The Great Smoky Mountains National Park straddles North Carolina and Tennessee. It spans more than 520,000 acres and includes ...

The past few years have seen record crowds in America's most popular national parks, including 12 million a year at this ...

Bobcats are among North America’s most adaptable wild cats, quietly thriving from dense forests to desert canyons and even ...

An armadillo is an unusual-looking mammal, and one that most people would probably associate with southern states like Texas and Louisiana. A Purdue expert recently reported that we have armadillos ...

While no official statewide census for bobcat populations in Mississippi exists, wildlife biologists estimate that tens of thousands of bobcats live across Mississippi’s counties. Studies suggest that ...

For the third time, state and local leaders will fund the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, keeping the nation’s most visited national park fully operational for a full two weeks this go-round. The ...

Funding provided by the state and local partners is keeping Great Smoky Mountains National Park operating during the shutdown. Roads, trails and popular sites such as Cades Cove have remained open to ...

On January 19, 2007, while heading toward rehearsals for the Broadway musical adaptation of 9 to 5, based on her 1980 comedy hit, Dolly Parton found herself riding around New York City in a limousine, ...