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.

Authorities on Sunday were trying to determine the identification of a woman whose body was found in Arches National Park in Utah.

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.

A new species of Triassic reptile discovered at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has been named after the park's former superintendent and his wife.