If weather and equipment cooperate, wildlife biologists will begin counting mountain goats in Olympic National Park and the neighboring Olympic National Forest next week.

Is the "barefoot" running craze for you? Check out this review of Merrill's entry in the market.

This interesting pattern is indeed man-made, and you can find it if you travel to eastern North Carolina.

It may be true, as the poet Robert Frost told us, that "Good fences make good neighbors," but park officials at Gettysburg National Military Park have a corollary to that famous line: good fences make good history. A fence in the wrong place, however, usually leads to trouble.