With Peregrine falcons approaching their nesting season, some climbing routes in Zion National Park in Utah will be closed beginning March 1 until later this year.
Yellowstone National Park staff never was able to recover a drone that crashed into Grand Prismatic Spring back in 2014. And Yosemite National Park investigators were unable last year to find a drone pilot whose aircraft forced a park helicopter to land out of safety concerns. What if those who illegally fly their drones in parks are banned from the parks for life?
One of the most sought-after photos that Zion National Park visitors hope to head home with is a great sunset shot of the Virgin River as it heads south past the Watchman. Rebecca Latson can go home happy.
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The trail to Angels Landing in Zion National Park in Utah was closed Tuesday morning as authorities tried to figure out where along the trail a woman fell to her death.
Fortunately offsetting the relative flatlining of the National Park Service's budget is the infusion of dollars raised by nonprofit friends groups such as the Zion Natl Park Forever Project, which has made an investment of roughly $1 million in Zion National Park and Cedar Breaks and Pipe Spring national monuments this past year.
No one writes today about the Colorado Plateau and the American Southwest with the eloquence and insight of Craig Childs. With his five books about this region he joins Mary Austin, Joseph Wood Krutch, Ann Zwinger, Ed Abbey, and Terry Tempest Williams in describing and celebrating the natural and cultural heritages of this region.
A pregnant cow elk was poached inside Zion National Park, possibly as recently as this past Saturday, when the government shutdown left national parks with skeleton staffs.
Soaring high overhead, circling upwards on thermals that lift wings spanning nearly 10 feet from tip to tip, California condors are one of the world's rarest birds. And while humans have helped immensely to recover their populations, humans also are standing in the way of recovery.
While visiting Arches and Canyonlands National Parks over New Year, contributing photographer and writer Rebecca Latson had a chance to sit down and talk to Kate Cannon, Superintendent of the Southeast Utah Group. During their conversation, they discussed such things as favorite park spots to agency cooperation regarding oil and gas leasing outside of park boundaries to the power of a personal visit to a national park.
It's not a pretty job, as they say, but it's got to be done. And so Angels Landing and the West Rim Trail at Zion National Park will be closed in the days ahead so human waste can be flown out of those areas.