With its home territory squeezed hard up against the northern boundary of Yellowstone National Park, the Phantom Lake wolf pack ran into a slaughterhouse when it roamed into southern Montana.

Whether the National Park Service needs to develop a formal beach management plan at Padre Island National Seashore in Texas that would govern sand management, beach driving, and wildlife management for some species is under consideration.

Stepping into Primeval Forest National Park is like entering a time capsule and being transported back to when the Bahamas was covered with tropical forests. Agriculture, the lumber industry and shipbuilding wiped out great tracts of trees, but not these 7.5 acres on New Providence island. “Sprouting from razor-sharp rock and dotted with sinkholes, the forest proved too difficult to traverse and impossible to farm,” interpretive signage explains. “Thus it escaped the ravages of agriculture and development.”

More than 100 bison from Yellowstone National Park were transferred to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana in January, marking the greatest transfer of bison to the tribes so far and bringing to nearly 300 the number of bison that have gone to the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes at the reservation.