The roads to Yellowstone have been plowed but cars won’t be allowed in until April 26. The National Park Service has opened them to cyclists in the meantime. You’re required to ride single-file and turn around if you encounter wildlife on the road, and since bears are quite hungry right now it’s good to follow [ more... ]

After Yellowstone announced that the park would have to open several weeks late due to budget concerns, citizens from the gateway towns have jumped in to volunteer and get the park running on time. It’s thoughtful and selfless, and it’s the best thing they can do to protect their own economic interests since they derive [ more... ]

Seven wolves with ties to Yellowstone have been killed by hunters out of a population of 88 wolves in the park. The wolves were legally killed by hunters on lands abutting the park. The park knows they’ve lost at least seven wolves because all of them were collard. Conservationists are worried that hunters are targeting [ more... ]

The 1,500 barrels of crude oil that poured into the Yellowstone River following severe flooding in 2011 caused more property damage in Montana than all other accidents combined in the state over the last decade. Fourteen landowners have sued asking for unspecified claims for damage to health, wildlife, and livestock operations. The lawsuit alleges that [ more... ]

A teenage concessionaire at Yellowstone National Park died on her first day on the job after falling 400ft during a hike with her new co-workers. The 18-year-old was on the North Rim Trail when she ventured off trail onto a loose rock promontory which gave way. The woman had lined up a summer job working [ more... ]

Cinematographer and photographer David Stubbs gives us a look inside the Greater Yellowstone area in a two-minute reel. A nice breath of life from the great wide West.

The widow of a man killed by a grizzly is suing the federal government for $5 million dollars. While most of these lawsuits can be easily dismissed, this one might actually have some merit. Federal biologists had trapped and tagged the bear about 7 miles from Yellowstone’s entrance. After adding the radio collar they took [ more... ]

Wyoming’s governor is calling for more snowmobiles to be granted access to Yellowstone? It must be fall. Calling on his extraordinary expertise on Yellowstone and ecology, Gov. Matt Mead pulled the number 540 snowmobiles per day out of thin air. While the NPS conducts another impact study, the current limit is about 330 snowmobiles and [ more... ]

Authorities in Yellowstone have trapped a 420-pound grizzly at the site of the fatal mauling of a man from Michigan. It was the second fatal mauling in Yellowstone, though the first bear was allowed to survive since rangers determined it was a defensive attack. The recently trapped bear has had hair samples taken and then [ more... ]

Montana authorities are saying that fillets cut from 58 fish taken from the river in Yellowstone that was affected by 42,000 barrels of Exxon oil are showing no oil. They’ve declared the fish safe to eat. There was oil found in the fish livers and gonads, so the fish might disagree that there were no [ more... ]