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Yellowstone National Park

  • Yellowstone East Entrance closed again

    Ralph Maughan

    It was closed again at 8 pm Tuesday due to a spot fire along the East Entrance road. It is closed until further notice. The road had been open for 12 hours since the previous closure. Update Aug. 16. The East Entrance is still closed. Here is the detailed story from the Billings Gazette. Fire…

  • Columbine fire explodes. Yellowstone East Entrance closed.

    Ralph Maughan

    Sunday was great fire expansion day all over Western Montana, NW Wyoming, central Idaho, and SE Idaho. Among the many fires, the Columbine Fire which had been slowly growing about 7 miles south of the East Entrance, blew up. Story on many of these fires in today’s (Aug. 13) Billings Gazette. Park’s East Entrance remains…

  • Three fires now actively burning in Yellowstone

    Ralph Maughan

    Although the Owl Fire has been contained and personnel demobilized, the Beaverdam, Columbine 1, and new Promontory Complex are burning rapidly. All three are SE Yellowstone backcountry fires. Folks will recognize The Promontory, which sticks out into Yellowstone Lake. It is on fire. Here is the Park’s wildfire page. The Inciweb Page is usualy better,…

  • New fire in Yellowstone burns south of Sylvan Pass

    Ralph Maughan

    A thunderstorm started the Columbine fire on Friday. It has grown to over a thousand acres. It is 7 miles south of Sylvan Pass (over which traffic from the Park’s East Entrance passes). Story in the Billings Gazette. By Lance Benzel. Meanwhile the Owl Creek fire in the NW corner of the Park has been…

  • Yellowstone's Wolves Save Its Aspen

    Brian Ertz

    This was nice. The New York Time’s does a piece on “The Basics” with wolves and Yellowstone’s aspen. I like the cartoon as well.

  • Bangs predicts no wolf populaton growth in Wyoming this year

    Ralph Maughan

    But is wasn’t supposed to be this way, the Wyoming wolf population would grow 20% forever! Just ask Gov. Dave or that Crank guy who is the State’s AG. Here is the brief item from the Bang’s weekly report: Mid-summer pack counts in Wyoming include: 15 breeding packs with pups, 7 packs with unknown breeding…

  • Contact Governor Brian Schweitzer (Buffalo Field Campaign update)

    Ralph Maughan

    This is the time to contact Governor Schweitzer asking for bison habitat, especially since Republican Montana congressman Dennis Rehburg shot down an effort in Congress to provide it. I’d think the Democratic governor would want to knock of this obstreperous retrograde Republican holdover. _________________ Here is the BFC update. In this issue: * Update from…

  • Montana gets a bison hunt proposal from two tribes.

    Ralph Maughan

    Story by the Associated Press. If Montana is not willing to provide bison habitat, I’d certainly prefer that tribes get their treaty priority first. Montana should not just get to suck off of the surplus from Yellowstone Park. If they want bison to hunt, they should allow bison to use the vacant habitat just west…

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