Yellowstone News and Information

  NEWS RELEASE National Park Service and American Forests partner to restore threatened whitebark pine as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda        Whitebark Pine direct seeding project with American Forests         NPS / Jacob W. Frank WASHINGTON (Sept. 26, 2023) – The National Park Service (NPS) and American Forests have signed a five-year agreement to help return threatened whitebark pine to its range in the western U.S. As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the partnership will support restoration activities in national parks where whitebark pine grows. Initial projects in Yellowstone, Glacier and Grand Teton National Parks are part of  $44 million  in funding from the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest climate and conservation investment in history.   Through the Investing in America agenda, the Dep...

'Location for education': Yellowstone's school shows unique park history

  Letter from the NPS Director on the 150th Anniversary of Yellowstone National Park Celebrating Yellowstone and the Promise of the National Park Idea NPS Director Chuck Sams poses with his family in front of a hill covered in vegetation National Park Service Director Chuck Sams and family visit Yellowstone National Park in 2011 Chuck Sams News Release Date: March 1, 2022 Today we celebrate the 150th birthday of Yellowstone National Park. For nearly seven generations now the American people and our guests have been able to experience the beauty and majesty of Old Faithful, Minerva Terrace, Morning Glory Pool, the Grand Prismatic Spring, and the Yellowstone River, and marvel at the bison, wolves, elk, wildflowers and many other breathtaking sites.   We also celebrate something much bigger than the park itself—the beginning of the national park idea, an idea that spread through the country and around the world, inspiring governments to protect natural and cultural treasures...

NEWS RELEASE Santa Rosa man sentenced to nine months in jail for assaulting law enforcement officers in Yellowstone National Park Lake Yellowstone Hotel Lake Yellowstone Hotel            Xanterra United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that BENJAMIN J. BAGALA, age 27, of Santa Rosa, California pleaded guilty and was sentenced for three counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees and one count of depredation against property of the United States. He appeared via Zoom before United States Magistrate Judge Mark L. Carman and was sentenced to nine months imprisonment, with credit served for four days and must surrender on or before March 4, 2022. He also received one year supervised release with special conditions that include a ban from Yellowstone National Park; he shall not use or possess alcohol, shall not enter into bars, pubs, lounges, etc., and will continue with alcohol treatment as approved by the probation offi...

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  News Release Youth Conservation Program in Grand Teton marks 15 years of impact Program stewards next generation of conservation leaders YCP Crew, Grand Teton National Park 2019 News Release Date: July 6, 2021 Contact: Denise Germann, 307-739-3393 Contact: CJ Adams, 307-739-3431 Contact: Leslie Mattson, 307-732-0629 MOOSE, WY- Grand Teton National Park Foundation and Grand Teton National Park are celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of the Youth Conservation Program (YCP). YCP was launched in 2006 to steward the next generation of conservation leaders—aligning with the core mission of the National Park Service to foster a land ethic and an appreciation for the outdoors in young people. This powerful and immersive program employs sixteen to nineteen-year-olds on Grand Teton’s trail crew, accomplishing critical stewardship projects while also cultivating job skills and supporting aspiring leaders as they make career and lifestyle de...

  News Release Tourism to Yellowstone creates $560 million in economic benefits Report shows visitor spending supports 6,110 jobs in local economy Yellowstone National Park sign at sunset at the North Entrance NPS / Jacob W. Frank News Release Date: June 15, 2021 Contact: Morgan Warthin , (307) 344-2015 MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 3.8 million people to Yellowstone National Park in 2020 spent over $444 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 6,110 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $560 million. The peer-reviewed visitor spending analysis was conducted by economists with the NPS and the U.S. Geological Survey. The report shows $14.5 billion of direct spending by more than 237 million park visitors in communities within 60 miles of a national park. This spending supported 234,000 jobs nationally; 194,400 of those jobs are found in the...