Yellowstone News and Information

  The Story of Old Faithful And What Makes It The Most Famous Geyser In The World

  Bison, elk and social distance: A photographer’s view from Yellowstone during delta

  8th Grizzly Released in the Bighorn Basin in Summer 2021

  National park managers search for answers to overcrowding

  News Release WARNING: Bull elk in Yellowstone National Park can be unpredictable and dangerous during fall mating season National Park Service News Release Date: September 2, 2021 Contact: Morgan Warthin , (307) 344-2015 The elk mating season has begun in Yellowstone National Park. Bull elk can be unpredictable and dangerous during this time. Stay alert! People have been severely injured by elk. Elk run quickly and may change direction without warning. Always maintain a distance of at least two bus lengths (25 yards) from elk. If an elk charges you, find shelter in your vehicle or behind a tall, sturdy barrier as quickly as possible. Follow directions from park rangers. You are responsible for your own safety .

  Objects at Hand: 10 Curious Park Artifacts  

  U.S. National Parks Propose ‘Selfie Stations’ to Combat Overcrowding

  Locating earthquakes in the Yellowstone region Release Date: August 30, 2021 Ever wonder how seismologists determine the location of an earthquake in Yellowstone?  It’s an intricate process, but thanks to experienced scientists, up to thousands of earthquakes are located in the Yellowstone region every year! Yellowstone  Caldera  Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Jamie Farrell, assistant research professor with the University of Utah Seismograph Stations and Chief Seismologist of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. Sources/Usage: Public Domain.  View Media Details Record section showing horizontal component seismograms from stations in the Yellowstone region from the M4.8 earthquake that occurred near Norris Geyser Basin on March 30, 2014.  The vertical blue dashed line represents the origin time o...

  CSCC Hosts SWAP Students From Yellowstone National Park

  News Release Jackson Lake Marinas to close for 2021 season NPS Photo/J. Bonney News Release Date: August 31, 2021 Contact: CJ Adams, 307-739-3431 MOOSE, WY—Grand Teton National Park visitors and boaters should continue to expect impacts to recreational activities, including earlier than normal closures of lake marinas, from the drawdown of Jackson Lake. Due to very low natural flows and the need to supplement downstream reservoirs, Jackson Lake has been drawn down to levels only seen three times in the last thirty years. Park concessions with marina facilities, Grand Teton Lodge Company and Signal Mountain Lodge Company , have modified operations in accordance with lake level changes. The Signal Mountain and Leek’s Marinas will close for the season on Monday, September 6. The Colter Bay Marina closed for the season on August 14. Boaters should also expect that park boat ramps on Jackson Lake will become unusable. Background Due to dro...

  Old Faithful never gets old

  News Release Temporary closure of Moose-Wilson Road lifted 08.28.2021 Visitors reminded to be bear aware and slow down through the area NPS Photo/C. Adams News Release Date: August 28, 2021 Contact: C.J. Adams, 307.739.3431 MOOSE, WY—The entire Moose-Wilson Road is now open. The northern section of the road had been closed for human safety and the protection of bears. Visitors are encouraged to slow down while driving as wildlife remain active through the area. Park staff will continue to monitor the situation. A closure could be reinitiated if bear activity increases again.   Rangers remind visitors to “Be Bear Aware,” as these animals are active throughout park and are feeding on ripened berries. All visitors are required to maintain a safe distance of at least 100 yards from bears and wolves and 25 yards from all other wildlife. When recreating in bear country, it is important to: BE ALERT watch for bears, fresh tracks, or scat. M...

  News Release Moose-Wilson Road Closure Update NPS Photo/C. Adams News Release Date: August 26, 2021 Contact: Denise Germann, 307-739-3393 Contact: CJ Adams, 307-739-3431 CLOSURE UPDATE, 1 p.m. The northern section of the Moose-Wilson Road, between Murie Ranch Junction and north of the Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve, is temporary closed to all visitors including motorists, cyclists, and hikers. Visitors can access the Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve from the south. There is currently no access to the Death Canyon Trailhead. Black and grizzly bears are currently eating berries along the Moose-Wilson Road. The road is closed for human safety and the protection of the bears. Park staff will monitor the situation and will reopen the road when conditions allow. The road could be temporarily closed through the weekend or longer.    Rangers remind the public to "Be Bear Aware." To learn more about recreating in bear count...

