Yellowstone hosted 813,970 visits in August 2018. This is approximately an 11 percent decrease from August 2017, which was the busiest August on record with 916,166 visits. So far in 2018, the park has hosted 3,136,250 visits, down 3 percent…
Yellowstone National Park and the National Park Service’s Greater Yellowstone Inventory and Monitoring Network have released The State of Yellowstone Vital Signs and Select Park Resources, 2017. Vital signs highlighted in the 60-page report include the status of animal species…
This year Wyoming and several other states and a Canadian province joined together to start a chronic wasting disease research project that could show if hunting helps control CWD. This prion disease affects deer, elk and moose. CWD is always…
The Jackson Ranger District of the Bridger-Teton National Forest is announcing a 21-day extension to the public scoping period, or the public comment period, on the proposal from Snow King Mountain Resort for improvements to the ski area. The Forest…
Implementation has begun in the Phillips area of the Teton to Snake Fuels Reduction Project near Wilson, Wyoming. Throughout the next two months, contactors will be cutting trees in the Phillips Ridge area and visitors will be traveling at their…
