Oct 01 2024
Voyageurs National Park is a landscape of water, islands, forests, wetlands, and rocky shorelines along the Minnesota–Canada border. Its interconnected lakes and boreal forests provide habitat for an impressive range of northern wildlife, including gray wolves, moose, black bears, beavers, river otters, white-tailed deer, bald eagles, common loons, and dozens of fish species. Wildlife watching …
Sep 30 2024
Theodore Roosevelt National Park is one of the best wildlife-watching destinations on the northern Great Plains. Across the rugged Badlands of western North Dakota, American bison graze beside prairie dog towns, mule deer disappear into juniper draws, coyotes hunt across open grassland, and golden eagles circle high above eroded buttes. The park’s wildlife diversity comes …
Sep 29 2024
Saguaro National Park may be named for its towering cactus forests, but the wildlife living among those saguaros is every bit as fascinating. Javelinas travel through desert washes, coyotes hunt across cactus-covered slopes, bobcats move quietly along rocky canyons, roadrunners race after lizards, Gila woodpeckers excavate homes inside saguaros, and desert tortoises emerge when temperature …
Sep 29 2024
Redwood National Park is famous for containing some of the tallest trees on Earth, but the ancient forests of Northern California protect much more than giant redwoods. Roosevelt elk graze in coastal prairies, black bears wander through forests and river valleys, marbled murrelets fly between the Pacific Ocean and old-growth trees, and banana slugs slowly …
Sep 28 2024
Petrified Forest National Park may be best known for brilliantly colored petrified wood and the striped badlands of the Painted Desert, but the park also protects a surprisingly rich community of living wildlife. Pronghorn move across open grasslands, coyotes hunt along washes, golden eagles soar over the badlands, and colorful collared lizards bask on sun-warmed …
Sep 28 2024
The Hoh Rain Forest is one of Olympic National Park’s most unforgettable landscapes, a place where enormous Sitka spruce and western hemlock rise above carpets of ferns while moss hangs from bigleaf maples in long green curtains. Rain, mild temperatures, old-growth trees, and the constantly moving Hoh River combine to create one of the finest …
Sep 28 2024
North Cascades National Park protects one of the wildest mountain landscapes in the contiguous United States, and its wildlife reflects that ruggedness. Black bears forage in forests and avalanche chutes, mountain goats traverse cliffs that appear almost impossible to climb, hoary marmots whistle from subalpine meadows, and pikas disappear among high-elevation talus slopes. Some of …
Sep 28 2024
Grizzly bears once occupied the North Cascades for thousands of years, moving through river valleys, berry-covered mountain slopes, avalanche chutes, subalpine meadows, and remote wilderness stretching across what is now Washington and British Columbia. By the twentieth century, however, decades of trapping, hunting, bounty programs, and other human pressures had reduced their numbers to the …
Sep 26 2024
Mount Rainier National Park is best known for its enormous glacier-covered volcano, but the mountain is also the center of a remarkably diverse wildlife ecosystem. Black bears forage in forests and berry-filled meadows, elk move through valleys and open slopes, hoary marmots whistle from rocky meadows, and mountain goats navigate cliffs high above the park’s …
Sep 24 2024
Mount Rainier National Park is one of the finest places in the Pacific Northwest to see summer wildflowers. Each year, as deep mountain snow finally retreats, subalpine meadows burst into color beneath the enormous glacier-covered volcano. Lupines, paintbrush, avalanche lilies, bistort, asters, monkeyflowers, and dozens of other species transform slopes that may have been buried …
