Denali National Park and Preserve officials have concluded that a man who shot and killed a grizzly bear in the park’s backcountry back in May did so in self-defense and will not be charged with any crime.

The man and his female companion,

Life hasn’t been easy for Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles in recent years, but the ongoing impacts of the oil spill have raised new concerns for the rare animals.

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Bears are a beautiful part of Yosemite. By helping follow a few simple guidelines you help protect them and yourself.

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A North Carolina man who poached one of the grandest bulls in Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s elk herd has been handed jail time and ordered to pay more than $8,300 in restitution to the park.

According to the U.

Ryan happened to be passing through Tuolumne Meadows a few weeks ago and caught these young bucks coming down to the meadow for the evening.

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In a ruling that could be viewed as another indictment of the Bush administration’s management of federal lands in general and national parks specifically, a judge has thrown out rules governing personal watercraft use at Gulf Islands National Seashore and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

The 88-page ruling (attached below) by U.S

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When Theodore Roosevelt National Park officials move forward this fall with a plan to reduce the park’s elk population, they’ll need professional meat packers to get the elk carcasses out of the park.

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This is just so wrong on so many counts.

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Calm is returning to the Norris Campground in Yellowstone National Park, where rangers have moved a young grizzly who had been roaming the campground to a zoo.

On the brink of the July Fourth holiday weekend, park rangers had banned visitors with tents and pop-up trailers from the campground because two young grizzlies were in the area.

Just in time for the peak summer season, a video has been produced to teach visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park how to be safe in bear country.

Developed by the Great Smoky Mountains Association with financial support through the National Parks Foundation, the 6-minute video explai

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