Yellowstone National Park staff is proposing to run a fiber optic network into developed areas in the park to improve telecommunications and allow for the removal of microwave dishes and other telecommunication equipment atop mountaintops and at backcountry locations.
"The Yellowstone River is the last major undammed river in the lower 48 states, flowing 671 miles (1080 km) from its source southeast of Yellowstone into the Missouri River and then, eventually, into the Atlantic Ocean. "
Grizzlies in Yellowstone National Park are out and about looking for meals after their hibernation. One spotted by a pilot was drawn to a carcass that wolves were working on.
Six young plains bison have arrived at Waterton Lakes National Park, replenishing a small herd that had to be relocated during the 2017 Kenow Wildfire.
The National Park System is full of superlatives: the biggest, the smallest, the longest, the deepest, the rarest, the tallest, and on and on. National Parks Quiz and Trivia #26 takes a look at some of these superlatives while testing your knowledge and teaching you a little something you might not have known.
Roads in Yellowstone National Park will begin to close to over-snow travel this coming Sunday, March 7, and as the roads close snowplowing will start in preparation for spring in the national park.
Who owns the national parks? The answer used to be decisive – all Americans, and for all time. Indeed our national parks, proclaimed Wallace Stegner, are “the best idea we ever had.” But some of our citizens regard the national parks as evidence of dispossession, places stained by the sins of a nation that is not their own and whose history they now repudiate.
As Yellowstone National Park is moving from winter into the season of rebirth, spring, so too is the Yellowstone Forever organization being reborn, so to speak, with new leadership, a leaner budget, closer operational scrutiny, and a renewed commitment to supporting the park.
Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly was a recent guest on National Parks Traveler's weekly podcast. While the first half of that conversation centered around the park's response to Covid-19, the rest touched on various aspects of Yellowstone, from the lake trout invasion of Yellowstone Lake and infrastructure needs to ongoing conservation work in the park. Here's a portion of that conversation.
This week we continue our conversation with Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly on the state of his park. We discuss efforts to greatly reduce the number of invasive lake trout in Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone’s infrastructure needs, and some of the conservation projects park staff are working on.