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A Disease Becomes a Stigma Among the obstacles to allowing Yellowstone bison to migrate freely in and out of the park, as they would do naturally, is that some exhibit [...]

A Region in Transition You can still catch a rodeo in the region around Yellowstone. Ranchers still gather at saloons to two-step on Saturday night. And the sight of a [...]

The Hoof Is the Heart In spring hoofbeats return to the mountains of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Pronghorn, North America's land-speed champions, migrate more than a hundred miles from the [...]

The Struggle Has Been Worth It In the early 20th century cougars and wolves were both eliminated from Yellowstone (and wolves were practically eradicated from the lower 48 states). Now [...]

An Awesome Past, a Looming Presence If you were to look only at Yellowstone's terraces of cool travertine (left) or at the geysers and hot springs that persuaded Congress to [...]

The motto Congress gave Yellowstone, sometimes called the People's Park, sounds straightforward. It isn't. Capacity Crowds--Bigger Footprint In 2015 the number of visitors to Yellowstone--including repeats--exceeded four million for the [...]

During the late 1980s, when billionaire media mogul Ted Turner went hunting for a ranch, he found his Shangri-la near the outskirts of Bozeman: the Flying D Ranch, a historic [...]

On a recent afternoon at Badlands National Park in South Dakota, a prairie dog colony comes to life. Jittery prairie dog sentinels stand on their hind legs, bleating warnings that [...]

Soon, at national parks across the country, the rarest treasures may not be the beloved wildlife, scenic wonders, and historic artifacts, but rather the special people who safeguard them. Imagine [...]

Looking east, into the first blush of dawn, biologists and citizen volunteers drive all-terrain-vehicles down the shoreline of Padre Island, Texas. They've come to find evidence of hope leading out […]

Considered functionally extinct at the beginning of the 20th century, beavers have made a dramatic comeback across the United States and Canada--good news for beavers as well as other species. [...]

At Clingmans Dome, the highest overlook accessible by car in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Keith Langdon, supervisory biologist, is listening intently as a group of visitors ponders a question: [...]

Early one morning, an 11-year-old grizzly bear mother known as Bear #264 wanders the steamy, geothermal flanks of Roaring Mountain with her two cubs. As Kerry Gunther, Yellowstone National Park's [...]

When Thomas Jefferson sent young Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery to survey the lands beyond the Mississippi, the West was terra incognita. Some believed the explorers [...]

In its 86-year history, the National Park Service (NPS) has borrowed many ideas from the U.S. military: The classic, 19th-century soldier uniform originated with the cavalry's occupation of Yellowstone in [...]

When President Bush took office last year, Rep. Jim Hansen (R-Utah) greeted him with an eight-page memo. It outlined an agenda to 'correct the misguided direction' of the Clinton administration [...]

IN THE BLOCKBUSTER Disney film The Lion King, nature is presented as a 'circle of life' in which animals coexist blissfully. Everybody gets along. Hakuna matata. In the real world [...]

This article discusses the economic and environmental benefits of wildfire management. Topics include wildland-urban interface, watershed management, and public-private partnership.

Developing a fundamentally sound swing with the help of a batting tee The batting tee has become the ultimate practice tool with which to develop a fundamentally sound baseball swing. [...]

Should grizzly bears at Yellowstone National Park be removed from federal protection? With only two significant grizzly populations remaining south of Canada, that question has sparked a national debate. At [...]

Private enterprises will be allowed to collect micro-organisms that thrive in Yellowstone's geothermal pools under the terms of a novel scientific contract. The agreement allows the federal government to license [...]

High in the remote, glacial draws of Rocky Mountain National Park, Marsha Lutz is searching for two biological needles in a large haystack. Trudging through one creek drainage and into [...]

Not long after sunrise on February 13, 1996, a fleet of county bulldozers, road graders, and dump trucks rumbled into Capitol Reef National Park in Utah. Before shocked park rangers [...]

Got snow? Four goddesses of the freshies tell you what to do with it. Telemark A Different Breed It would be safe to call Kasha Rigby a darling of American [...]

For those who hunt trophy deer, these are the Promised Lands: 16 overlooked and underutilized tracts of public property where an average hunter can do better than average. Some of […]

The bison are relics from the past, and the wolves know no fear. Welcome to Wood Buffalo National Park, where time stands still and the land shrugs off man's attempts [...]

Congress is wrangling over a massive, yet little-known, transportation bill that could have far-reaching effects on national parks. Hailed as a breakthrough when it was first enacted six years ago, [...]

When President Clinton used the Antiquities Act to declare Grand Staircase-Escalante a national monument he reignited the controversy surrounding Utah's wildlands and the powers granted by the act For more [...]

As many as 200 snakes a night were being smuggled out of Big Bend National Park. An undercover operation led to 30 arrests and exposed a growing problem in the [...]

I never dreamed that doing something good for my body could put me in so much pain. One spring a couple of years ago, while attempting to stay in shape […]

The last time a California condor was seen soaring above the Grand Canyon, Calvin Coolidge occupied the White House and Paris was hosting the eighth summer Olympic Games. Although more [...]

The pronouncement came from a group of global leaders most people had never heard of--yet it resonated across the Atlantic. A few weeks before Christmas, the World Heritage Committee, an [...]

Not long after Wood opened his Collectors Covey gallery in 1978, Quinn phoned him and lectured him about the quality of the art he was selling. Wood called Matia and berated him for producing an edition of just seven bronzes. "The importance of Ray's presence in Bubba's life cannot be overestimated", says master wildlife art painter Thomas Quinn. In addition to supporting conservation through the purchase price of the art itself, Wood has reminded me several times over the years that art is a way of declaring our values. [Extracted from the article]

IN HIS HAND, the director clutched a script calling for Mister Spock to beam down to planet Vulcan. But a logistical problem loomed for the technical crew of the Star [...]