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A new study shows some Yellowstone grizzlies may be adapting in the face of declining whitebark pine—but that more study is needed.

SILVER GATE, MT — When you decide to open a shop in a tourist town, is there a better name than “Stop the Car”?

With declining snowpack predicted throughout the Rocky Mountain West due to climate warming, a recent study suggests snow levels in some parts of Yellowstone won’t be deep or consistent enough to support a full season of over-snow travel as early as mid-century, according to two Yellowstone-area scientists.

There weren’t many people in Yellowstone Sunday afternoon, but they were all doing the same thing—enjoying the last day before the interior park roads close for the winter.

Ah, peace at last.

It’s nice to get out on a fall weekend and visit my local park—Yellowstone.

“The least studied mammal in Yellowstone is humans,” says Yellowstone National Park’s Social Science Coordinator Ryan Atwell.

It’s a very famous scene now: a red fox diving into the snow in Yellowstone National Park.

Scarface, a well-known, well-photographed Yellowstone National Park grizzly bear, has been identified as the bear killed north of Gardiner, Montana last November.

Although winter tends to linger around Yellowstone, one sure sign the seasons are changing is when crews start plowing the Beartooth Highway.