Yellowstone News and Information

  Yellowstone sees rebirth of wolves along ancient Native American trails

  NEWS RELEASE National Park Service announces decision on future management of bison at Yellowstone National Park Bison grazing in Round Prairie near Pebble Creek Campground NPS / Jacob W. Frank News Release Date:  July 24, 2024 Contact:   Morgan Warthin , (307) 344-2015 MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY –  Today, July 24, the National Park Service (NPS) announced a decision about the  future management of bison  at Yellowstone National Park. The  Record of Decision , a culmination of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and National Environmental Policy Act process that began in 2022, will allow the NPS to manage bison based on new scientific information and circumstances that have changed since the previous EIS, completed in 2000. The NPS is implementing this decision because of new scientific information about bison and brucellosis transmission and changed circumstances that include fewer cattle near the park, brucellosis regulations, and Tribal hunting. ...

How A Dream To Bring Back Wild Buffalo Is Slowly Decolonizing Tribal Land

  NEWS RELEASE 116 Yellowstone bison transferred to Fort Peck Tribes Bison leaving Stephens Creek, headed to Fort Peck as part of the Bison Conservation Transfer Program NPS / Jacob W. Frank News Release Date:  February 14, 2024 Contact:   Morgan Warthin , (307) 344-2015 MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – During the week of Feb. 5, the National Park Service (NPS) and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) moved 116 Yellowstone National Park bison to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Poplar, Montana. The  Bison Conservation Transfer Program  continues to make history, having relocated the largest number of live Yellowstone bison to American Indian Tribes in the world. The bison transferred to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation included 108 males, four females and four calves.   Since 2019, a total of 414 Yellowstone bison have been transferred to the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes at Fort Peck. Nearly all of those bison and their offspring have then bee...

Wyoming History: Yellowstone’s Place In The Last Stand Of The Nez Perce Almost Lost To History

  Yellowstone National Park to host Yellowstone Revealed 2023 at Madison Junction Aug. 10-12           Yellowstone Revealed: All Nations Teepee Village by Mountain Time Arts            NPS / Ashton Hooker MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – Yellowstone National Park is honored to host for a second year Yellowstone Revealed, a collaborative effort with Mountain Time Arts. From Aug. 10-12 at Madison Junction, Yellowstone Revealed 2023 will present an interactive, self-guided experience that combines art and storytelling. The experience will take visitors on a thought-provoking Indigenous narrative journey about the shared past, present and future of teepee lodges sited where the Gibbon River joins the Firehole River to form the Madison River. Visitors to the park are invited to participate in this free experience.   For three days, contemporary artworks by artists Sean Chandler (Aaniiih) and Ben Pease (Apsáalooke/Tsétsêhéstâ...

  Yellowstone National Park to host the Lighting of Teepees Aug. 1-7 Visitors invited to learn about the historic and continued presence of American Indian Tribes in the Yellowstone region        Illuminated teepees and Milky Way at North Entrance in Gardiner, Montana, 2022         NPS / Jacob W. Frank MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY –  Yellowstone National Park is honored to host for a second year the Lighting of Teepees, a collaborative effort with Pretty Shield Foundation and Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council. From Aug. 1-7, visitors to the park are invited to view the teepees at the Roosevelt Arch in Gardiner, Montana, and learn about the historic and continued presence of American Indian Tribes in the Yellowstone region. The Lighting of Teepees: An Era of Unity and Inclusivity will include seven installed teepees that will be illuminated nightly at sunset. It will be free and open to the public. A sincere thank you to all the event...

  Yellowstone Tribal Heritage Center opens for second season       Mason Runs Through (Assiniboine) engaging with Yellowstone Tribal Heritage Center visitors.       YF / Alyssa McGeeley MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – On Wednesday, May 17, 2023, the  Yellowstone Tribal Heritage Center  opens to the public for the season. Located in the Old Faithful area, the Yellowstone Tribal Heritage Center is a space where Indigenous artists, scholars and presenters from the 27  associated Tribes  of Yellowstone National Park directly engage with visitors through demonstrations and discussions. Now in its second year, the center is a partnership between the National Park Service and Yellowstone Forever, with Tribal consultation. During the 2023 season, 37 presenters from 18 associated Tribes will directly engage with Yellowstone visitors through formal and informal education. Presentations will include photography, beadwork, moccasin making, dancing, s...

Mass Yellowstone Hunt Kills 1150 Bison

  Land of Steam: An Apsáalooke writer shares three stories that shed light on his people’s connections to the lands of Yellowstone

  Movement to ‘re-indigenize’ Yellowstone gains steam

Yellowstone hosts Indigenous art displays, talks in August

  NEWS RELEASE Yellowstone’s Mount Doane name changes to First Peoples Mountain; Action taken to remove offensive name from America’s first national park Commemorate 150 Years of Yellowstone First Peoples Mountain (center) rises between Top Notch Peak (foreground) and Mt. Stevenson (back right) seen from Avalanche Peak NPS / Jacob W. Frank MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – Yellowstone National Park announced today that Mount Doane is now named First Peoples Mountain. Today’s announcement follows a 15-0 vote affirming the change by the  U.S. Board on Geographic Names  (BGN), the federal body responsible for maintaining uniform geographic name usage throughout the federal government. First Peoples Mountain is a 10,551-foot peak within Yellowstone National Park east of Yellowstone Lake in the southeastern portion of the park. The peak was previously named after Gustavus Doane, a key member of the Washburn-Langford-Doane expedition in 1870 prior to Yellowstone becoming America’s firs...

  Wyoming Celebrates 150th Anniversary Of Yellowstone National Park also

Land of Steam: North America's first people's relationship to North America's first park

Yellowstone Is Turning 150 — Here's How You Can Celebrate the Park and Learn More About Its Indigenous Roots  

NEWS RELEASE 28 bison transferred from Yellowstone to Fort Peck Tribes; Partners celebrate another positive step for bison conservation Bison leaving Stephens Creek, headed to Fort Peck as part of the Bison Conservation Transfer Program NPS / Jacob W. Frank MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Wednesday, January 12, the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Fort Peck Indian Reservation completed the transfer of 28 Yellowstone bison to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Poplar, Montana, under the Bison Conservation Transfer Program. All the bison completed Phases I & II of the brucellosis quarantine protocol at Yellowstone National Park and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) facilities and will finish assurance testing (Phase III) at Fort Peck (see information below for details about the protocol). The National Park Service (NPS), APHIS, State of Montana, and Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes started the Bison Conservation Transfer Program to identify brucellosis-free bison...

NEWS RELEASE Yellowstone National Park turns 150 in 2022 Elk walking by a teepee next to a large stone archway  North Entrance teepee installation event  NPS / Jacob W. Frank MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – March 1, 2022, marks the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Yellowstone National Park. Signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant, America's first national park was set aside to preserve and protect the scenery, cultural heritage, wildlife, geologic and ecological systems and processes in their natural condition for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations. Yellowstone serves as the core of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, one of the largest nearly intact natural ecosystems remaining on the planet. Yellowstone has the most active, diverse, and intact collections of combined geothermal features with over 10,000 hydrothermal sites and half the world's active geysers. The park is also rich in cultural and historical resources with 25 sites, landmarks a...

  Bison from Yellowstone National Park coming to tribal lands in Oklahoma, Washington

  56 Bison transferred from Fort Peck to tribal lands