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Yellowstone National Park

  • The people who shut the national parks try to investigate the Park Service

    Ralph Maughan

    A case of the guilty investigating the effects of their crime? When the House Republicans shut down the “non-essential” services of the U.S. government by failing to pass neither a budget, nor a continuing resolution by Oct. 1, the national parks closed. They had no money to operate. During the shutdown process, the Service evacuated…

  • Park shutdown leaks a bit. Wyoming delegation tries to blame Park Service, Obama

    Ralph Maughan

    We’ve seen it numerous times before when a member of Congress votes against funding their local district or state relies on, but then turns in a posture that says someone else was responsible and their local project could be run for free. Wyoming Republican Senator John Barasso and Wyoming’s lone U.S. House member Cynthia Lummis…

  • Celebration and warnings as Greater Yellowstone Coalition marks its 30th year

    Ralph Maughan

    Former Yellowstone superintendent Michael Finley doubts grizzly delisting due to lack of habitat- West Yellowstone, MT.  Last weekend the Greater Yellowstone Coalition celebrated the 30th anniversary of its founding back in 1983. Along with honoring the founders, especially activist Rick Reese, and former Board members, the Coalition (GYC) had a prime time panel consisting of…

  • Greater Yellowstone griz to seek food in lower elevations this autumn

    Ralph Maughan

    Poor whitebark pine crop but a good berry crop brings bears lower and closer to people- This year as the Yellowstone country grizzly bears enter their time of peak appetite to prepare for hibernation they have a good berry crop to fatten on. However, there is a poor crop of the oil and protein rich…

  • How Effective Is Fire Suppression? Lessons from Yellowstone

    George Wuerthner

    One of the often repeated remarks used to explain the large fires we are experiencing around the West is that a hundred years of fire suppression has led to unnatural accumulations of fuels. Yet such assertions assume that fire suppression was always efficient and effective—a questionable assumption especially in the early days of the Forest…

  • Wolves act to help bighorn sheep near Yellowstone National Park

    Ken Cole

    I recently visited Yellowstone National Park and, while there, my father and I used a friend’s place as a base camp in Gardiner, Montana.  From there we would drive about 10 miles to the Park where we watched wildlife, took photographs, and just enjoyed some of the solitude that Yellowstone provides during this part of…

  • Yellowstone wolf population declines by 25% partly due to hunting near YNP borders

    Ken Cole

    Loss of collared wolves has had a significant effect on research of wolves in Yellowstone National Park According to a news article in the Jackson Hole News & Guide, the population of wolves in Yellowstone National Park has dropped by about 20-28% from the 2011 end-of-the-year estimate of 98 wolves. Dan Stahler, a wildlife biologist…

  • Transition. Here is the final federal Wyoming wolf news update report

    Ralph Maughan

    Wolves now under Wyoming control and they are already being shot in state’s first wolf hunting season- Mike Jimenez, who has managed wolves in Wyoming for U.S. government for years now with a slowly growing wolf population and minimal livestock depredations, has written his last wolf news report. Here it is converted to a PDF…

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