Editor’s note: [i]Is there any other national park like Yellowstone when wildlife “love” seems to be going on in every direction you look in the Fall?

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Editor’s note: Fall is arguably the best time to see, and hear, wildlife in the national parks. From elk bugling in the Rockies — and even the Appalachians — to bird migrations, your options are many for pairing wildlife and a fall park visit, as Contributing writer Danny Bernstein explains.

In the fall, animals and birds prepare for winter.

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Editor’s note: [i]Though Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks are renowned for their hiking opportunities, they also offer expanses of water perfect for wetting a paddle, whether in a canoe or sea kayak.

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National park visitors hoping to spot wildlife in the parks this fall might encounter a disturbing sight: hunters toting their kills through the parks.

While hunting long has served a valuable role both in managing wildlife and getting young and old outdoors, it long has been prohibited in national parks.

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When wolf packs were successfully returned to Yellowstone National Park back in the mid-1990s, they were followed by droves of scientists and researchers keen on learning how the predators might impact the rest of the park’s wild kingdom.

One of the hypotheses that was floated back then, and subsequently supported by research, was that the wolves would be good for th

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Grizzly bear studies in Yellowstone National Park will become a bit more intense in the coming weeks as wildlife biologists head into the backcountry to trap bears and gather data.

The effort marks the 37th consecutive fall that members of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team have gone into the park’s ba

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It has been a long time coming, but the end of the roadwork finally is in sight for a key stretch through Yellowstone National Park.

In August traffic began traveling over the new road alignment through Gibbon Canyon between Norris and Madison Junction and across a new 253-foot bridge over the Gibbon River.

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After much debate, discussion, and consideration, elk culling operations are scheduled to get under way in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in November, when the first of 240 volunteers will be guided into the park’s South Unit with instructions to kill as many cow elk as they can.

There are, as comments to [url=http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2010/08/theodore-r

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Former Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has been appointed to a three-year term on the Board of Trustees of the National Parks Conservation Association, a somewhat curious, and possibly controversial, move in light of his oversight of the national parks.

During his short tenure during the final two years of the Bush administration Mr.

Jim Cole has been on my mind again.

The photo you see here is one I took not long ago a few steps from my computer keyboard. 2010 was to be Cole’s big summer for reaching a wider audience.

Upon hearing of the recent fatal grizzly bear attack in Soda Butte Campground, a U.S.

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