Camp kids help fight spotted lanternfly
Associated Press
August 15, 2018
As part of a week that included hiking, kayaking and swimming, campers were given a primer on the insect from Asia.
National Park Service
Scientists continue battle to save bats from mysterious disease
Associated Press
July 30, 2018
QUANTICO, Va. — When the sun sets and nearby Marines wind down for the evening, Sam Freeze suits up and goes bat hunting. Six nights a week in the summer, the doctoral student at
Yellowstone effort to eradicate lake trout shows progress
Associated Press
July 23, 2018
The effort against the lake trout is the centerpiece of a long-term fight to help Yellowstone’s native cutthroat trout. Lake trout feed on cutthroats, causing the native fish population to decline.
Officials: Yellowstone superintendent shuffle shouldn’t sidetrack bison quarantine effort
Associated Press
June 19, 2018
BOZEMAN, Mont. — The impending change in Yellowstone National Park superintendents shouldn’t disrupt the progress of a quarantine program created to produce brucellosis-free bison, officials said. The transfer of a group of bull bison to
Third-generation National Park Service employee goes from reintroducing Isle Royale wolves to new Yellowstone boss
Associated Press
June 15, 2018
Cam Sholly replaces Dan Wenk, who said he was being forced out by the Trump administration following a dispute over bison.
U.S. officials OK plan to rebuild Isle Royale wolf population
Associated Press
June 11, 2018
With wolves dying out, federal officials announce plan to relocate 20-30 from the mainland to the Lake Superior archipelago over the next several years, starting as early as this fall.
Interior Department allots more than $250 million for national park infrastructure projects
Staff and News Reports
June 7, 2018
Includes project at Valley Forge National Historical Park in Pennsylvania and New York’s Statue of Liberty National Monument.
Yellowstone boss to retire rather than face possible reassignment, dismisses ‘politics’ speculation
Associated Press
June 6, 2018
BILLINGS, Mont. — Yellowstone National Park’s superintendent said that he plans to retire next year from a job he called “the best in the National Park Service” and dismissed speculation that the Trump administration pushed
Interior moves to lift restrictions on controversial hunting methods in Alaska
Associated Press
May 23, 2018
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is moving to reverse Obama-era rules barring hunters on some public lands in Alaska from baiting brown bears with bacon and doughnuts and using spotlights to shoot mother black bears
