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National Parks Traveler Episode 174: Listening To Park Sounds

As much as a national park’s scenery catches you, the sounds you can pick up during your park visits are just as memorable. And, in the case of a howling wolf, bellowing grizzly, or bugling elk, I would suggest that they’re more memorable. This is Kurt Repanshek, your host at the National Parks Traveler. This week, we’re doing away with talking and focusing on listening.

Yellowstone’s Mount Doane Name Changes To First Peoples Mountain

Yellowstone National Park announced Thursday that Mount Doane is now named First Peoples Mountain. This announcement follows a 15-0 vote affirming the change by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN), the federal body responsible for maintaining uniform geographic name usage throughout the federal government.

Yellowstone Science 2021

In Yellowstone National Park, plenty goes on that we might not notice but which contributes to our understanding of past and present environments and landscapes. Each year, the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory produces an annual report summarizing research performed, and conclusions derived, from that research. For 2021, the YVO accomplished quite a bit.

Linking protected areas from Yellowstone to the Yukon shows the value of conserving large landscapes, not just isolated parks and preserves

As human development spreads ever farther around the world, very few large ecosystems remain relatively intact and uninterrupted by highways, cities or other human-constructed obstacles. One of the largest exceptions is the Yellowstone to Yukon region, or Y2Y, which stretches more than 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) northwest from Wyoming into Canada’s Yukon territory.

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