Outdoor Recreation News

Wildlife officials euthanized a grizzly bear Friday after DNA tests confirmed that the sow and her cubs were responsible for a triple mauling that killed a Michigan man and injured two other campers.

Jim Cole, a Montana man who recently published a book about surviving two attacks by grizzly bears, has died of natural causes, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported .

A British schoolgirl has died in a white water rafting tragedy on holiday in Turkey, it has emerged.

The merger of two wildlife bodies will combine the strengths and expertise of both organisations, Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham said.

Shaun White has come down from the mountain. Injuries and the Olympics put his skateboarding career on hold for nearly two years and made it seem as though the snowboarding slopes were the lone pursuit for the Flying Tomato, a man who has always considered himself a two-sport athlete.

The most threatened tortoise in the world is being sold openly at a plant and animal exposition in the heart of Indonesia's capital, highlighting concerns about the rampant -- and growing -- illegal pet trade.

A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service arbitrarily excluded "critical habitat" that could be occupied by the elusive Canada lynx.

Sixteen birds washed of oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill are free in southwest Louisiana.

A Canadian company whose pipeline leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into a major Michigan river was warned by government regulators in January that its monitoring of corrosion in the pipeline was insufficient.

A mother grizzly and two of her three cubs have been captured after killing a Michigan man and injuring two other people during an overnight rampage through a campground near Yellowstone National Park.

A boat ferrying about 200 passengers to Congo's capital capsized after hitting a rock, and a government spokesman said Thursday at least 80 people were confirmed dead.

Green camping may seem redundant--what's more green that spending a weekend or a week or two in the wilderness? But many campgrounds cater to our comforts rather than nature, and a lot of campers are anything but green.

When he heard the first scream in a campground outside Yellowstone National Park, Don Wilhelm thought it was just teenagers, maybe a domestic dispute in the middlle of the night.

A man attending a skydiving festival in the northwestern Montana town of Marion was killed when he plummeted to the ground after his parachute became entangled with another man's. Fred Sand, owner of Skydive Lost Prairie, which hosts the event, says the accident happened late Wednesday afternoon.

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan picked up more GOP backing Wednesday in her drive toward near-certain confirmation next week, even as a top Republican lashed out at her as "dangerous." Sen.

GRANTS PASS - A federal judge in Montana has ordered the U.S. Forest Service to take a tougher look at the possibility that routinely dropping toxic fire retardant on wildfires from airplanes will kill endangered fish and plants.

A 10-foot alligator is doing a good job of eluding capture in St. Petersburg's canals and waters.

This Mekong giant catfish was caught in Chiang Khong, Thailand, in 2005 and weighed in at 645 pounds.

The Interior Department is selling a new duck stamp envelope to raise money for conservation in the aftermath of the Gulf oil spill.

A 17-month-old tiger escaped from the back of a pick-up truck while it was being driven to a veterinary clinic in South Africa, triggering a helicopter search by police and wildlife experts.