Yellowstone National Park

Wouldn't It Be Nice If the National Park Service Resumed the Distribution of Park Window Stickers?

Once upon a time, when you entered a national park you collected a distinctive window sticker that you could attach to your windshield. While you can buy versions of these stickers today, wouldn't it be great if the National Park Service handed them out when you entered a park?

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By Kurt Repanshek - June 20th, 2010 3:15am

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Updated: Attempt To Trap Young Grizzly in Yellowstone National Park Leads To Its Death

A young grizzly bear that biologists were trying to capture in Yellowstone National Park because it looked unhealthy was accidentally killed when it tried to escape a trap that it had been lured into, park officials said Saturday.

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By Kurt Repanshek - June 30th, 2010 5:09pm

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Still No Resolution In Hunt For Missing Man in Yellowstone National Park

Search efforts are ongoing in Yellowstone National Park for an Oklahoma man who is thought to have vanished into the park's backcountry during the long Memorial Day weekend.

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By Kurt Repanshek - June 16th, 2010 2:15am

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Land Deal Closes The Book On the New World Mine Proposed on Yellowstone National Park's Doorstep

Fourteen years after the Clinton White House stepped in to halt a gold mine from being built on the doorstep of Yellowstone National Park, a final piece of the settlement puzzle has been put into place with the purchase of nearly 800 acres of private lands.

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By Kurt Repanshek - June 15th, 2010 5:54pm

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Updated: Phone App Reviews: Chimani's Acadia and Nomad's Great Smoky Mountains

The number of national park phone applications recently grew by two, with Chimani's Acadia National Park and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park guide(s) recently sent to market by Nomad Mobile Guides. We recently test drove both. Here's what we found.

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By Kurt Repanshek - June 15th, 2010 8:11am

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With A Growing Number of National Park Phone Apps, What Should You Expect?

Like it or not, we are indeed becoming a society tethered to our electronics. If anyone doubts that this is the "information age," know that recent surveys estimate that nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population carries a smart phone in their pocket or purse.

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By Kurt Repanshek - June 14th, 2010 2:15am

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Circumstances Force National Park Service to Actively Manage Wildlife

Florida panther kittens dosed with dewormers. Black-footed ferrets inoculated against plague. Sterilizing horses at Cape Lookout National Seashore and elk at Rocky Mountain National Park. And now Yellowstone National Park bison that could be vaccinated against brucellosis via air gun.

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By Kurt Repanshek - June 10th, 2010 5:04am

Yellowstone National Park Considering "Remote Vaccination" For Bison To Stem Brucellosis

Ever-present concerns that bison from Yellowstone National Park might spread a deadly disease to Montana cattle has park biologists considering the use of an air-gun-delivered vaccine for the bison.

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By Kurt Repanshek - July 23rd, 2010 6:07pm

Young Grizzly Victim of of HIt-and-Run in Yellowstone National Park, Second Collision in a Week

A year-old grizzly has been killed in a hit-and-run accident along the western border of Yellowstone National Park, marking the second time in a week motorists have run into bears in the park.

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By Kurt Repanshek - June 8th, 2010 11:28am

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No Sign of Missing Oklahoman in Yellowstone National Park

Searchers so far have been unable to find any sign of a 25-year-old Oklahoma man thought to be missing somewhere in the northern range of Yellowstone National Park, officials said Friday.

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By Kurt Repanshek - June 5th, 2010 9:10am

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