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Fox News
11 hours ago
- Fox News
Mountain lion attacks 4-year-old walking with family at Washington's Olympic National Park
NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! A 4-year-old was hospitalized after being attacked by a mountain lion at a popular national park in Washington. The animal, which was collared, bit a child walking with family near Victoria Overlook on Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park Sunday afternoon, according to a news release from the National Park Service. Park rangers were alerted to the attack shortly after 3 p.m., and paramedics and park staff responded. TRAGEDY STRIKES AT POPULAR NATIONAL PARK AS CLIMBER MEETS FATAL END ON MOUNTAIN The child was transported by medical helicopter to a hospital in Seattle, according to the National Park Service. PASTOR'S SON DIES IN TRAGIC FALL ON GRADUATION TRIP, FAMILY VOWS TO 'HONOR HIM BY LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST' Immediately after the attack, rangers and a canine team began searching for the mountain lion. Staff located the animal that same day and killed the animal the next morning. There is no threat to the public, and the attack is under investigation, the National Park Service noted. "Rangers are still gathering details about the incident," a spokesperson for the National Park Service told Fox News Digital in an email, adding links to information about cougar safety. YELLOWSTONE TOURIST GORED BY BISON AFTER GROUP OF VISITORS APPROACHED IT TOO CLOSELY Anyone who witnessed the incident should contact the National Park Service, the spokesperson added. Last summer, a 5-year-old boy was hospitalized with serious but non-life-threatening injuries after a mountain lion attack in Southern California. The big cat was later euthanized by California state rangers. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Clallam 2 Fire-Rescue, which also responded to the incident in Washington, did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
New York Times
16 hours ago
- Health
- New York Times
Mountain Lion Is Euthanized After Attacking a Child in Olympic National Park
A mountain lion that bit a 4-year-old child on a popular trail at Olympic National Park in Washington State was euthanized on Monday, park officials said. The child was treated at a hospital in Seattle and released on Monday, officials said. The child had been walking with family at the national park on Sunday when the mountain lion, which was wearing a tracking collar for research purposes, attacked, according to park officials. The child's identity and extent of their injuries were not released. Mountain lion attacks on humans are exceedingly rare, according to wildlife experts. There have only been a couple dozen fatal attacks in the U.S. and Canada in the last 150 years, according to data. Mountain lions are mostly solitary cats, tending to keep a low profile among people, which makes sightings of them unusual. The child was attacked while on a popular trail near the Victoria Overlook area on Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park, officials said. Rangers were notified of the attack about 3:15 p.m. on Sunday, and paramedics and park staff quickly transferred the child by an air ambulance to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Rangers, and later a canine team, searched for the animal and found it on Sunday. It was not euthanized until Monday morning, park officials said. Mountain lions are known by more than 40 common names, including puma, cougar, panther, red tiger and catamount. They are most active at dusk and dawn, and their favorite prey are deer and elk. No details were released about the animal, or its contribution to research. In 2022, another collared mountain lion, known as P-22, was euthanized in Los Angeles after wildlife officials determined that he had serious health issues. That one had become a celebrity in the city, after helping to inspire the construction of a wildlife crossing bridge on the 101 Freeway. P-22 lived most of his life in Griffith Park and gained a social media following, with more than 10,000 followers on Instagram. But despite the crossing bridge, he was hit by a car in 2022. Soon afterward, he attacked two dogs, one of which died. Olympic National Park, which covers more than 920,000 acres on a thumb of land known as the Olympic Peninsula, is one of the largest, most remote, and least-developed protected areas in the United States.
E&E News
a day ago
- Politics
- E&E News
Top House Democrat seeks answers on Grand Canyon fire
The top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee is asking President Donald Trump how his administration initially responded to a still-burning wildfire in Grand Canyon National Park. In a letter Monday addressed to Trump, Rep. Jared Huffman, a Democrat from California, said political appointees like Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins are ultimately responsible for how the Dragon Bravo Fire was managed. 'As you have insisted in many, many other cases, the ultimate responsibility for policy decisions lies with you and your appointees, not with career civil servants,' Huffman wrote to the president. Advertisement 'Yet incredibly, we have not heard anything from you, or from Secretaries Burgum and Rollins about this massive fire and the destruction it has wrought [on] one of America's most iconic national parks.'
Yahoo
4 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Landscape charity launches Lakes litter survey
A landscape charity has launched an online survey in an effort to get a clearer idea about the scale of littering and illegal camping in a national park. Friends of the Lake District said it wanted to find out whether people living in the area think the problem is becoming more widespread. The findings of the questionnaire will be used by the organisation to campaign for measures such as more frequent visits to hotspots by rangers, tougher action against anyone found to be responsible for leaving a mess and more effective prevention steps. Valleys, roadsides and lake shores are among the areas commonly seeing problems, it says. The group said people leaving rubbish behind, as well as those camping without the landowner's permission, "seems to have grown as a problem" in recent years. It added it comes "in the wake of a slew of social media videos of influencers sharing their experiences" in the area without sharing how to visit responsibly and follow the Countryside Code" – a set of guidelines aimed at protecting the outdoors. The role of influencers has been in the spotlight and in May the Lake District National Park Authority announced it would pay some to help discourage people from fly camping and littering. Wildfire risk Kay Andrews, the organisation's engagement lead said: "The lasting effects of leaving rubbish in the landscape aren't just visual. "Litter can kill wildlife and livestock, damage soils, leach into water systems and cause health hazards, while barbecues and fires can easily cause wildfires in summer. "When people act in such a thoughtless manner, it ruins the enjoyment of the beautiful countryside of the Lake District for other visitors and causes affected communities stress and upset". Posts about the Lake District are incredibly popular on platforms such as Instagram, with about 6.4m tags for the location used, compared to 2.4m for the Peak District and 1.9m for Northumberland. Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram. More on this topic Campers dump tent, rubbish and uncooked sausages Destructive 'fly campers' threatened with fines Lake District charity hits out at litter pests
BBC News
4 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Lake District landscape charity launches litter survey
A landscape charity has launched an online survey in an effort to get a clearer idea about the scale of littering and illegal camping in a national of the Lake District said it wanted to find out whether people living in the area think the problem is becoming more findings of the questionnaire will be used by the organisation to campaign for measures such as more frequent visits to hotspots by rangers, tougher action against anyone found to be responsible for leaving a mess and more effective prevention roadsides and lake shores are among the areas commonly seeing problems, it says. The group said people leaving rubbish behind, as well as those camping without the landowner's permission, "seems to have grown as a problem" in recent added it comes "in the wake of a slew of social media videos of influencers sharing their experiences" in the area without sharing how to visit responsibly and follow the Countryside Code" – a set of guidelines aimed at protecting the role of influencers has been in the spotlight and in May the Lake District National Park Authority announced it would pay some to help discourage people from fly camping and littering. Wildfire risk Kay Andrews, the organisation's engagement lead said: "The lasting effects of leaving rubbish in the landscape aren't just visual."Litter can kill wildlife and livestock, damage soils, leach into water systems and cause health hazards, while barbecues and fires can easily cause wildfires in summer."When people act in such a thoughtless manner, it ruins the enjoyment of the beautiful countryside of the Lake District for other visitors and causes affected communities stress and upset".Posts about the Lake District are incredibly popular on platforms such as Instagram, with about 6.4m tags for the location used, compared to 2.4m for the Peak District and 1.9m for Northumberland. Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
