It’s not a showy garden, or even very colorful, but it is a critically important one that helps migrating monarch butterflies, at-risk yellow-banded bumblebee and other less glamorous pollinators find food.
Barrier islands by their very nature are susceptible to the whims of oceans, and at Cape Hatteras National Seashore it's an ongoing battle, as these phots from the North Carolina Department of Transportation show.
Another lawsuit has been filed against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with claims that the agency has failed to develop a sound management plan for recovering Mexican gray wolves, an endangered species, in the Southwest.
With a theatrical flourish, Parks Canada interpretation officer Katrina Sock wraps something long, thin, brown and white around her arm to demonstrate how the Mi’kmaq people once dealt with broken bones.
If you're heading to Acadia National Park in Maine to take in the fall colors this month, you might encounter road work that could slow you down or limit where you can drive.
With Hurricane Ian having dissipated, most parks that were in the storm's path have either fully reopened, or were slowly ramping back up, although some in Florida were still closed Sunday.
The gate on the ten-foot-tall fence opened easily, and inside the wire exclosure the willows were even taller. Beyond the wall of leaves and branches were the sounds of rushing water, backed up by a complex of beaver dams, cascading down, hidden beneath the brush. The beavers were back.