Rule number one when hand-feeding Britain’s only free-ranging reindeer herd is not to touch them. It seems impossible because the charismatic animals nuzzle your cupped hands full of feed with their soft, velvety noses. But you must resist the urge to take things one step further and stroke their furry coats, even as they brush up against you and sniff your pockets.

A hearing Wednesday before the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee will focus on proposed legislation to weaken the Antiquities Act that presidents from both parties have used to establish national monuments.

A U.S. senator from North Dakota, in language attached to the legislation that funds the Interior Department for the rest of the year, is urging the National Park Service to keep wild horses at Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

The possibility of a snowstorm after April 1 can't be ruled out at Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, but the park just the same will be transitioning to its spring season schedule on April 5.