  News Release Connecticut woman sentenced for walking on thermal area in Yellowstone National Park People exploring the sights in Norris Geyser Basin NPS / Jacob W. Frank News Release Date: August 25, 2021 Contact: Mark Trimble, United States Attorney Spokesman , 307-772-2124 Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that  MADELINE S. CASEY , age 26 of New Hartford, Connecticut was sentenced to seven days in jail for walking on thermal ground at Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park. In addition, she was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine, $40 in fees and a $1,000 community service payment to the Yellowstone Forever Geological Resource Fund. Casey appeared in front of Magistrate Judge Mark L. Carman in Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming on August 18, 2021, for sentencing. Casey was with two other people as they made their way up to a thermal pool and geyser at Norris Geyser Basin. She and one other person got off the boardw...

  Deputies, rangers sued by family   see also  Lawsuit alleges Yellowstone National Park ranger kept family at gunpoint while searching for murder suspect  (New York Daily News)

  News Release Yellowstone National Park fire danger lowered to HIGH, stage 1 fire restrictions lifted due to widespread rain Fire Danger sign at HIGH NPS / Jacob W. Frank News Release Date: August 23, 2021 Contact: Morgan Warthin , 307-344-2015 Yellowstone National Park lowered the parkwide fire danger from very high to HIGH due to an average of two inches of rain that fell across the park the week of August 16.   Stage 1 fire restrictions  (put in place July 1) are no longer in effect. The park will evaluate the need for restrictions for the remainder of the fire season.  Campfires are allowed within established fire rings in campgrounds and some  backcountry campsites .   Campfires must always be attended and cold to the touch before abandoning. Soak, stir, feel and repeat unti...

Canoeing Yellowstone National Park's backcountry

  News Release Yellowstone lifts afternoon fishing closure on rivers and streams Fall fishing on the Madison River at sunrise NPS / Jacob W. Frank News Release Date: August 20, 2021 Contact: Morgan Warthin , (307) 344-2015 Yellowstone National Park responded to high water temperatures and unprecedented low stream flows in rivers and streams by instituting a fishing closure during the afternoon and evening (after 2 pm) as of July 24, 2021. Conditions at the time were stressful and even fatal for trout. Park scientists have monitored flow and temperature data since the closure. Temperatures of Yellowstone's rivers and streams have cooled, and flows have improved. Water temperatures are now well below thermal thresholds for trout and flows are returning to long-term averages.   Since conditions have improved, the fishing closure on park rivers and streams has been lifted as of Aug. 20, and anglers can resume fishing all day (sunrise to sun...

 Hebgen Lake earthquake remembered, 62 years later

  Tourists are flocking to Yellowstone and Island Park

  Bounties, Petitions, and Politics: Why the Wolf War Is Only Getting More Extreme

  Biden taps Oregon's Charles Sams to head the National Park Service

  'Hoot owl' restrictions lifted on portions of some Montana rivers

  News Release Yellowstone visitation statistics for July 2021 People exploring the Midway Geyser Basin boardwalks near Grand Prismatic NPS / Jacob W. Frank News Release Date: August 19, 2021 Contact: Morgan Warthin , (307) 344-2015 MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Yellowstone National Park hosted 1,080,767 recreation visits in July 2021, making it the most-visited July on record. This is a 13% increase from July 2020 (955,645 recreational visits) and a 15% increase from July 2019 (936,062 recreation visits). This July is also the most-visited month on record in Yellowstone’s history and the first time visitation exceeded 1 million visits in a single month.   So far in 2021, the park has hosted 2,668,765 recreation visits, up 16% from 2019. This year is compared to 2019 instead of 2020 because of COVID-19.     The list below shows the year-to-date trend for recreation visits over the last several years (through July):   2021 –...

  Yellowstone National Park Considering Timed Entry Plan

  Borehole instruments: The hidden component of geophysical monitoring in Yellowstone Release Date: August 16, 2021 When it comes to data, Yellowstone is a geophysicist’s dream. There is continuous activity from earthquakes, geysers, and of course, the volcano itself. A keen eye may be able to spot one of the park’s numerous GPS or seismometer stations hard at work, but some of the park’s data collectors are buried deep within the Earth, hidden from sight in boreholes. Yellowstone  Caldera  Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Courtenay Duzet, graduate student at the University of Montana and intern at UNAVCO. When it comes to monitoring data, Yellowstone is one of the best-covered volcanic systems in the world! Numerous instruments are distributed throughout the park to collect data for assessing the state of the vo...

