Firing a semi-automatic rifle while walking toward Canyon Lodge in Yellowstone National Park, the Florida man reportedly was determined to conduct a mass shooting on July 4 when law enforcement rangers killed him in a shootout that left one ranger wounded.

During the early hours of Thursday morning July 4, there was a significant law enforcement incident at Canyon Village in the central part of Yellowstone National Park.

Every year since 2017, the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory has summarized yearly geological activity—earthquakes, ground deformation, geyser eruptions, and so forth—and research efforts and findings in a series of annual reports. In these products you can find information about the numbers of seismic swarms in a given year, or the progress made on geologic mapping and dating of Yellowstone deposits, and even the thermal emissions from Yellowstone National Park as detected by satellites.

A Washington state man who left a boardwalk to approach Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park has been sentenced to seven days in jail and fined $1,500.