Why did a 70-year-old man head up into the Washakie Wilderness outside Yellowstone National Park knowing that wildlife biologists were trying to capture a grizzly bear? And why did federal authorities ...

Will aspects of Project 2025, a conservative plan for running the federal government, surface during a second Trump administration, and if so, how might it impact national parks and other federal ...

A mountain lion bit a 4-year-old child walking with their family on a popular trail on Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National ...

I remember when my very first Tempestry arrived in the mail. Pulling out the list of instructions, I held the bright, tightly wound balls of yarn in my palm, contemplating the data they would ...

A wildfire fanned by winds gusting to 40 miles per hour destroyed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge and surrounding cabins at Grand Canyon National Park, where the North Rim had been closed to the ...

There is a shrinking potential to increase the amount of official wilderness in the country. The possibilities are waning because of federal agency decisions and congressional opposition or ...

But by far, most of these topographical names are in English, seeing as how they largely were bestowed by the settlers, pioneers, and conquerors in the region. Author Wallace Stegner summed it up when ...

Research in Mammoth Cave in recent years has revealed what scientists say was one of the most diverse shark habitats of its era in North America.

Decades of work to divert grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem from a path toward extinction could be jeopardized in the U.S. House of Representatives, where the iconic bruins will test ...

It was a year ago when a Navy pilot on a training run through a canyon on the west side of Death Valley National Park was killed in a crash that also injured several visitors who had come to watch the ...

Opposition to allowing eBikes on non-motorized trails in the federal lands system has been voiced by dozens of conservation groups, who fear permitting the motorized bikes on those trails will create ...

Wildfires shut down the North Rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona and Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in Colorado.