Wolf hunters, some possibly using AR-15 style semiautomatic rifles, have so decimated wolf populations outside Denali National Park in Alaska that the state has shut down hunting and trapping in areas adjacent to the park.
They were not supposed to be there, but they were: More than 100 brown-hooded, white-breasted seabirds, along with four nests, at chilly Channel Islands National Park off California's coast. This was not balmy Baja California, which normally is the northern-most range for tropics-loving Brown boobies, but rather a windswept chain of islands with average high temperatures in the mid-60s and water temperatures in the 50s.
Six million wild acres, a mountain that tests the world's best mountaineers, and a landscape that can reach deep into your heart with its character are phrases that help define Denali National Park and Preserve, but it can take a lifetime to truly understand and appreciate this place.
Some Ohio politicians, indignant that President Obama would rename Mount McKinley in Denali National Park and Preserve to Mount Denali, want President Trump to change it back. Never mind that President William McKinley never set foot in Alaska and that Alaskans were all for the name change.
With climbing season ramping up on Denali in Denali National Park and Preserve, rangers are being pressed into action to help climbers who either have an accident or come down with illness on the mountain that rises 20,310 feet into the sky.
The application period for the 2017 road lottery program at Denali National Park and Preserve will open May 1. The road lottery takes place in September and allows up to 400 cars per day to be on the western portion of the park road, which is usually closed to most private vehicles.
Every February, the community comes to Denali National Park and Preserve to celebrate all things winter at the aptly named Winterfest, but this year’s festivities will also serve as the 100th birthday party for the Alaska park on February 25 and 26.
A long-promised study of workplace harassment has gotten under way across the National Park System with an optional survey asking employees "to assess the prevalence of sexual harassment and other forms of harassment and retaliation in our workforce..."