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Yellowstone, Grand Teton National Parks Close Over Coronavirus Concerns

By Eric Young • Mar 24, 2020
Yellowstone visitors line up at the park's north entrance outside of Gardiner, Montana.
Yellowstone National Park (PD)

Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks announced Tuesday they’re closing to all visitors, effective immediately.

The closure comes days after area county health officials and Montana and Wyoming’s governors called for the parks to close to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Worries Over Rural Health Facilities Prompt Calls For Yellowstone's Closure

By • Mar 23, 2020

Park and Gallatin County health officials are asking Yellowstone National Park to close immediately to prevent visitors from potentially spreading COVID-19 in gateway communities and overwhelming local health care facilities. 

Yellowstone Biologists Report First Grizzly Sighting Of 2020

By • Mar 10, 2020
The first grizzly bear sighted in Yellowstone in 2020.
Kira Cassidy / Yellowstone National Park

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Biologists have recorded a grizzly bear sighting in Yellowstone National Park, marking the first of the year in the park.

Biologists saw the bear Saturday near Grand Prismatic Spring, a hot spring in northwestern Wyoming, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported.

Yellowstone Begins Bison Captures As It Seeks To Cull Herd

By • Mar 2, 2020
Bison at the Stephens Creek Capture facility north of Yellowstone Park in 2015.
Jim Peaco - NPS (PD)

Yellowstone National Park has started capturing bison migrating outside the park and will hold them in pens for possible slaughter as part of a population reduction program, officials said Monday.

The annual operation began Sunday and by mid-day Monday six bison had been captured as they entered the Gardiner Basin along the Yellowstone-Montana border, park spokeswoman Linda Veress said.

West Yellowstone Tourist Bookings Drop Due To Coronavirus Restrictions In China

By • Feb 28, 2020
A tour bus entering Yellowstone Park from the West Yellowstone entrance.
Yellowstone National Park (PD)

Restrictions on air travel out of China due to the coronavirus are already having an impact on Montana’s tourism season. Businesses in West Yellowstone say bookings by Chinese tourists are down.

Yellowstone National Park Uses Facebook Live To Commemorate Wolf Reintrodution

By • Feb 28, 2020

 

Yellowstone National Park wildlife biologists will host Facebook Live events each Tuesday in March to commemorate the 25th anniversary of wolf reintroduction in the park. 

Yellowstone Plans Employee Housing Upgrades

By • Feb 20, 2020
Among other upgrades, Yellowstone Park plans to replace 64 trailers that were built between 1960 and 1983. The park says those trailers, that annually house up to 100 employees, are extremely substandard.
Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park has unveiled a major initiative to upgrade employee housing, which park officials say is long overdue.

About half of Yellowstone National Park’s 800 employees live in park housing. Park spokeswoman Morgan Warthin describes the quality of that housing as, “Fair to poor.”

Coyote That Bit Woman Tests Negative For Rabies

By • Jan 30, 2020

Yellowstone National Park officials say the coyote that attacked and injured a cross country skier Tuesday has tested negative for rabies.

The unidentified 43-year-old woman was bitten by a coyote while skiing in the Canyon Village area.

Coyote Bites Skier In Yellowstone

By • Jan 29, 2020
A crosscountry skier in Yellowstone National Park.
Nate Hegyi

Yellowstone National Park officials say a coyote attacked and injured a cross country skier on the morning of Tuesday, January 28.

Men Caught Walking On Old Faithful Banned For 5 Years

By • Jan 9, 2020

Two men pleaded guilty in December to trespassing on the cone of Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park. 

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