An Oregon man who brazenly taunted a bison in Yellowstone National Park pleaded guilty to four charges related to his behavior there and in Grand Teton National Park and was ordered to spend 130 days in jail, banned from drinking alcohol or visiting bars, and told to stay out of Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Glacier national parks for five years.

As part of ongoing efforts to monitor the population of grizzly bears and black bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, biologists with the National Park Service and Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team will be conducting scientific grizzly bear and black bear research operations in Yellowstone National Park from August 21 through October 31.

Photographer Rebecca Latson recently completed a 3-week road trip and move from southeast Texas up to central Washington State. During that time, she visited five national parks. In those parks, she saw some pretty stupid stuff such as litter, people driving faster than the posted speed limit, and poor choices in hiking footwear, to name a few things. Rebecca wrote an article of her observations, which are a good reminder for us all to do some planning and be a little more thoughtful of how we treat our national parks as guests.

Fires from Wyoming to Hawaii continue to rage in the National Park System, with thousands of firefighters battling flames that are sending billowing, choking clouds of smoke into some parks and limiting access in others. The Yosemite Valley, Wawona area, and Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias all remained closed in Yosemite National Park on Thursday.