[Thursday February 22, 2008] In a news announcement today (Thursday 2/21/08) the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has decided to remove the gray wolf in the Northern Rockies from the list of endangered species. The formal statement in the Federal Register will be issued within in a couple of weeks and will take effect 30 days after that. It was …

A few years ago you couldn't get near a Yellowstone National Park campground unless you had made a reservation or were willing to cruise the sites, waiting for someone to leave. Today there's less demand, as the younger generation is less enamored of pitching a tent and curling up in a sleeping bag. Too bad: camping in Yellowstone National Park is an experience everyone should have in their lives.

Cody, Wyoming is an interesting western community, part tourist town, part real ranching town, and for many a visit to Yellowstone isn't complete without a stop at Cody's star attraction, the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.

Every year millions of people travel over mountain roads in the Greater Yellowstone Region and come home safe and sound. There’s nothing special about mountain highways that you won’t encounter elsewhere, except perhaps 1,000 foot drop-offs, hairpin curves, and 6-9 percent grades that go on for twenty miles. What are a few white knuckles for all those views and vistas? …

Staying inside Yellowstone is the most convenient way to enjoy the pleasures of the park for short and longer stays. For the most part, however, you'll need to plan well in advance if you want to stay in the most popular destinations -- or anywhere in the park during the peak season.

To see Yellowstone Park in one, two, or even three days requires a lot of driving, some patience, and a risk of sensory or memory overload (and this goes for cameras too). Still, many people visit Yellowstone on a tight schedule and understandably want to optimize the time spent in the park. Here are two suggestions for a one-day stint, each based on the …

It’s customary to think of a visit to Yellowstone in terms of seeing the main attractions –- Old Faithful, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and Lower Falls, Yellowstone Lake, Mammoth Hot Springs. On a first trip with limited time, perhaps such a quick visit is all that’s possible. However, in the tradition of a true insider we’d like to …

Most of the people who visit Yellowstone National Park don't have the luxury of just up and going there. Because of its location in the middle of the Rocky Mountains, for most people Yellowstone's a trip, a journey, something that takes time (days), money (perhaps no small amount), and yes, lots of some planning.

Snowmobile travel in Yellowstone National Park will be restricted to 540 trips per day starting in the winter of 2008-09, in a decision handed down by the National Park Service last week. Opponents of snowmobiles wanted a total ban on the vehicles, while proponents wanted to see the current daily limit of 720 trips maintained. That daily limit is somewhat …

There are many things to do in Yellowstone, most of them related to the great outdoors. Many of the activities you can do in a lot of places -- hiking, biking, fishing, boating, horseback riding, sightseeing, picnicking -- but you are doing them in Yellowstone’s incomparable landscape and in one of America’s largest areas of wilderness. That changes things. For example, people catch trout in all kinds of streams. Not many people catch trout within sight of a spouting geyser.