As containment of the Woolsey Fire in California nears 50 percent, the extent of damage to Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, its wildlife, and its historic structures, is becoming more clear. Nearly 90 percent of the NRA has been blackened by the fire, with such historic structures as the Morrison Ranch House and Western Town at the Paramount Ranch destroyed.

Winter is a cold, snowy, and decidedly solitary season at Voyageurs National Park, where fellow visitors can be hard to spot. Take December 2017, for instance. The park recorded just 110 visitors, down from 196 a year earlier. But if you relish skimming through the woods on skis or snowmobiles, like to study tracks of what crossed the meadows and frozen ponds, or crave to see the dancing Northern Lights overhead, well, a visit to Voyageurs should be given serious consideration.

One of four wolves relocated to Isle Royale National Park this fall as part of a recovery mission for the species in the park has been found dead of unknown causes, park staff announced Tuesday.

A 135-year-old house at Saint Croix International Historic Site is considered architecturally significant by Maine preservationists, but deemed excess property by the National Park Service, which wants someone to buy it and move it to another location.