Yellowstone News and Information

  New data reveals record number of grizzlies in GYE

  USGS Issues Update on Earthquake Swarm West of Yellowstone in Idaho             USGS Photo  

  The largest landslide in the world Release Date: November 22, 2021 Yellowstone is well-known as one of the largest volcanic systems in the world. Few people know, however, that the largest-known subaerial landslide on Earth is located just next door. Map of the Heart Mountain slide block. From Mitchell et al., 2015 (" Catastrophic emplacement of giant landslides aided by thermal decomposition: Heart Mountain, Wyoming ."  Earth and Planetary Science Letters  411: 199-207), modified from Anders et al. (2010). Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Annie Carlson, Research Coordinator at the Yellowstone Center for Resources, Yellowstone National Park. Among the geologic hazards in the Yellowstone region, you may be familiar with the possibility of earthquakes, hydrothermal explosions, and vo

  News Release Additional campgrounds move to Recreation.gov for the 2022 season Additional campgrounds move to Recreation.gov for the 2022 season NPS Photo/J. Tobiason Subscribe | What is RSS News Release Date: November 24, 2021 Contact: C.J. Adams, 307.739.3431 MOOSE, WY— Visitors to Grand Teton National Park and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway will now be able to reserve campsites at all park campgrounds in a “one-stop-shop” on Recreation.gov as all remaining campgrounds in the park transition to the website for the 2022 summer season. The Colter Bay RV Park and Tent Village, as well as Headwaters Campground and RV Park, which were previously reservable through Grand Teton Lodge Company, are moving to Recreation.gov . These locations, along with Colter Bay, Gros Ventre, Jenny Lake, Lizard Creek and Signal Mountain Campgrounds, will be available for booking on a six-month rolling basis. While a limited number of sites will be hel

  Man Sentenced To Jail For Walking on Yellowstone Thermal; Woman Avoids Jail Time

  First Native American Confirmed as Head of National Park Service

  West Yellowstone ski festival canceled due to lack of snow

  The ultimate winter vacation: Glacier, Yellowstone national parks offer scenic beauty, snowy fun

  News Release Grand Teton sees second busiest October for visitation NPS Photo/J. Bonney News Release Date: November 18, 2021 Contact: C.J. Adams, 307.739.3431 MOOSE, WY— Grand Teton National Park statistics on recreation visits show that October 2021 was the second busiest on record for the month of October. The park hosted an estimated 245,834 recreation visits in October 2021. This is a 32% increase from October 2019 and a 30% decrease from October 2020. From January to October 2021, there was a 7% increase in recreation visits compared to the entire year of 2018, which previously hosted the park’s highest amount of recreation visits on record. Camping, backcountry camping, and trail use, on trails that use is counted, in the park all increased in October 2021 compared to October 2019. October recreation visits over the last several years: October 2021—245,834         October 2020—351,173* COVID-19 pandemic October 2019—186,487 October 2

  Visiting Yellowstone in Winter

  Compost facility in West Yellowstone that serves Yellowstone National Park to shut down

Trumpeter swans fledge from Swan Lake, first time since 1966 also Baby Swans Fledge from Yellowstone's Swan Lake for the First Time in 55 Years - Newsweek  

  In Search Of Reasonable Housing For National Park Service Employees

  The Changing Moods of Colloidal Pool in Norris Geyser Basin By Lauren Harrison, PhD , USGS Release Date: November 15, 2021   Many of Yellowstone’s hot springs, geysers, mud pots, and fumaroles look different depending on the season, year, or sometimes even the day one visits. Colloidal Pool, in Norris Geyser Basin, is an interesting example of a feature that changed over the course of summer 2021. Yellowstone  Caldera   Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Lauren Harrison, postdoctoral researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey.   Comparison of (a) 1904 Historical map with (b)  1988 USGS map . Colloidal Pool is a large, labeled pool roughly located on a straight line between Hurricane vent and Whirligig Geyser on the 1988 map (b); this same transect on the 1904 map (a) shows no feature at that location (white circle). Note: maps are not at th

  Yellowstone Winterkeeper Bids Adieu To Final Weeks Of Autumn

  News Release Collaborative project over 10 years in the making will remove final impediment to native fish migration in Spread Creek Migratory native cutthroat trout rescued during an annual interagency fish salvage from the Spread Creek irrigation ditch system. News Release Date: November 12, 2021 Contact: C.J. Adams, 307.739.3431 Contact: Leslie Steen , 307-699-1022 JACKSON, Wyoming – Trout Unlimited (TU), Grand Teton National Park (GTNP), Bridger-Teton National Forest (BTNF), and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) announced today that construction to complete Phase 2 of the Spread Creek Fish Passage Project has started. Many years in the making, the project is a large-scale collaborative effort that will prevent future losses of migratory cutthroat trout and other native fish by installing a fish screen on the Spread Creek irrigation system. It will also make much-needed improvements to stabilize the diversion structure and channel

  News Release Yellowstone visitation statistics for October 2021 A group watches and photographs a Beehive Geyser eruption NPS / Jacob W. Frank News Release Date: November 10, 2021 Contact: Morgan Warthin , (307) 344-2015 MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – The park hosted 316,662 recreation visits in October 2021, down 12% from October 2020 (359,889 visits), which was the busiest October on record. Recreation visits this October were up 85% from October 2019 (171,339 visits). Several short-term, weather-related road closures likely impacted visitation in 2019. So far in 2021, the park has hosted 4,789,644 recreation visits, up 28% from the same period last year, and up 20% from 2019.   The list below shows the year-to-date trend for recreation visits over the last several years (through October): 2021 – 4,789,644 2020 – 3,753,531* 2019 – 3,979,154 2018 – 4,078,771 2017 – 4,084,762 2016 – 4,212,782 Affected areas: developed corridors Yellowstone&#

