Check out the winter hours and temporary closures for visitor centers at parks in the Southeast Utah Group.

Sacred mounds built thousands of years ago are under threat of erosion next to a changing Mississippi River in Effigy Mounds National Monument.

In the late 1970s, wolf biologist Diane K. Boyd tracked a lone female wolf named Kishinena in country around the North Fork of the Flathead River in Montana. As Doug Chadwick writes in his Foreward to this book, most people think wolves were first introduced in the mid-1990s in Yellowstone National Park, but by that time Diane and her colleagues had been studying them on the North Fork country, in Glacier National Park and surroundings, for well over a decade.

Actor Pierce Brosnan dodged a somewhat hefty fine for walking in a restricted thermal area at Yellowstone National Park, with the federal magistrate fining him $500 while the U.S. Attorney's Office had sought a $5,000 fine plus two years' probation for him.