Fat Bear Champ Is Mama Bear Who Defeated Her Cub-Killing Rival
This year's winner was also last year's winner, a huge female named Grazer.
- By justin.housman - October 10th, 2024 2:30am
Meeting The Signal Hill Dog On Canada’s Best Urban Hike
The unofficial ambassador of Signal Hill National Historic Site is basking in the late summer sun and being fawned over by strangers. He's getting pats galore, and even some hugs and kisses, while while posing for too many photos to count.
- By Jennifer Bain - October 9th, 2024 2:30am
Coast Guard Says It's Not Responsible For Hazardous Wastes At Cape Hatteras
U.S. Coast Guard officials say that agency is not responsible for hazardous wastes found at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina that need to be cleaned up.
- By Kurt Repanshek - October 9th, 2024 2:30am
UPDATE | Artists Paintpots In Yellowstone National Park Closed To Public
Quick work involving repairs and improvements to access from the parking lot to the boardwalk allowed the reopening Friday of the Artists Paintpots area of Yellowstone National Park.
- By Kurt Repanshek - October 9th, 2024 2:30am
Newfound Gap Road Across Great Smoky Mountains National Park Open 'Round The Clock
The National Park Service at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is able to keep the Newfound Gap Road open 24 hours a day thanks to assistance from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Government and Sevier County (The Cities of Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Sevierville and the Sevier County Government).
- By Kurt Repanshek - October 9th, 2024 2:30am
Grand Canyon's North Rim And North Kaibab To Begin Fall Prescribed Fire Operations
Fire managers to begin prescribed fire operations on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park and North Kaibab.
- By justin.housman - October 9th, 2024 2:05am
Landslides, Thousands Of Downed Trees, Undercut Roads Along Blue Ridge Parkway
Tens of thousands of downed trees littering roadways and forests. Landslides. Mud slides. Undercut roads. Those are the situations National Park Service crews have found as they worked there way along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina and Virginia.
- By Kurt Repanshek - October 8th, 2024 7:33pm
UPDATE | More National Parks In Florida, Georgia Close As Hurricane Milton Grows
Biscayne and Dry Tortugas national parks were among the latest units of the National Park System that closed to brace for Hurricane Milton, a historically large storm that forecasters say could become "one of the most damaging" hurricanes ever to hit Florida.
- By Kurt Repanshek - October 8th, 2024 1:07pm
Rocky Mountain National Park's Old Fall Road Closed For the Winter
A popular gravel road through Rocky Mountain National Park is closed to vehicles for the winter.
- By justin.housman - October 8th, 2024 2:40am
Big Thicket And Big Cypress National Preserves Celebrate 50 Years
America's first two national preserves, Big Thicket and Big Cypress, turn 50 years old this week.
- By justin.housman - October 8th, 2024 2:30am
