Yellowstone News

Between Dec. 27 and Jan. 2, more than 500 small earthquakes shook Yellowstone National Park. The swarm of quakes was centered below Yellowstone Lake, beginning southeast of Stevenson Island and migrating north toward Fishing Bridge before quieting.

The notable swarm of earthquakes that started December 26, 2008, beneath Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park has stopped for now and may have ceased entirely.

Ranchers are voicing concern about plans to relocate some Yellowstone Park bison to Indian reservations in Montana and Wyoming. The ranchers are worried about the animals' history of carrying brucellosis, a disease that causes domestic cows to miscarry.

Hundreds of small earthquakes have struck Yellowstone National Park in the western U.S. during the past four days, the “most intense” series of tremors in the area in “some years,” the University of Utah reported.

The old "Bombers" aren't so old anymore. The aged, yellow and red Bombardier snow coaches — the first machines to carry winter visitors into Yellowstone National Park — are now greener under the hood.

We were expecting to see plenty of wildlife on a winter outing to Yellowstone National Park, but — silly us — we thought we might have to get through the entrance first.

State and federal agencies, after signing an agreement Wednesday in Montana, will begin tolerating some bison that wander out of Yellowstone National Park to winter range near the north and west entrances.

A last-minute regulation published today by the Bush Administration opens Yellowstone National Park, the country's most famous sanctuary for wildlife and natural quiet, to significantly more harm from snowmobiles than a federal court rejected in September as unlawful. The regulation authorizes double the level of snowmobile use recommended just last month by scientists and park managers in the National Park Service.

Less than a month after a Wyoming District Court judge instated a temporary 720-snowmobile rule for Yellowstone National Park, it has been challenged. The National Parks Conservation Association filed a motion on Dec. 3 asking Wyoming District Court Judge Clarence Brimmer to reconsider his decision and dismiss the case as moot.

In some ways, 1933 was not unlike 2008. Considered by many historians to be one of the worst years of the Great Depression, 1933 saw unemployment rise to a staggering 24.9 percent, and a bank crisis compelled Congress to pass the Emergency Banking Bill to stabilize the nation’s floundering economy.

The east gate to Yellowstone National Park opens in three weeks, and there will be snowmobiles. Beyond that, it’s anyone’s guess what will happen.

Americans are out of touch with the fact that the American bison, or buffalo, is in trouble as a wild species, but they do love them as an important symbol of their country, and as a meal on the dinner table.

Yellowstone National Park officials have opted to allow 720 snowmobiles a day in the park this winter, abandoning a temporary plan they proposed two weeks ago for 318 machines a day.

Natural forces over millennia created the geysers, peaks and canyons that fascinate visitors here. But a newer feature is emerging on this stunning landscape -- cellphone towers.

The latest judicial ruling on snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park illustrates why brokering a compromise among interested parties would be much preferable to seeking a legal remedy. If both sides in the dispute don't reach a consensus, this issue may never leave the court system. Any "permanent" plan issued by the National Park Service to allow -- or ban -- snowmobiles in Yellowstone will be subject to appeal by either conservation groups or the snowmobile industry and its supporters.