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We have a better working knowledge of the Yellowstone National Park geothermal system, with a newly discovered, deeper magma reservoir feeding the shallower, long-known magma chamber close to the Earth’s surface.

We spend a lot of time discussing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem here, but today’s news covers the financial ecosystem, as a new federal government study pegs the Yellowstone economic impact at $543.7 million annually.

It’s the day many of the faithful have been waiting for: the Yellowstone 2015 summer season opens today, as the West and plowing at Mammoth Hot Springs open to car traffic at 8 a.m., with access to Old Faithful and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.

Flying to Yellowstone National Park will be a little easier this summer, as SkyWest Airlines has scheduled daily Delta Connection Salt Lake City to West Yellowstone jet service beginning on June 1.

With the weather warming and the wonders of Yellowstone National Park beckoning, here’s a video that should get you thinking long and hard about your next visit.

A scientific crew utilizing Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) will begin Old Faithful Geyser mapping tomorrow in Yellowstone National Park, scanning shallow subsurface structures like the thickness of the hot spring deposits, fractures, vents and cavities.

Talk about having the Park to yourself: Yellowstone spring biking is now possible, as the 49-mile stretch between the West Entrance at West Yellowstone, Mont., to Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyo., is open, beginning today.

With a name like Boiling River, you’d expect the water to be hot. But in the past few months, it’s gotten hotter.

A simple mechanism — side chambers, or loops in the underground plumbing — is what causes Yellowstone geysers to regularly erupt, according to work from a University of California, Berkeley researcher.

We’re nearing the end of the 2014-2015 Yellowstone winter season, with hotels, roads and services to begin shutting down this Sunday.