The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is urging visitor to be "Bear Aware" as black bears begin coming out of hibernation ...

S pring blossoms are bringing the trails back to life, the rivers are filling with snowmelt, and in certain parts of the ...

INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn.—This Northern Minnesota town is famous for its giant Smokey Bear statue, its cold weather and a cheeky nickname—“Icebox of the Nation.” Less well-known is that ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife responded to a report that a momma bear had apparently been hit by a car and was found with its cub lying in an apartment parking lot in Truckee.

D.C - Zip code 20252 The Annual Smokey Bear poster contest open to Texas students Kindergarten to 12th grade. The winners of the contest will be featured in a 2026 monthly calendar and the ...

The first ranger on my childhood radar screen was a bear holding a shovel named Smokey. Since 1944, Smokey’s been a poster bear for wildfire prevention. Rangers in ranger hats are what we want ...

D.C - Zip code 20252 The Annual Smokey Bear poster contest open to Texas students Kindergarten to 12th grade. The winners of the contest will be featured in a 2026 monthly calendar and the deadlines ...

Three years after Spirit the bald eagle hatched her way out of an egg in a nest high above Big Bear Lake, she may have siblings on the way. Friends of Big Bear Valley, a nonprofit that operates ...

Like book cover designers, key art creators are tasked with the unwieldy ask of distilling an entire universe of story into a single visual. It’s another standard of excellence in cinema—and ...

The parks department, this week got rid of 1000 people. Smokey the Bear is now working at Starbucks,” Maher continued. Ross joined TheWrap as a news editor in 2017; he was previously associate ...