  More than 1 million visit Yellowstone in July

  Keeping a promise: Yellowstone National Park builds new housing for employees

  National Park Service Now Requires Face Masks For All

  "Yellowstone Lake" LP Stands Out As A Rare Gem In Its Genre

  Interior Secretary Haaland praises infrastructure investments during YNP visit

  Interior Department Order Supports More Room for Wildlife to Roam

  World’s Top Seismologist: Yellowstone Volcano Is Still Not Going to Blow-Up Soon

  Bear and Wolf Encounter in Yellowstone National Park

  Groups Raise $500,000 in Fundraising Match to Support Yellowstone Bison Conservation

  Near Togwotee Pass, Continental Divide Trail gets a reroute

  News Release Erika Jostad selected as chief ranger She will lead a large and complex visitor and resource protection program NPS Photo/J. Bonney News Release Date: August 12, 2021 Contact: Denise Germann, 307-739-3393 Contact: CJ Adams, 307-739-3431 MOOSE, WY—Erika Jostad has been selected as Grand Teton National Park Chief Ranger and will begin her new duties in late August. Jostad is currently the chief ranger at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. She has over 25 years with the National Park Service.  As chief ranger at Grand Teton National Park she will lead a large and complex visitor and resource protection program, which includes law enforcement, emergency medical services, search and rescue, backcountry and climbing operations, structural and wildland fire, and an interagency dispatch center.   The park relies on close collaborative working relationships with Wyoming State Hig...

  Montana wolf proposals draw thousands of comments

  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  

  SNAPPED: National Parks from space

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 Searching for grizzlies? Bring your bear spray

Documenting Yellowstone conference coming to MSU

  Yellowstone visitors react to news that park has its own jail

  AARP's Guide to Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park

  News Release Yellowstone National Park engages with Tribes to improve partnerships North Entrance teepee installation event: Story of Crow-style teepee NPS / Jacob W. Frank News Release Date: August 4, 2021 Contact: Morgan Warthin , (307) 344-2015 MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - As the Yellowstone 150th anniversary approaches in 2022, the park is working to engage with Tribes around potential actions to expand tribal presence and representation of their important cultural heritage in the park during the anniversary and beyond. Native Americans have been living in and connected to the landscape now known as Yellowstone for at least 11,000 years. Today, there are 27 associated Tribes who have historic and modern connections to the lands and resources now found within the park. “Our goal is to substantially engage every Tribe connected to Yellowstone,” said Superintendent Cam Sholly. “It’s very important that the 150th anniversary is not just about Ye...

  CU study: Fires, drought in changing climate affecting high-altitude forests

  PHOTOS: Team rescue dog, ranger hit, injured by falling tree in Wyoming wilderness

  More than 1,000 earthquakes rock Yellowstone in July

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 g...

  Masks required at indoor locations in Yellowstone National Park

  This new National Park Service restriction could impact your summer vacation

 Why Study Geysers?

  Woman charged after she approached grizzly bear in Yellowstone with her phone

Meet Bo - the grizzly bear that got a "job"

 News Release Yellowstone announces lottery for 2021-2022 Non-Commercially Guided Snowmobile Access Program Snowmobile near Swan Lake NPS / Jacob W. Frank News Release Date: July 29, 2021 Contact: Morgan Warthin , 307-344-2015 MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – Beginning Sunday, August 1, people may apply to the 2021-2022 winter lottery for permits to snowmobile in Yellowstone without a commercial guide. Authorized in 2013, the Non-Commercially Guided Snowmobile Access Program allows one group of up to five snowmobiles to enter Yellowstone from each of its four winter entrances per day. This year’s lottery will be open on www.recreation.gov from August 1-31, 2021. Successful applicants will be notified in early September. Unclaimed or cancelled permits will be made available via www.recreation.gov on a first-come, first-serve basis beginning on October 1, 2021. There is no waiting list. Cancellations may occur throughout the winter season, so check t...

  Bison make the rules in Yellowstone    

  National Parks Are So Crowded That Congress Is Getting Involved   also   Senate subcommittee looks at impacts of record visitation on national parks (NBC Montana)  

  Yellowstone reveals number of bison, other animals hit by vehicles

  “Land of the burning ground”: Yellowstone’s Native American history and traditions Release Date: July 26, 2021 We sometimes think of Yellowstone as an untouched landscape, but humans have been present in the area for over ten thousand years!  The history and traditions of Native Americans in Yellowstone are as rich as the landscape itself. Yelowstone  Caldera  Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Cole Messa, Ph.D. student and Professor Ken Sims, both in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wyoming. To the Crow, it was the “land of the burning ground” or “land of vapors”; to the Blackfeet it was known as “many smoke”; to the Flatheads it was “smoke from the ground”; to the Kiowa it was called “the place of hot water.” Almost 150 years after its establishment by President Ulysses S. Gr...