Woodland — Smokey Bear visited Woodland Primary School to teach students the importance of fire safety and how to prevent forest fires. He was joined by Amanda Dales, school instructor for the ...

Kat Shay, manager of the Big Bear Trails Program with the Southern California Mountains Foundation, examines a recently fallen tree on the Woodland Trail in Big Bear, CA, on Friday, August 26, 2022.

Kat Shay, manager of the Big Bear Trails Program with the Southern California Mountains Foundation, examines a recently fallen tree on the Woodland Trail in Big Bear, CA, on Friday, August 26, 2022.

Woodland Park Zoo's 3-month-old sloth bear cub, Bowie, is set to make her public debut this weekend. Born on January 8, the same day as music icon David Bowie, the young cub will be introduced to ...

The areas around the Research Forest Drive and the north and south segments of Panther Branch and Bear Branch creeks have flooded in recent years after massive rains soaked the area in May 2015 ...

The last sloth bear born at the zoo was in 2004. "Mom and cub are doing very well," said Martin Ramirez, mammal curator at Woodland Park Zoo. "This is Tasha's first cub, but her motherly instincts ...