National Parks Traveler

Wolf management plans are faulty because the data they are based on is skewed, according to a study out this week. In researching livestock losses in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and Wisconsin, the authors found that "the percent of livestock killed by wolves never exceeded 0.21 percent for sheep and 0.05 percent for cattle."

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By Kurt Repanshek - October 5th, 2022 2:45am

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In Search Of Wood Buffalo's Northern Lights And Whooping Cranes

Wood Buffalo National Park is Canada's largest national park at 44,807 square kilometres, straddling the border of the Northwest Territories and Alberta. It’s smaller than the U.S.’s largest park, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, but bigger than Switzerland. The park is the world’s largest Dark Sky Preserve and it has a beaver dam so large it’s visible from space.

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By Anonymous - August 1st, 2024 1:24am

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Mystery Photo 67: Thar She Rests

It's big, it's dead, but where is it at rest?

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By Kurt Repanshek - October 5th, 2022 2:30am

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Pollinator Gardens And Other Reasons To Love Fundy National Park

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.

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By Jennifer Bain - August 2nd, 2024 5:55am

Battling The Ocean At Cape Hatteras National Seashore

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.

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By NPT Staff - October 4th, 2022 2:45am

U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service Again Sued Over Mexican Wolf Management Plan

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.