Zion National Park

This photo taken Jan. 16, 2013 courtesy The Peregrine Fund shows a dead condor found at Zion National Park in Utah. A California condor found dead at Zion National Park is believed to have died from lead poisoning after foraging on a bullet-ridden game carcass, in another setback for the recovery project on the Utah-Arizona border, officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Eddie Feltes/The Peregrine Fund)

Zion condor found dead; was likely lead poisoning

 

SALT LAKE CITY — A California condor found dead at Zion National Park is believed to have died from lead poisoning after foraging on a bullet-ridden game carcass, in another setback for the recovery project on the Utah-Arizona border, officials said Monday.

Separately, two condors found dead in northern Arizona in December were confirmed by The Peregrine Fund to have died of lead poisoning. The latest fatality involved a 9-year-old female that had been observed searching nesting cavities together with a mate at Zion, which takes out a breeding pair.

California Condor

Lead poisoning suspected in death of condor at Zion NP

ZION NATIONAL PARK -- Biologists for The Peregrine Fund say they found a condor dead near a popular landmark at Zion National Park.

Zion Canyon near the park entrance

Anonymous donor helps save Zion plot from building

WASHINGTON — Officials at Zion National Park say an anonymous, $825,000 gift will help protect a critical piece of private land inside the park from being developed.

(FILE) Hikers travel down the Watchman trail just before sunset Sunday, Oct. 4, 2004, near Springdale, Utah, at Zion National Park. The 2-mile hike offers a view of lower Zion Canyon and Springdale. (WHITNEY CURTIS/STANDARD-EXAMINER)

Rangers rescue 2 hikers in Zion National Park

ZION NATIONAL PARK — Rangers rescued two hikers who were unable to complete one of the more strenuous canyoneering routes at Zion National Park.

Rock slide traps hikers at Zion National Park

SPRINGDALE — A popular hiking trail at Zion National Park is buried in 6 feet of debris after a rock slide that trapped nearly a dozen hikers for several hours.

Taylor Creek with Horse Ranch Mountain in background.

Zion Park shrinks parking lot to discourage crowds

SPRINGDALE — Zion National Park is making one of its parking lots smaller to discourage overcrowding.

Zion tourist wins award for saving hiker’s life

WASHINGTON, Utah  — A California police detective has won the prestigious national Citizen’s Award for Bravery for helping save the life of a hiker during his vacation in Utah’s Zion National Park.

Ivins resident John Bangerter talks Thursday, Feb. 23. 2012 in St. George, Utah about a flash flood that swept through the Zion National Park Narrows 50 years ago. Bangerter and most of the members of his outdoor expedition group caught up in the flood survived, but five participants were killed. Springdale's police chief is trying to determine if a partial skull found five years ago in the river is from one of the victims who was never found. (AP Photo/The Spectrum, Kevin Jenkins)

Survivor of 1961 Utah flash flood recalls tragedy

ST. GEORGE -- Somewhere beneath the waters of the Virgin River -- perhaps even of Lake Mead more than 100 miles downstream -- lie the remains of two Boy Scouts killed 50 years ago in a flash flood that swept through the Zion National Park Narrows.

A skull fragment recovered from the river five years ago and believed to be from one of the flood victims is evidence of the passage of time since the deadly incident. Even now, the memory of that day in September 1961 doesn't rest easily for one of the survivors of the ill-fated trek undertaken by a wilderness expedition group called Socotwa.

(NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner) Dayna Urquhart (left) and Jim Urquhart photograph Balanced Rock with the stars in the background in April in Arches National Park near Moab.

Stargazers, parks officials hope to save the night

CEDAR CITY — Gazing skyward from his backyard, longtime Southern Utah resident Abe Heck used to marvel at the Milky Way. Now he can’t even see it.

Fire in Zion National Park contained

CEDAR CITY -- Firefighters are monitoring a southern Utah wildfire in Zion National Park that they say has been 100 percent contained over the weekend.

Zion closes Kolob Canyon section due to a wildfire

ZION NATIONAL PARK -- Zion National Park officials have closed trails in the Kolob Canyon section due to a wildfire.

Zion Canyon in Zion National Park

Too many drunken drivers in Zion National Park?

SPRINGDALE -- Zion National Park is ramping up a crusade against drunken driving during the last days of summer and through Labor Day weekend.

Wildfire burns 1/2 square mile near Zion

VIRGIN -- Crews are continuing to battle a wildfire that has burned nearly half a square mile in southwestern Utah.

Hiking adventures of The Subway and Red Cave

"Come on!" yelled the guy on the four-wheeler. "People do it all the time. I'm sure you'll make it."

He shrugged as if our Mercury Villager minivan was made for crossing rivers, and then zoomed across the river, the water tugging at the tops of his wheel wells.

"All right," said Mike, my husband, taking a deep breath. And in we plunged.

This trip, a kid-free adventure in Zion National Park with a group of fit friends, was all about plunging. (And not the toilet variety, although there was some questionable water involved.)

We had come to Zion looking for good hiking, a little swimming, and some climbing. Zion and the surrounding area, full of deep slots, windswept rock, and the meandering Virgin River, combines the best of nature into a luring siren song of adventure.

Utah wildfire season almost upon us

The start of Northern Utah's wildfire season has been delayed by recent precipitation and unmelted snowpack, but conditions could quickly change as vegetation dries, federal and state officials say.

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