Stepping into Primeval Forest National Park is like entering a time capsule and being transported back to when the Bahamas was covered with tropical forests. Agriculture, the lumber industry and shipbuilding wiped out great tracts of trees, but not these 7.5 acres on New Providence island. “Sprouting from razor-sharp rock and dotted with sinkholes, the forest proved too difficult to traverse and impossible to farm,” interpretive signage explains. “Thus it escaped the ravages of agriculture and development.”

More than 100 bison from Yellowstone National Park were transferred to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana in January, marking the greatest transfer of bison to the tribes so far and bringing to nearly 300 the number of bison that have gone to the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes at the reservation.

National Park Service (NPS) staff were busy assisting hikers in two separate incidents on Sunday, February 5 at Death Valley National Park. Park rangers carried a woman with a broken leg out of Mosaic Canyon and located a man who had separated from his group on Wildrose Peak Trail.

Canada has announced a new policy to help it reach its goal of creating 10 new national marine conservation areas.