An agreement reached by officials from the Interior Department and the state of Wyoming, if allowed to stand, would make Yellowstone National Park a sanctuary for wolves. Most elsewhere in the state the animals could be shot on sight under the plan.

The National Park Travelers Club, a diverse group of nearly 800 national parks enthusiasts representing almost every state and multiple foreign countries, will hold its 9th annual convention from August 4-9 in Washington, D.C.

A 4-year-old grizzly bear was put down at Yellowstone National Park for a growing history of habituation to humans that was capped when he charged a man along the northern edge of Yellowstone Lake.

A Missouri man who intended to climb the Grand Teton in Grand Teton National Park in one day was killed by a fall of roughly 2,500 feet, according to park officials.