Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mules work in Olympic National Park every year from April to October. Washington State's vast Olympic National Park sprawls across ...

After years of long days spent together in the backcountry of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Danny Gibson knows his coworkers inside and out. There’s Tug, the class clown who’s never met a ...

Gibson started working for the park in 2003 as a trail crew member, but his affinity for animals quickly drew him to the pack mule program. He grew up on a small farm that kept horses and cattle, and ...

Gibson is the park’s animal caretaker, and his co-workers are mainly of the four-legged variety. Serving alongside the program’s three human employees are 12 mules and six horses, and they all work ...

After years of long days spent together in the backcountry of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Danny Gibson really knows his co-workers. There’s Tug, the class clown who’s never met a stranger; ...