wilderness preserve

While sliding down the vertical swamp in Kaua’i’s Alaka’i Wilderness Preserve in search of the island’s six endemic bird species, I encountered a man in camouflage carrying a rifle and accompanied by two Rottweilers.

Sheriff's office divers searched a gator-infested canal in a Florida wilderness preserve after human remains were found in the mouth of a large alligator, officials said.

In Florida, the search for Laundrie continued Thursday for a fifth day in a large, forbidding wilderness preserve near his parents’ home.

Areas above Azusa west of Morris Reservoir, the Monrovia Wilderness Preserve and northeast of Yucaipa where the Ranch 2, Bobcat, Apple and El Dorado fires burned are all considered at high risk of experiencing debris flows with even a decent amount of rain, which should arrive over the next week in three storms.

A young mountain lion that was captured last month after roaming the streets of San Francisco and then released into a wilderness preserve was found dead Friday on the shoulder of a highway in Northern California, authorities said.