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Yellowstone National Park News Releases
News releases from Yellowstone National Park.
Park Reminds Visitors to Stay Safe Distance from Wildlife This Fall go to article
The onset of fall in Yellowstone, with its cooler temperatures and snow in the high country, prompts many animals to start moving to lower elevations. Yellowstone’s road corridors, campgrounds, and other developments were built primarily in lower elevation areas. This can result in great wildlife viewing opportunities for visitors. However, with these opportunities comes an increased risk of visitors being injured if they get too close to wildlife. It can be challenging to manage both wildlife behaving naturally and the people viewing them.
Hunters Reminded of Yellowstone Regulations go to article
With the opening of hunting seasons on lands surrounding Yellowstone National Park, hunters are reminded that hunting is not permitted within the park. Though most of the park boundary is well marked, it is the responsibility of the hunters to ensure they do not hunt within the park.
Canyon Rim Paving Project to Begin After Labor Day go to article
Work is set to begin right after the Labor Day holiday weekend on a stretch of road along the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
Jackson Hole News & Guide
Reflecting the unique character of Jackson Hole.
Angler still missing go to article
A fishing guide and fixture of the Teton Valley, Idaho, angling community remained missing Thursday after his boat capsized the day before on the South Fork of the Snake River, a law enforcement official said.
Bank makes winning bid on Village parcel go to article
After months of back and forth with developer Rob DesLauriers, Bank of America on Thursday took another step toward foreclosing on a multimillion dollar lot in Teton Village.
Town building permits stay steady in August go to article
The number of building permits the town of Jackson issued in August kept pace with the same month last year.
NewWest.net - Jackson Hole, WY
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Brad Watson's "Aliens" Serves Up Despair, with a Side of Humor go to article
Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives by Brad Watson W.W. Norton and Company, 268 pages, $23.95 In Brad Watson's new story collection, Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives, most of the families crumble, some almost as quickly as they form. Watson grew up in Mississippi, has taught creative writing at the University of Wyoming since 2005, and sets most of his stories in the American South. Although family disintegration is a common subject for short fiction, Watson's stories are full of surprises, often involving a note of the uncanny, such as a disturbing fortune teller who might be a gypsy, and a mysterious couple who could be escapees from a mental institution, or, as they claim in the absorbing title story, aliens from another planet. In several stories, women have a craving to eat dirt--the practice called geophagy, once common in Mississippi among poor white and black women--that in Watson's stories gives the women an otherworldly quality, as though they have one foot among the living and one among the dead. Brad Watson will discuss Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives at the Tattered Cover (Colfax) on Monday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m.
Wyoming Writers Roll On & Western Heritage Awards Announced go to article
And now the moment we've all been waiting for: two weeks ago I asked New West readers to vote on what book I should review next. I was delighted and relieved when several people voted. The winner, with four votes, is Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West by Marcia Meredith Hensley. I'll review it next Monday. And since the voting was so tight, I plan to review the runner-up, How it Looks Going Back by Doris Knowles Pulis, in a few weeks as well. As for the other two books: they'll go back on my guilt pile, and I'll get to them as soon as I can. Every time I open the cabinet where I keep my un-reviewed books, the books scream, "Pick me! Pick me!" I'm okay with it, but it frightens the kids. • Wyofile has an in-depth feature by Susan Gray Gose on Wyoming mystery and thriller novelist C.J. Box. Gray Gose writes that Box "cranks out 1,000 words a day," "publishes two books a year," and that one of his novels could be adapted into a screenplay soon: "The producers of About Schmidt (the 2002 New Line Cinema comedy) bought the rights to Blue Heaven. While many optioned books languish, this one seems to be moving forward. It's received financing, and actors Jack Nicholson, Alec Baldwin and Joe Pesci have signed on."
Temple Grandin's Life Story Hits the Small Screen go to article
The movie "Temple Grandin," about the life of Temple Grandin, the Colorado writer, animal expert, and advocate for people with autism, premiered on HBO this weekend. The movie stars Claire Danes, a casting choice that Grandin told Erin O'Toole of KUNC she was "absolutely delighted" with. Grandin spoke with O'Toole as she was in the midst of traveling around the country to promote the film. Grandin said of Danes, "She put this wig on and dressed up in my clothes and became me." Grandin is pleased with the movie. "I love the way the movie shows how my mind works," she said. (I reviewed Grandin's most recent book, Animals Make Us Human, last year.) • One of my favorite writers, Edward P. Jones, is the "eminent writer in residence" at the University of Wyoming in Laramie this semester. I saw on the Wyoming Arts Blog that Jones will read and sign his books Thursday, Feb. 18, at 5 p.m. in the University Wyoming Union ballroom. If you haven't checked out Jones' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Known World or his two masterful story collections, do yourself a favor and get reading! Also in the Roundup: Edward P. Jones and Alyson Hagy read in Laramie, the Patagonia Public Library throws its annual Writers' Round-up, Dave Cullen is in the running for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, New Mexico honors its writers, and Denver teens pick their favorite book of the year.
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