Yet Another Bear Lost in Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park rangers on Wednesday put down a female black bear that had come to rely on humans for food.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 30th, 2010 5:37pm
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America's Great Outdoors: Your Chance to Speak Up
Are Americans losing touch with the rural side of life? Are we forgetting how pastoral settings appear and make us feel? President Obama fears so, and he's interested in your thoughts on how to get Americans reconnected with the "great outdoors."
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 30th, 2010 2:15am
Power Could Take A While to Restore at Yellowstone National Park's Fishing Bridge RV Park
There's nothing quite as bad on a national park vacation as pulling into an RV park only to learn there's no electricity. The folks at Yellowstone National Park are trying to eliminate that woe by restoring the electrical at the Fishing Bridge RV Park.
Yellowstone's Fishing Ethic An Export Into Heart of Canadian Pike Country
You can call it a ripple effect, or “trickle-up conservation” or, in concepts that rabid anglers know in their hearts, the value of wild, sustainable fisheries and what they really mean.
- By Todd Wilkinson - June 29th, 2010 3:15am
Another Bear Killed By Hit-and-Run Driver in Yellowstone National Park
The summer is not starting off well for bears in Yellowstone National Park, where for the second time in less than a month a bear has been killed by a hit-and-run driver.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 28th, 2010 5:37pm
Odds and Ends From Around the National Park System
Items, some interesting, some perhaps not, from around the National Park System for a Monday morning's consideration.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 28th, 2010 3:15am
Investigation Launched Into Grizzly Bear Mauling of Botanist Outside Yellowstone National Park
Why did a 70-year-old man head up into the Washakie Wilderness outside Yellowstone National Park knowing that wildlife biologists were trying to capture a grizzly bear? And why did federal authorities decide the bear that mauled the man to death have to be killed?
Would Year-Round Access To Old Faithful Compromise Yellowstone National Park's "Frontier"?
In Dances With Wolves, Lt. John Dunbar requests a posting on "the frontier" because he "wants to see the frontier before it's gone." It's not too difficult to put Yellowstone National Park, between the months of December and April, as being on the last frontier of the Lower 48.While it would be relatively easy to maintain wheeled-access to Old Faithful year-round, with apparently few environmental consequences, should we shrink what little "frontier" we have left in the National Park System?
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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?
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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