Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park long has been recognized as being home to the world's greatest collection of geysers and thermal features. Now a natural disaster on the other size of the globe has heightened the significance of Yellowstone's hot water works.
The great bison shuttle is scheduled to be pulled off today as Montana officials round up wayward bison that have decided the grass is indeed greener outside of Yellowstone.
Just as promised earlier this year, a coalition of conservation groups has filed a lawsuit in a bid to stop the federal government from removing grizzly bears from Endangered Species Act protection.
Time is running out to comment on Yellowstone's winter-use management plan. The deadline is midnight, local time, tomorrow night. You can comment online at this site. For what it's worth, here's what I had to say:
If you haven't heard by now, a temporary solution has been reached between the state of Montana and Yellowstone National Park officials over some 300 bison that have moved west of the park.
While most of the attention on national parks has been focused this week on the roll-out of Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne's report on the Centennial Initiative, there was other news involving parks.




















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