Nature & Wildlife
What, you may be asking, is an ungulate? You’ve actually known them all along, but perhaps just didn’t know them by their official moniker. Among the ungulates that are native to North America are bighorn sheep, bison, caribou, Dall sheep, mountain goats, moose and white-tailed deer. What do they all have in common?
Canada & the North
The Canadian Rockies have called to me ever since I first visited the region at the tender age of one. My parents had a photo in my childhood home, taken along the Icefields Parkway, that elicited stories of my trip there with them.
Nature & Wildlife
Every February 14th, we celebrate Valentine’s Day, a time that has become synonymous with emotional connections and loving relationships. It’s often marked by romantic gestures, such as giving chocolates or flowers, writing a love letter, preparing a candlelight dinner, holding hands—or kissing.
Nature & Wildlife
Large herbivores—such as bison and elk—have continuously lived in the Yellowstone National Park region for at least 2,300 years, according to a new analysis of chemicals preserved in lake sediments. How have they made their livings and survived for so long?
Nature & Wildlife
Headbutting animals may suffer the same kind of traumatic brain injuries that humans do. By studying them, we could learn how to improve our own brain health.
Travel Tips
When it comes to Yellowstone National Park, it’s all about the numbers. Established in 1872 as America’s first national park and often called an American Serengeti, Yellowstone shelters one of the largest concentrations of wildlife in the contiguous United States, including 300 species of birds and 67 species of mammals.
Travel Tips
So many travelers dream of Yosemite, with its towering waterfalls, the world’s biggest slab of exposed granite, idyllic flower-filled meadows and vast forests with some of the largest trees in North America.
Canada & the North
As you venture forth into the Canadian Rockies, you’ll be entering a realm of turquoise lakes and wildflower meadows. Grand mountains rise into the clouds, and glacier-fed rivers run through deep valleys as you hike through the alpine wilderness.
Nature & Wildlife
Here, looking out from the Anthropocene, we tend to regard nature as something other than ourselves.
Travel Tales
A strange, three-sided, metallic monolith was discovered in an undisclosed spot somewhere in Utah’s canyons during a helicopter survey of bighorn sheep on November 18, 2020. The Utah Department of Public Safety workers who found the object determined that the structure was 10 to 12 feet tall and planted firmly in the ground.
Videos
“Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature’s darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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!
