Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park in Washington will temporarily close to the public so removal of the remains of the Hurricane Ridge Day Lodge, which burned to the ground back in May, can be removed.

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of American independence in 1976, the people of Great Britain gave the people of the United States a gigantic bronze and tin bell presented by Queen Elizabeth II in Philadelphia and engraved with the words “Let freedom ring.”

The Stoney Nakoda First Nation believes everything has a living spirit. Maligne Lake in Canada’s Jasper National Park is a very special living entity to them, where the surrounding mountains are physical representations of their ancestors and tiny Spirit Island provides the beating heart for this living lake as well as a venue for their ceremonies and traditions.

Rising out of the low waters of Lake Powell at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area earlier this year was a roughly 180-million-year-old fossilized bone bed that contained remains of mammal-like creatures.