How healthy is Yellowstone National Park's moose population? That's a question a husband-and-wife team from Vermont hopes to answer over the course of a three-year study into the animals.

Well, the grizzlies are awakening in the Northern Rockies, so this quote from Ed Abbey seems pertinent.

Millions of winter-weary residents of the Upper Midwest and Northeast hope they can soon put away their snow shovels for the current season, but in a number of national parks, the job of clearing snow from roads in preparation for the upcoming summer season is just getting underway. It's a mammoth job indeed, and these videos offer some interesting views from the cabs of the plows.

West Yellowstone is one of the smaller gateway towns you’ll find in the National Park System...which isn’t such a bad thing.