North Cascades
Shutdown threat hangs over Washington’s national parks
People traveling to Washington’s national parks may be met with locked gates and closed visitor centers come Sunday. The National Park Service says most of the parks it manages across the country would close during the partial federal shutdown that is likely to start over the weekend. How exactly the situation will play out in […]
There are new proposals to bring back grizzly bears in the North Cascades
Grizzly bears could get another chance at returning to Washington’s North Cascades, under a framework two federal agencies unveiled on Thursday. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and National Park Service released a set of options to bring the hulking animals back into the area — a wild expanse of glaciated peaks, dense forests, and […]