Yellowstone National Park
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Jon Way just got back from Yellowstone, and he has a report on some of the same events covered by Kathie Lynch. He also has photos. It is at his web page: Update November 28, 2007: Yellowstone trip with more pictures added Nov. 29!
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Kathie Lynch has written another great update on her wolf observations on the Yellowstone Park Northern Range. Ralph Maughan – – – – – – Yellowstone wolf notes. Nov. 21-25. Copyright Kathie Lynch. Five days in Yellowstone, November 21-25, 2007, brought unbelievably frigid temperatures and many, many wolves. Frost was definitely on the Thanksgiving pumpkin…
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The National Park Service, the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service [APHIS], Forest Service, Montana Department of Livestock and Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks will hold this meeting. Story.
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The final decision for winter use for Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks has been signed. Sylvan Pass will remain open this winter with the use of howitzers and helicopters for avalanche control despite the huge cost of doing so for a trickle of snowmobilers. The Park Service, however, will not send personnel up to…
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Billings Gazette. Guest opinion by Don Woerner. Outdated approach used to fight brucellosis. This veterinarian pretty much demolishes the agencies’ approach to brucellosis in elk and bison in the greater Yellowstone area as well as demolishes myths such as that the Greater Yellowstone bison and elk are the last reservoir of brucellosis in the United…
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It is said all the time that Yellowstone Park is a source of wolves — wolves don’t migrate into the Park, only out of it. This has been demonstrated to be true . . . almost. Last spring Dr. Doug Smith spotted a new wolf in the Slough Creek Pack. After a while, and I’m…
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YNP WOLF Field Notes, Nov. 10-12, 2007. Copyright Kathie Lynch. “Quite a day!” is the only way to describe Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007—the day the Druid Peak pack took back Lamar Valley! Almost four years after the reign of the Druids started to unravel with the deaths of the great alphas 21M and 42F, the…
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For the last 3 years the floor of much of the Yellowstone caldera has been rising at 3 inches a year, much faster than previous uplifts. In the past, of course, the uplift has always stopped and then fallen. This time will probably be the same. There have been many versions of the story the…