Yellowstone National Park
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Officials have transported 50 Yellowstone National Park bison to the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes in Montana. The animals transferred Friday were under quarantine by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service located north of the park in the Gardiner Basin, the Billings Gazette reported. The…
With one of the world’s largest active supervolcanoes right next door, you can’t help but wonder – how long before Yellowstone decides to blow its top? The volcanic activity at Yellowstone National Park is what makes it the incredible sight it has been for hundreds of thousands of years. But that activity is driven by…
Yellowstone National Park took to Facebook yesterday to announce the New Blue Spring at Mammoth Hot Springs has ended its “recent period of dormancy.” The New Blue is part of the Main Terrace Group on Clematis Creek at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone. Rather than being a single pool, the spring is made up of…
3,806,305 – that’s how many people visited Yellowstone National Park in 2020. Park officials have released the 2020 visitation numbers for Yellowstone National Park. On initial review, you might not even notice the national and global factors that had many fearing the park wouldn’t open at all last year. Yellowstone’s gates recorded 3,806,305 people entering…
The millions of tourists Yellowstone sees every year could mean millions of dollars for conservation projects in areas – like Cody – adjacent to the park. The University of Wyoming is one of the institutions involved in a new paper published in the scientific journal Conservation Science and Practice – “Harnessing visitors’ enthusiasm for national…
It’s always cool to get a small look into what things were like a long time ago, and this video of a 1930’s family exploring Yellowstone is exactly that.
The National Park Service recently shared some really cool footage on their Yellowstone National Park page of a very rare sighting of the ever-elusive wolverine, which was caught on trail camera footage. The wolverine was captured near the Mammoth Hot Springs area on a trail camera that was originally used to capture cougar footage. This…
One question you never thought you’d have to answer to pitch your tent at Grand Teton National Park – “do you have a reservation?” Starting Jan. 26 at 8 a.m., camping in Grand Teton will be by reservation only. Park officials announced that the days of the spontaneous camping trips will end, to provide a…
After initially pleading not guilty to federal charges, the would-be treasure hunter admitted his guilt in digging up the Fort Yellowstone Cemetery. 52-year-old Rodrick Dow Craythorn of Syracuse, Utah changed his plea in a U.S. District Court on Monday, Jan. 4. He was charged with excavating or trafficking in archeological resources, and injury or depredation…
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