Although heirs to the Burt’s Bees family fortune, the Quimbys, want to give 70,000 acres of private land to the state of Maine for creation of a national park in Penobscot County, the County Board of Commissioners formed a committee to oppose the park. After they conveyed their opposition to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, it’s [ more... ]

Stacie Murray likes fresh air. Really really likes fresh air. The chef for the U.S. program in Antarctica spends almost every night in a tent overlooking a beautiful stretch of icy water, and she just logged her 730th day — two years of camping in the harshest environment on earth. In an email to Adventure [ more... ]

The move to wed The Canyons and Solitude via a lift amounts to the Forest Service ceding only 30 acres of public land and putting it into private hands. Now a voice you wouldn’t expect, Outdoor Life, is calling it out as an unwise move, saying that Utah Congressman Rob Bishop is in the wrong [ more... ]

There are lots of reasons not to keep wild animals as pets. Start with the “wild” part. But a Montana woman was apparently doing just that with a deer, and not just any deer, but a five-year-old buck that trampled or gored her (details are sketchy) in its pen earlier this week and severely injured [ more... ]

The Natural Resources Defense Council and Protect Our Winters study that came out last week has started to trickle through to individual states looking at what the numbers mean locally…and it isn’t pretty. In New Hampshire the math adds up to $54 million in lost revenue. The University of New Hampshire researcher Elizabeth Burakowski says [ more... ]

After Yellowstone’s most “famous” radio-collared wolf was hunted and killed this past week Montana wildlife commissioners on Monday shut down all wolf hunts and prohibited trapping in areas of the state that border the northwest corner of Yellowstone National Park. Bob Ream, the chairman of the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission, said the scientific [ more... ]

The porcupine is an awkward, ungainly, silly little creature that just so happens to be armed with 30,000 weapons on its back, any one of which will hurt like hell if it penetrates your skin. But why? Scientists at Harvard have just published a study that explains that the quills more easily penetrate flesh thanks [ more... ]

You know the old one about the tree falling in the forest…but if a robotic camera takes a photo in that forest, is it art? Okay, who cares. It’s just cool, and if BBC’s Camera Trap Competition, now in its third year, raises awareness about the natural world that’s a good thing. Also, most of [ more... ]

That’s giant, as in the size of the pythons the state wants hunters to kill. And giant in quantity, too, because the whole reason for the event is to slay as many of these invasive pests as possible. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is officially after the Burmese python, which has been a [ more... ]

The key to everlasting life, or the cure for cancer, may come from a species known as the immortal jellyfish. It’s tiny, and not enough scientists want to study it, but it turns out to have an amazing trait: It can entirely regenerate, and in a strange way, self replicate, too. As if that’s not [ more... ]