Government sharpshooters have killed 18 hogs that posed potential threats to visitors at Congaree National Park, a wildlife preserve near Columbia that has had trouble with destructive pigs through ...

HOPKINS — The wild and woodsy Congaree National Park will close several days this month while staffers conduct a hunt to eliminate some of the hundreds of roaming wild hogs that have increasingly ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Congaree National Park will be closed for 24 hours starting the night of November 15 to tackle a growing feral hog problem. Park officials say there will be a heavy focus on areas ...

Federal sharpshooters recently ventured deep into Congaree National Park, looking to kill a type of voracious animal that threatens the preserve’s fragile, forested floodplain southeast of Columbia.

Of the 63 National Parks in the U.S., only 16 require no entrance fee — and Congaree National Park, about 20 miles southeast from Columbia, is one of them. Established in 2003, Congaree saw just ...

In 2018, I began a Junior Ranger journey with Grandson Hunter. As my Navy Son-in-law has ventured from assignments including Bremerton, WA, to Charleston, SC and now Yorktown, VA, we’ve traveled from ...

Bluffs across from Congaree National Park provide unusual views of the 27,000-acre park. The state of South Carolina and land protection groups are working to preserve a corridor of these bluffs from ...

Wild and primeval, Congaree National Park is home to the largest old-growth floodplain forest in North America, with large, majestic bald cypress, water tupelo, cedar and loblolly pine trees. The ...