Glen Canyon National Recreation Area News

Canadian supermodel Daria Werbowy heeds the Pet Shop Boys in 'Go West' in Vogue US.

Utah waters are free of invasive quagga and zebra mussels for now, but an aggressive prevention campaign against them will continue, state officials said.

Evan Freeman, an aquatic invasive species biologist with the Division of Wildlife Resources, holds a pipe encased by quagga mussels in 2008.

The spread of Russian olive trees and other invasive plants on private and public lands in the Escalante River watershed in southern Utah is being tackled as a result of a new partnership.

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A Nevada man who failed to have his boat inspected for quagga and zebra mussels before launching onto Lake Powell at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area has been fined $2,500. A Nevada man paid $2,500 for mussels at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area , but they weren't served up at some ritzy restaurant.

A Nevada man is the first person found guilty of violating regulations adopted to prevent the spread of invasive mussels at Lake Powell.

When God created southeastern Utah, he probably didn't have Conestoga wagons in mind.

The ripest recipe for trouble in a national park? Young men hiking on a weekend who make a bad decision or two and end up hurt, exhausted or lost.

This dinosaur trackway is preserved in a block of Navajo Sandstone at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

If you've spent anytime around cliffs, you probably can appreciate that climbing up is a lot easier than climbing back down.

Effective November 1, 2009, the National Park Service will implement winter season hours of operation for mandatory mussel interdiction services at Lake Powell.

The curious landscape of White Wash Dunes along the Green River some dozen miles south of the town of Green River would be protected as wilderness under legislation that received a congressional hearing Thursday.

More people are visiting Lake Powell this year compared to 2008. The National Park Service reports a 5 percent increase at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

A Missouri man was killed at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in northern Arizona after falling into Lake Powell.

The classic Southwestern Grand Circle tour loops through seven national parks and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

Some have claimed that Salt Creek in Canyonlands National Park is a road. Photo by Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance A split ruling this week by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concerning off-road vehicle access to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument , the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area , and other public lands in southern ...

This houseboat was one of the causalities of last weekend's sudden storm at Lake Powell.

Worth a visit? Yes, definitely. But again, make it a stop on a larger trip. You would be hard-pressed to spend more than an hour or two at Horseshoe Bend.

The water level at Lake Powell is up roughly 30 feet from where it was six months ago.