Video surveillance from Yellowstone National Park helped in the capture of the man responsible for last week’s kidnapping and assault of an 11-year-old Cody girl. The Montana man’s car was spotted as he drove through Yellowstone, and now 39-year-old Jessie Paul Speers is being being held without bond in Bozeman and has waived extradition. … Continue Reading
The dust and delays on Togwotee Pass are over and Dubois travel officials and representatives of the Wyoming Department of Transportation are planning a ribbon-cutting celebration for the reconstructed highway over Togwotee Pass, completed earlier this month. Festivities are scheduled … Continue Reading
Teton County has another new Ursine resident after it was banished from Park County, Wyoming for inappropriate behavior. According to Wyoming Game and Fish Spokesman Mark Gocke, the sub-adult male grizzly bear had been … Continue Reading
The man believed responsible for the abduction and assault of a young Cody girl last week has been found and arrested. The FBI reported yesterday that a man they declined to identify had been located in Belgrade, Montana and taken into custody. Police say … Continue Reading
A prescribed fire by crews on the Caribou-Targhee National Forest in the Hill Creek area north of Darby Canyon has been delayed. The Hill Creek Prescribed Fire Project is intended to burn approximately 30 to 50 percent of the 6,700 acres within the target area located about … Continue Reading
Fire officials from Yellowstone Ranger District, Gallatin National Forests have lifted the Pine Creek Fire area closure including: George Lake, Pine Creek, North and South Deep Creek and Davis Creek trails. The Pine Creek Campground is currently closed for the season, but … Continue Reading
The hunt of wolves in the Jackson Hole area is approaching its quota in three of the four hunting areas. Collectively, those three areas permit the taking of six wolves as trophy game while the fourth area just north of Wilson and Jackson permits another seven. According to this week’s report … Continue Reading
No doubt, you have seen the attention a display placed in the Jackson Hole Airport by Grand Teton National Park has attracted from those arriving in the valley and waiting to claim their luggage along with a small store in the airport run by the Grand Teton Association. Those features … Continue Reading
It’s a sure sign of the changing seasons. Yellowstone National Park has announced the closure of some of the higher elevation roads. Parks Spokesman Al Nash says last week, the high section of Beartooth Highway closed just northeast of the park. Nash says travelers can still go … Continue Reading
Yellowstone National Park is soliciting comments for a proposed project to complete routine trail work on portions of the Heart Lake and Basin Creek Cutoff trails. The project will focus on the area where the two trails connect to the portion of the Heart Lake Trail that skirts Sheridan Lake. The main intent of the project will be … Continue Reading
