Yellowstone News and Information

  NEWS RELEASE Yellowstone National Park increases protection for bears and visitor safety by implementing changes to two bear management areas Skiers spot Yellowstone’s first grizzly bear of 2024 Grizzly boar walks along the edge of Blacktail Ponds NPS / Jacob W. Frank Subscribe    |  What is RSS News Release Date:  March 13, 2024 Contact:   Morgan Warthin , (307) 344-2015 MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – To protect bears and increase visitor safety, Yellowstone National Park will create a new  bear management area  (BMA) in Hayden Valley, which will prohibit off-trail travel July 15-Sept. 15. The park also decommissioned an existing BMA in the Firehole River area. Additionally, skiers observed the first grizzly bear of 2024 on March 3. Changes to Two Bear Management Areas Yellowstone is implementing a new 16,453-acre Hayden Valley BMA, located on the west side of the Grand Loop Road in Hayden Valley in the central part of the park. In this BMA, Mary Mountain Trail will remain open for recre

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  News Release Highly food conditioned grizzly bear euthanized Public can help save bears by properly securing attractants Date: October 19, 2021 Contact: C.J. Adams, 307.739.3431 MOOSE, WY— For public safety, Grand Teton National Park officials, in coordination with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, euthanized a highly food-conditioned, four-year-old female grizzly bear on Saturday, October 16. This action was taken after the bear received numerous food rewards from unsecured sources, causing it to exhibit increasingly bold behavior. This behavior caused the bear to pose a threat to human safety and therefore it was removed from the population. Over the course of two years, the grizzly received multiple food rewards and demonstrated escalating conflict behavior. In October of 2020, the bear accessed numerous unsecured attractants at a private residence south of the park. During the fall of 2021, the grizzly

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  News Release Illinois woman charged in Yellowstone case involving a grizzly receives four days in federal custody and fines Grizzly sow & yearling cub, Roaring Mountain NPS / Neal Herbert News Release Date: October 7, 2021 Contact: Lori Hogan (Contractor), United States Attorney Spokesman , 307-772-2124 Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that SAMANTHA R DEHRING , age 25 of Carol Stream, Illinois, pleaded guilty to willfully remaining, approaching, and photographing wildlife within 100 yards. The other count, feeding, touching, teasing, frightening, or intentionally disturbing wildlife, was dismissed. Dehring appeared in front of Magistrate Judge Mark L. Carman in Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming on October 6, 2021, for her change of plea and sentencing hearing. She was sentenced to four days in custody, one-year unsupervised probation, and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine, a $1,000 community service payment to Yellowstone Forever

  Grizzly bear that killed man and charged rescuers near Yellowstone was likely guarding food, investigators say also see West Yellowstone Man Found To Be At Fault For Fatal Grizzly Attack - Cowboy State Journal  

News Release Illinois woman charged in Yellowstone National Park case involving grizzly sow and cubs Park Entrance sign and Sepulcher Mountain NPS / Jacob W. Frank News Release Date: August 2, 2021 Contact: Mark Trimble, United States Attorney Spokesman , 307-772-2124 Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that SAMANTHA R DEHRING , age 25 of Carol Stream, Illinois, was charged with one count of willfully remaining, approaching, and photographing wildlife within 100 yards and one count of feeding, touching, teasing, frightening, or intentionally disturbing wildlife. Dehring is expected to appear in front of Magistrate Judge Mark L. Carman in Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming on August 26, 2021, for her arraignment.  According to the violation notices, Dehring was at Roaring Mountain in Yellowstone National Park on May 10, 2021, when visitors noticed a sow grizzly and her three cubs. While other visitors slowly backed off and got i

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