Travel Tales
“Most stories begin one of two ways,” book author and immersion journalist Ted Conover once said. “A stranger comes to town, or the hero leaves home. Either way, they tend to go by road. The road contains the excitement of the unexpected.
U.S. National Parks
John Muir revered them. Western settlers nearly wiped them out. The final chapter in the story of North America’s rarest sheep is yet to be written. Watch!
Conservation
The dangers of sharing wildlife photos on social media have been known since at least 2014: the geotags in your shared snapshots can lead poachers to their prey. Even in our national parks, sharing photos of wildlife sightings in real time can create mobs of people that stress wildlife.
Nature & Wildlife
It’s the day after New Year’s, and we’re just entering into 2018. In Times Square last night, according to the Associated Press, it was the second-coldest New Year’s celebration on record. The temperature was only 10 degrees Fahrenheit in New York City at midnight.
Conservation
Conflict between wolves and ranchers is just about as old as, well, as there have been ranchers in the West. Wolves were nearly hunted, poisoned and trapped to extinction in the Lower 48 a few decades ago, due in part to the threat they posed to livestock.
Nature & Wildlife
The largest wild cat in North America, the mountain lion—also known as a catamount, cougar, panther and puma—has powerful limbs and can leap as high as 15 feet and as far as 40 feet. That makes it an expert at attacking prey from behind. It also tends to make hikers in mountain lion territory wary.
Videos
Although prominently featured on the California flag, a wild grizzly bear hasn’t been seen in the state since the 1920s. In the early 1800s, about 50,000 grizzlies roamed between the Pacific Ocean and the Great Plains. In California alone, before the Gold Rush (1848–1858), there were probably 10,000 grizzlies.
News & More
The United States has officially left the Paris Agreement on climate change, the 2015 pact in which more than 150 nations pledged to curb greenhouse gas emissions and support the plans of poor countries in developing clean energy and protections against climate-related disasters.
News & More
Today is the Fourth of July, the day we celebrate the founding of the United States and all the things that make our nation unique.
News & More
Going rogue. Since 1835, that phrase has been used to describe elephants that exhibit violent behavior, whether through injury or from being separated from their herd. Decades later, when applied to humans, the term came to denote conduct that was erratic or dangerous.
News & More
Traditionally, throughout the world on New Year’s Eve, we all join in the singing of “Auld Lang Syne.” The song, whose title roughly translates as “for old times’ sake,” is appropriate for the end of the year because it evokes nostalgia for the past and a longing to preserve longtime friendships.
Conservation
Just about a year ago, on June 8, 2015, the carmaker Subaru of America Inc. and the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) announced a partnership.
