National Parks
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Bison get final push into Yellowstone; laggards face slaughter. By Matthew Brown. Associated Press Writer BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Wildlife officials made a last push Tuesday to get bison back into Yellowstone National Park before they face possible slaughter if caught outside park boundaries. post 1125
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Cutthroat losing out to lake trout in Yellowstone Lake. Native trout numbers lowest since counting began. By Mike Stark. Of The Billings Gazette Staff. The situation is more dire than I thought possible. It is a catastrophe for Yellowstone wildlife and all those who enjoyed fishing the tributaries to the lake. Those is in boats,…
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Group wants to rename Glacier. By Bill Schneider. New West. post 1120
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Story in the New York Times. A big question is whether the fees will stay at the Parks, or will they be siphoned off, like the Forest Services fees, to do the bidding of industrial recreation groups who want to close minimal campgrounds and herd people into high end developments that separate them from nature.…
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The Salt Lake Tribune has published an interesting story about public land disputes in Utah. Local authorities there are thumbing their noses at federal regulation of federal public land. The result of such localized insistance of authority is sadly predictable: State Rep. Mike Noel, a Republican from the southern community of Kanab, said: It gets…
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This 45-million dollars worth of foot and bicycle trails is a really big national parks project. It will be very popular and may save lives by taking bicycles of the Grant Teton National Park roads, which can be very crowded and have to accommodate huge RVs. On the other hand it may damage wildlife habitat…
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Most people who read this blog know that the Yellowstone Caldera rises and falls, sometimes as much as several feet, due to movements of the magma not far below. I have linked to a number of newspaper articles about this. Here is a technical paper from the USGS that is fairly easy to read. Satellite…
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They are going to reconstruct the roads at Canyon Village and the access roads to the trails leading to the views of the falls. Story in the Billings Gazette. Post 1005