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Olympic’s Sol Duc Falls Temporarily Closed To Recover Body Of Man Who Fell Into The Waterfall

Bram — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:54:42 +0000

The Sol Duc Falls area is closed while the Olympic National Park Search and Rescue (SAR) Team prepares to recover the body of an 18-year-old man who fell over the 50’ waterfall on June 8, Olympic National Park management said in a press release. A park ranger located a completely submerged body pinned between the...

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Things Are Lining Up to Repeat the Environmental Movement of the 1960s-70s in the 2020s-30s

Bram — Thu, 22 May 2025 19:50:42 +0000

The environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s marked a dramatic shift in public awareness about the relationship between humans and the natural world. Driven by a confluence of scientific discoveries, social activism, political change, and visible ecological disasters, the movement reshaped national policy, fostered widespread ecological consciousness, and laid the groundwork for modern environmentalism....

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2025 Many Glacier Day Hiker Shuttle Details Released

Bram — Fri, 16 May 2025 20:04:18 +0000

As a construction project restricts vehicle access to Many Glacier this summer, Glacier National Park has set up shuttle service to transport day hikers into this popular area. In a statement, Glacier National Park announced it’s temporarily offering a Many Glacier Day Hiker Shuttle as a way for day hikers to access Many Glacier Valley...

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Food-Conditioned Grizzly Bear Killed in Yellowstone National Park

Bram — Thu, 15 May 2025 21:39:55 +0000

A food-conditioned grizzly bear was trapped and killed by Yellowstone National Park staff, the park said in a press release. This comes approximately a week after grizzly 1058 was killed by a car in Grand Teton National Park and just a couple of days after two yearling grizzly cubs died from predation by a grizzly...

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UPDATE | Two Grizzly Bear Cubs Found Dead in Grand Teton National Park

Bram — Wed, 14 May 2025 18:11:47 +0000

This story is updated with a report that grizzly bear 1063 has been reunited with her third cub. Barely a week after grizzly 1058, one of the famous quadruplets of 399, was killed by a car in Grand Teton National Park, the park said in a press release that rangers found the bodies of two...

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Mount Rainier National Park Announces Scaled Back Timed Entry Reservations for Summer 2025

Bram — Sat, 10 May 2025 19:18:40 +0000

After months of uncertainty and lack of communication, Mount Rainier National Park announced its 2025 timed entry reservation requirements in a Facebook post on May 8. The park said that “summer 2025 timed entry Reservations [will be] required for the Sunrise/White River Corridor only.” This is a scaled-back version of Mount Rainier’s reservation system in...

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