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Visitors watch the release of Kemp's ridley sea turtle hatchlings into the ocean at the Malaquite Beach Visitor Center at Padre Island National Seashore on Sunday, July 27, 2014.

Fire crews were battling two fast-moving wildfires in California that threatened many homes and forced hundreds of evacuations, officials said.

Fire crews were battling two fast-moving wildfires in California that threatened many homes and forced hundreds of evacuations, officials said.

Tourists who like fruit will find that little grows in San Francisco, or in Yosemite National Park, for that matter.

Authorities now say 14 people - including a 15-year-old - have been struck by lightning during rare summer thunderstorms that have swept through Southern California, injuring two critically.

Firefighters in Northern California on Sunday battled a wildfire that has destroyed 10 homes and forced hundreds of evacuations in the Sierra Nevada foothills, while a fire near Yosemite National Park destroyed one home and grew significantly overnight.

A fire near Yosemite National Park has burned over 2,000 acres of land, more than four times as much land as it had on Saturday.

The National Park Service rangers are searching for a bear wounded in an encounter with a hiker in Glacier National Park.

Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue holds a photograph of his holds a photograph of his dead brother showing his bruises and injuries during an interview Wednesday, July 16, 2014, in Salt Lake City.

Fire crews have contained two of four blazes burning Saturday in remote areas of the Dinosaur National Monument near the Colorado-Utah state line.

Joey Leone talks about the ban on liquor on some Fire Island beaches while visiting near Ocean Beach on Fire Island, Saturday, July 26, 2014.

Hundreds of firefighters are working in rugged terrain and triple-digit temperatures.

Even for a regular like Allen Keeten, who has been visiting here since the late 1970s, the retreating shoreline of Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam is a shock to witness.

Two male teens were rescued Friday evening from a 75-foot cliff in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Marin County by a cinch collar line lowered from a helicopter operated by the California Highway Patrol, a CHP officer said.

The large submerged mat of oil mixed with sand, shells and water just off the Gulf Islands National Seashore's Fort Pickens beach is being removed by a cleanup crew digging it up by hand.

Here are seven wonderful hikes at Crater Lake National Park and its surroundings, in the southern Oregon Cascades of Klamath, Douglas and Jackson counties: This is No.

Rachel and Brian Kinney walk with their children Brian Jr. , Nevaeh and Kierstin along Bath House Row in Hot Springs in 2010.

Click through to take a look to see where Crater Lake ranks, in terms of size, among all Oregon national parks.

The fire was one of several in the area caused by lightning in the past 24 hours, according to the monument's acting fire management officer, Andy Bundshuh.