Yellowstone restricts fishing on many rivers and creeks
Michigan: What’s the benefit of shuttering campgrounds?
There is a push to bigger and better — such as large motor homes for camping and deep-sea charter boats for fishing — that not all residents of and visitors to our state embrace.
Arizona: Forest Service budget cuts threaten campgrounds
The Mount Graham campgrounds and picnic areas are in danger, but this time they are not being threatened by fire but by the possibility of being closed to the public.
Montana: 2007 strikingly similar to 2003 fire season
In Glacier National Park, about 135,620 acres burned in 2003 in six separate fires. The largest was the Robert Fire. The only human caused-blaze of the bunch, Robert burned about 39,400 acres in the Park.
Two Montana grizzly bears headed to Colorado zoo
HELENA - Two male grizzly bears at the state wildlife shelter here have been sent to live at a Colorado zoo, the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks said Wednesday.
Colorado: Rocky Mountain National Park visits jump
June visits to Rocky Mountain National Park jumped almost 15,000 from the same time last year. Close to a half million people, 489,238, visited the Park in June. This compares to 474,265 over the same time period in 2006. Nearly a million people, 987,693, have visited the Park in the first six months of 2007. This is up from 952,246 through the first six months of 2006.
Utah: Wildfire burns through campground, motel
NEPHI, Utah - A group of Boy Scouts and hikers had to be airlifted from a canyon as a wildfire swept through a campground and destroyed a nearby motel, authorities said Friday.