The annual Bridge Day event each October draws thousands of spectators and hundreds of BASE jumpers to New River Gorge National River. Four jumpers who decided to conduct an unauthorized nighttime leap from the famous bridge last week were apprehended and face a variety of charges.

The diminutive Cascade fox, which is though to live only at Mount Rainier and Mount Adams, has developed a nasty habit of begging from visitors to Mount Rainier National Park.

A California congressman has dusted off a nearly century-old law in a bid to see the Hetch Hetchy Valley of Yosemite National Park drained and restored.