Yellowstone National Park News
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Yellowstone National Park News Releases
News releases from Yellowstone National Park.
Yellowstone Visitation Through October Tops Previous Annual Record
Posted: November 4th, 2009
The number of visitors to Yellowstone National Park the first ten months of 2009 exceeded the park’s previous annual visitation record set in 2007.
Yellowstone Awards Contract For New Wastewater Treatment Plant
Posted: November 4th, 2009
Yellowstone National Park is using money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to replace a failing wastewater treatment plant at Madison Junction. Completion is slated for Summer 2012.
Last Weekend To Drive To Old Faithful And Canyon Until Spring
Posted: October 28th, 2009
Roads into the interior of Yellowstone National Park close to automobile traffic at eight o’clock Monday morning, November second. After that date, there will be no auto travel to places like Old Faithful, Canyon, and Fishing Bridge until the deep winter snowpack is cleared from the roads in the spring. This seasonal closure allows the park to make preparations to reopen for snowmobile and snowcoach travel beginning December 15, 2009.
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United faces landing suit
Posted: November 7th, 2009
United Airlines is facing a suit in Washington state from a woman who claims she was injured in a landing incident similar to one that occurred at the Jackson Hole Airport in 2008.
Lower Valley grapples with demand increase
Posted: November 7th, 2009
Lower Valley Energy plans to look beyond its main power supplier to support additional demand in coming years.
Park awards contract for wastewater project
Posted: November 7th, 2009
Yellowstone National Park officials have awarded a $4.68 million contract to replace a 50-year-old wastewater treatment facility at Madison Junction.
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Montana, Wyoming Lodges Take Guide's Top Honors
Posted: September 10th, 2009
Away.com, a leading website for travel planning, has listed a Montana and a Wyoming destination on its latest list of top resorts. The "Best Resorts & Lodges Guide," as described by the Away.com press release, offers "in-depth profiles of 200 of the world's best destination resorts across ten popular travel categories," chosen by a team of travel experts. And the experts liked what they saw out West.
Wolf Hunts Will Go On; Judge Denies Injunction Bid
Posted: September 9th, 2009
The Montana and Idaho wolf hunts will not irreparably harm wolf populations and may proceed, according to a ruling filed last night by U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy.
Molloy on Aug. 31 heard arguments from environmental groups seeking to halt the fall wolf hunts--the first of their kind in the lower 48--on the grounds that the killings would irreparably harm the species, which was on the Endangered Species List until just this spring. The coalition of 13 environmental groups, which has sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in an attempt to restore federal protections for the gray wolf, asked Molloy to issue an injunction to stop the hunts, arguing that killing even a single wolf is a problem.
In a 14-page ruling, Molloy disagreed, and said the "low threshold" for irreparable harm--a single wolf death--was not supported by the law.
Three Views of the Wolf Wars: A Hunter, Advocate, and Game Official Speak Out
Posted: August 25th, 2009
Twenty five miles upriver from St. Maries in the town of Calder, John Walters eats a burger in the cafe. On his table by the window newspapers are opened to pages with wolf pictures. A recent ruling by the Idaho Fish and Game Commission that establishes the latest attempt at a hunting season for gray wolves in Idaho is the top story.
Walters, one of the directors of the Idaho Anti-Wolf Coalition, planned to be first in line to buy a hunting tag when they went on sale Monday for $11.25 per resident. He called his attorney a few days before an injunction was filed Aug. 20 by Earthjustice to stop the hunt. Thirteen groups were named in the suit.
He asked his attorney whether he could sue Fish and Game for fraud if the heavily advertised wolf hunting season didn't transpire. "He said no, because an injunction hasn't been filed yet to close the season," says Walters, between bites of his burger.
Walters has been fighting for years for the right to kill wolves or sue the federal government for what he calls an illegal introduction of wolves into the state. A barrel of a man with long hair going gray, he's a former construction worker who was injured on the job and now collects disability.
The Coeur d'Alene, Idaho native moved to the St. Joe Country in 1983 after years of advocating for the Fish and Game department that he is now at odds with. The agency, in Walters' opinion, has turned tail on the hunting public--people who buy hunting licenses and who expect Fish and Game to manage the herds so hunters can bag bulls and bucks.
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