Yellowstone National Park
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Yellowstone numbers strong for August. By Cory Hatch, Jackson Hole News and Guide. The bad economy and high gas prices have not reduced visits to Yellowstone.
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Wolf packs attack the toughest prey in Yellowstone. By Brett French. Billings Gazette Staff. “It’s not easy being a bison-eating wolf in Yellowstone National Park.” Mollies Pack has become a rugged bison-killing wolf pack. They are a pack ideal for this with their big brawny male wolves. It’s no accident. With elk, big males in…
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Silver Gate man spends days recording wolf movements. By Brett French. Billings Gazette. This story is about a great man almost every wolf watcher in Yellowstone Park soon meets, Ranger Rick McIntyre.
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Below is Kathie Lynch’s detailed wolf report for the end of the summer. It sounds like the return of the Druids must have been one of the most amazing wildlife sights wolf watchers in Yellowstone have ever witnessed. Yellowstone wolf report. July 11-Aug. 20. By © Kathie Lynch Summer in Yellowstone meant hot, windy days,…
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Rocky Barker has written extensively about the Yellowstone fires and fire policy in general with a book (Scorched Earth) on the role of forest fires fighting and the history of the public lands. Today he has a feature article on how the lessons from ’88 have been learned and applied and also not learned or…
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There have been a number of retrospectives on the great fires of ’88 on their 20th anniversary. Here is one from the Salt Lake Tribune summarizing the effect on wildlife. How wildlife fared in the Yellowstone fires.
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Grizzly bear pounces on Yellowstone firefighter. AP. Jackson Hole News and Guide. Update. August 7. Firefighter back after griz encounter. Billings Gazette News Services.
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Need a good laugh that isn’t funny? The Elk Vaccination Follies. By Bill Schneider. New West. “FWP has doubled the elk quota around Yellowstone with minimal public input and is now talking about capturing 350 elk in the Paradise Valley to test the prevalence of brucellosis, which is commonly believed to be very low.” Robert…