Large words proclaim: DISCOVER YOUR YOSEMITE. I had just come from talking with Ranger Scott Gediman, who told me, "National Parks aren't for entertainment." Yet within the Yosemite boundaries are ...

This story appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... a sheer 2,130-foot wall of granite in the heart of Yosemite Valley. He's alone, so high off the ground that perhaps ...

The nature-loving drag queen and environmentalist has big plans for making LGBTQ people feel more comfortable in the outdoors ...

The male Yosemite toad (Anaxyrus canorus) can mate like mad every year—for about two weeks. Only in late spring. And only in wet meadows, at elevations above 4,800 feet, in California’s Sierra ...

This story appears in the October 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... photography as president of the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite National Park. Loose-limbed and rangy, Matthew ...

The post Fierce, Elusive Predator Making Comeback in Yosemite appeared first on ... “They are just a ball of fury,” he told National Geographic. These carnivorous mammals have been heavily ...