From the loss of the passenger pigeon, perhaps the most lamented extinction case in the United States, to the writing off of the Kaua’i nukupu’u, a Hawaiian forest bird vanished for more than a century and just recently officially declared extinct, the disappearance of species whittles away at the country's biodiversity and attachment to nature.

More than 25,000 sea turtle hatchlings made it from their mothers' nests to the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Hatteras National Seashore this year.

In an effort to better manage visitation Rocky Mountain National Park officials are proposing to make permanent timed-entry programs used on a trial basis the past three years.

A traffic collision occurred when a Swiss couple in a rented camper van braked suddenly for a tarantula on CA-190 in Death Valley National Park.