Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone Reopens Comment Period On Proposal To Expand WiFi Coverage

Additional public comment is being taken through June 10 by Yellowstone National Park staff on a proposal to install more than 500 antennas ranging in size from 7 inches to 6 feet in diameter for improved Wi-Fi service at the park's developed areas.

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By Kurt Repanshek - May 28th, 2020 1:45am

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Photography In The National Parks: Even More Favorite Places For Photography

Contributing photographer Rebecca Latson has visited quite a few national parks within the past two decades. In this month’s column, Rebecca shares with you even more of her favorite spots for photography in the national parks she’s visited.

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By Rebecca Latson - May 26th, 2020 8:05am

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Yellowstone Superintendent Pleased With Early Days Of Visitation

Visitors to Yellowstone National Park this week have not fully embraced social distancing practices, but overall Superindendent Cam Sholly is pleased with how the reopening has gone so far.

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By NPT Staff - May 21st, 2020 6:48pm

Bison Headbutts Woman At Yellowstone National Park

Bison 1, visitors 0. That's the tally at Yellowstone National Park just three days into its reopening as a woman was knocked to the ground Wednesday by a bison in the Upper Geyser Basin.

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By NPT Staff - May 20th, 2020 6:57pm

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National Parks Quiz And Trivia #8

You can learn quite a bit from children's books. To prove this point, information from a children's book about national parks has been used for National Parks Quiz And Trivia #8. See how much you know, and how much you learn.

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By Rebecca Latson - May 18th, 2020 1:45am

Yellowstone National Park Trespasser Burned By Fall Into Thermal Feature

A woman who illegally ventured into Yellowstone National Park with hopes of photographing Old Faithful without throngs of milling tourists somehow stumbled into a thermal feature and sustained burns that required her to be helicoptered to a hospital.

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By Kurt Repanshek - May 13th, 2020 9:28am

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Summer landscape in Yellowstone National Park

A summer landscape of rolling hills, forest, distant mountains and a river running through a part of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming

In addition to amazing hot springs, geysers, and wildlife, Yellowstone National Park hosts a landscape of thick forests, rolling hills, and tall mountains through which run "some 1,000 rivers and streams to make up approximately 2,500 miles of running water."

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Yellowstone Country

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By Rebecca Latson - August 18th, 2020 7:58pm

Interior Department Extends Bison Conservation Initiative For A Decade

Efforts to better understand genetic pools held within the Interior Department's roughly 11,000 bison and to bolster conservation and ecological efforts with states and tribes were boosted Thursday when Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced a decade-long initiative to support that work.

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By Kurt Repanshek - May 7th, 2020 5:37pm

A summer view of Crested Pool at Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park

A summer view of Crested Pool at Upper Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park, in Wyoming

Yellowstone National Park hosts almost half of the world's geysers, most of which can be seen at Upper Geyser Basin. Yellowstone also has many beautiful hot springs, like Crested Pool. The colors you see at hot springs and geysers are indicative of the temperatures. The beautiful blue color of Crested Pool means the water in this hot spring is - well - really, really hot (199+ degrees F).

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Crested Pool

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By Rebecca Latson - July 8th, 2021 7:40pm

Will Coronavirus Spur Changes To How We Visit National Parks?

Leading up to the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service back in 2016, there was much discussion about the future of the parks. Perhaps the hallmark was the Second Century Commission's report, prepared following a year of listening sessions, professional input, and discussion. Within its outline for strengthening the Park Service and the national parks in the 21st century were recommendations for better conservation of park resources, both natural and cultural. A decade later, the Park Service remains strapped for funds, overworked, and struggling in some places to manage crowds that impact natural resources and stress staff.

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By Kurt Repanshek - May 3rd, 2020 1:45am

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