Outdoors

Big money is building a new kind of national park to protect Montana's prairie
In Montana, a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur wants to create a massive, privately funded public park. Some ranchers oppose the American Prairie Reserve and say they can better conserve the land.
Face-to-face with a grizzly
Duluth author Alex Messenger's new book recounts how his encounter with a grizzly bear during a 600-mile canoe trip changed his life.
It's Fat Bear Week in Alaska's Katmai National Park - time to fill out your bracket
Bears preparing for hibernation need to eat as much as they can for the winter. In Alaska, it's turned into an ursine March Madness with bears going head to head to see who is the fattest.
A hiker on Wednesday said he crawled for two days through rugged Australian woodland with a broken leg and arm after falling six meters (20 feet) down a waterfall and then dropping his cellphone in a creek.