Tribal members descend in late January each year to the burial ground near the Bear River where soldiers felled hundreds of their ancestors in one of American history's bloodiest_ but little remembered_ massacres. Descendants of the Northwestern Shoshone who were decimated in their winter encampment in a surprise ...

The National Park Service says Yosemite officials were overconfident in their ability to manage a controlled burn last summer that whipped into an explosive wildfire. The prescribed burn near the mountain town of Foresta last August was intended to eliminate tinder-dry vegetation that could cause a wildfire ...

Federal officials on Monday agreed to a request by two Indian tribes for special protections for Nantucket Sound, a move that could delay construction of a proposed wind farm off Cape Cod. The National Park Service said the sound is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places ...