred Redwood forest (“Once home to world’s tallest trees”) and an arid Denali/Mount McKinley (“Visit melted permafrost, snowless peaks, & vanished tundra”), are dystopian visions of contemporary posters designed by Ranger Doug’s Enterprises, a company launched by historian and former national park ranger Doug Leen, the self-styled “Ranger of the Lost Art.” Leen began his business by diligently tracking down the original posters, which are dispersed among the Library of Congress’s archives and private collections, and painstakingly restoring them as derivative art — which then led to many national parks requesting that he create posters for them in a similar, WPA-inspired style.

Rothstein’s series (which has received Ranger Doug’s full blessing) arrives amid increasing worry over President Trump’s proposed cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency, which is now run by climate-change denier and IRL Satan Scott Pruitt. While terrifying and pessimistic (although, in this vision of 2050, at least the Park service still exists), her images are especially resonant, illuminating how our actions today — or lack thereof — can have dramatic impact on iconic and irreplaceable landscapes.

I remember thrilling, as a kid, to the envelope illustrations that the magazines I read ran on their letters pages. Not only would some of these readers (usually readers my age, with a lot of time on their hands) go to the trouble of writing and mailing a physical letter to their periodical of choice, they’d actually get as artistic as possible with the envelope as well. Some even did pretty impressive jobs, though as the envelope-illustrators of our time go, few rank up there with the likes of Maurice Sendak.

“This is how Maurice Sendak sometimes sent his letters,” wrote Letters of Note, tweeting out the image above. “Just imagine getting one.” The author of Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen wrote the letter contained in this particular envelope to his fellow children’s book writer-illustrator Nonny Hogrogian, author of One Fine Day and The Contest. Sendak’s close colleagues might have got used to receiving such unconventionally illuminated correspondence, but he also wrote back to each and every one of his young readers, sometimes with similarly prepared correspondence.

President Donald Trump’s repeated weekend jaunts away from Washington have caused nonstop headaches for his South Florida neighbors this winter.

But once his exclusive seaside retreat at Mar-a-Lago closes for the season, Trump is expected to shift his weekend plans north, to his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey — and bring with him all the chaos that comes with being a preferred presidential destination.

“We’re kind of apprehensive, I guess you could say,” said Nick Strakhov, a retired telecommunications professional and longtime resident who serves on the Bedminster land use board. “It’s nice to be recognized. But on the other hand, if it gets to be tedious, we might start to complain.”

Street closures and traffic jams were a big problem last fall across the region when the then-president-elect traveled to Bedminster by motorcade from Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan for a weekend’s worth of interviews with potential Cabinet nominees.