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  News Release Yellowstone National Park seeks public comments on revised Commercial Use Authorization plans Roosevelt Arch fall sunrise NPS / Jacob W. Frank News Release Date: November 9, 2021 Contact: Morgan Warthin , (307) 344-2015 MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – Yellowstone National Park asks for public comment on revised Commercial Use Authorization (CUA) and service-related operating plans that will guide commercial services in the park for the next five years.   The purpose of these revisions is to update the existing CUA and operating plans , last approved in 2013. These revisions would improve the CUA program's consistency with federal laws, policies and guidelines, and accommodate changing visitor needs and interests. The park would begin operating under this new plan beginning January 1, 2022.   The revised plans would affect both existing and potential CUA holders, and includes the following updates:   Activity-based CUAs: Bicycling Tours

  Yellowstone National Park Ends Summer 2021 Early on Nov. 6

  A Guide to Outsmarting the Crowds at Yellowstone National Park

  Fundraiser set for Laiha Slayton of Delaware, burned by Yellowstone hot spring

A treasure hunter got lost in Yellowstone. Now he’ll pay and is banned from the park

  Yellowstone Volcano's Norris Geyser Basin Has Risen

  News Release Elk reduction program begins Saturday, November 6 Date: November 2, 2021 Contact: C.J. Adams, 307.739.3431 MOOSE, WY— An elk reduction program begins Saturday, November 6, in Grand Teton National Park. The park’s enabling legislation of 1950 authorizes Grand Teton National Park to jointly administer an elk reduction program with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department when necessary for the proper management and conservation of the Jackson Elk Herd.   Respective federal and state resource managers have reviewed available data and concluded that the 2021 program is necessary. The need for the program is determined annually and is based on the status of the Jackson Elk Herd, including estimated herd size and composition and the number of elk on supplemental feed on the National Elk Refuge. A total of 400 permits are authorized for the 2021 program. The only area open to the elk reduction program is Wyoming Game and Fish Elk Hunt Area 75, l

  News Release Nearly all entrances and roads close in Yellowstone National Park Monday, November 8, 2021 A coyote sits in the middle of the park road NPS / Jacob W. Frank News Release Date: November 1, 2021 Contact: Morgan Warthin , (307) 344-2015 MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – This weekend, November 6-7, provides the last chance for visitors to drive to many iconic locations in Yellowstone. The West, South and East entrances and all roads, with one exception, will close to vehicle travel at 12:01 a.m. Monday, November 8. The park annually closes roads in early November to prepare them for the winter season and snowmobile and snowcoach travel, which will begin Wednesday, December 15. The one exception is the road from the park’s North Entrance at Gardiner, Montana, through Mammoth Hot Springs to the Northeast Entrance and communities of Cooke City and Silver Gate, Montana. This road is open all year, weather-permitting. Travel east of Cooke City is no

  Bison stampede in Yellowstone rocks bridge in ‘scary’ encounter

  Pronghorn StoryMap highlights unique animal and its ecosystem

  This Is the Best Way to Visit Yellowstone National Park

  News Release Body of missing 26-year-old Texas man located in Grand Teton Date: October 24, 2021 Contact: C.J. Adams, 307.739.3431 MOOSE, WY— Search teams located the body of missing 26-year-old Texas man Jared Hembree today in Grand Teton National Park. His body was found near Uhl Hill in the eastern part of the park. Rangers arrived to the scene and recovered Hembree’s remains. The National Park Service and Teton County Sherriff’s Office are conducting an investigation into what occurred. A search was initiated Thursday, October 21, after park law enforcement received a call expressing concern about Hembree’s welfare after an interaction with him outside of the park’s eastern boundary. Hembree’s vehicle was located unattended at Game Warden Point parking area in the eastern part of the park. The four-day intensive search involved over eighty members. Grand Teton park staff, members of Teton County Sherriff’s Office (TCSO), members of Teton Coun

  News Release Grand Teton surpassed park’s busiest full year in September Park actively working to better understand changing visitation NPS Photo/J. Bonney News Release Date: October 20, 2021 Contact: C.J. Adams, 307.739.3431 MOOSE, WY— Grand Teton National Park hosted 3,493,937 recreation visits between January and September 2021, already surpassing the park’s busiest full year on record with three months to go in 2021. Previously, 2018 had the record for most recreation visits in a year with 3,491,151 visits. Of the past nine months, six have been record setting for visitation. Some of the largest increases in recreation visits occurred during the shoulder season, including the months of March, April, and May. Summer visitation (June, July, August) also increased with July 2021 recording the busiest month for recreation visits in Grand Teton’s history. The park has also seen increases in trail use. During the 2021 summer, trail use increase

  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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1941 audio interview with William Henry Jackson, photographer of Yellowstone and the Old West, at age 98

  News Release Yellowstone National Park seeks comments on winter use adaptive management adjustments Sun shining through the trees on Grand Loop Road in winter. NPS / Jacob W. Frank News Release Date: October 18, 2021 Contact: Morgan Warthin , (307) 344-2015 MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – The National Park Service (NPS) encourages public comment on a proposal to suspend one component of the adaptive monitoring plan for winter use, which was initially put in place to evaluate effects to resources in relation to snowmobiles and Oversnow Vehicles (OSV) use. Starting in the winter of 2021 and 2022, a wildlife monitoring effort identified in the 2012-2013 Winter Use Plan and Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS)/Record of Decision (ROD) would be suspended given the results have not substantially changed over the decade evaluated. This action would not affect snowmobile or OSV use in the park or impact visitors. This action is also consistent wi