Tag: National Park Service

L.A.'s mountain lions become more nocturnal to avoid people. Does it come at a cost?

Griffith Park’s late celebrity mountain lion P-22 took the night shift to avoid hordes of hikers, bikers and dawdlers who frequented his...

Yosemite's Wawona Hotel, age 168, will close indefinitely for 'intensive' checkup

Yosemite National Park’s historic Wawona Hotel is closing, and park officials are not saying when it will reopen. The hotel’s workers are...

Wildfire in Great Smoky Mountains National Park grows: Here's what we know

The National Park Service has announced the arrival of additional resources to assist in battling a wildfire burning near Hannah Mountain on the...

Cold water shots into the Colorado River slow a bass invasion in the Grand Canyon

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK — A shot of cold water from Glen Canyon Dam appears to have stalled a smallmouth bass invasion of...

Utah's Famed 'Double Arch,' Made Of 190-Million-Year-Old Navajo Sandstone, Collapses

Prior to its collapse, rocks had fallen off the Double Arch and into the water below, with the resulting splashes captured video.“I looked over,...

Large geological feature known as the 'Double Arch' and the 'Toilet Bowl' collapses in southern Utah

PAGE, Ariz. (AP) — A large geological feature in southern Utah known as the “Double Arch,” the “Hole in the Roof” and sometimes...