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NASCAR Driver’s Big Idea: Tap into Yellowstone Thermals to Power America

Castle Geyser in winter

Steve Green, a former NASCAR driver and a self-proclaimed innovator and problem-solver, has the solution to all of America's energy problems: Just tap into the geothermal power of Yellowstone National Park, and damn the consequences.

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Anschutz Kills Yellowstone Luxury Train Service

Gardiner Train Station

Gardiner Train Station

Luxury train service to Yellowstone National Park and other Western landmarks was spiked before it launched, as billionaire Philip Anschutz pulled the plug on the American Railway Explorer project, set to launch in 2011.

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Record Crowds Swarm Yellowstone National Park in July

Yellowstone National Park

The numbers are in: the number of people who visited Yellowstone National Park in the month of July came close to equaling the number of people who came during the first six months of the year combined.

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Mark Your Calendars: Free Yellowstone Admission Weekend Coming Up

Yellowstone National Park

Thinking about an upcoming visit to Yellowstone National Park? Consider going on the weekend of Aug. 14-15, when the National Park Service is waiving admission fees to America's Oldest National Park.

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Did Photographer Bait Grizzly into Soda Butte Rampage?

Euthanized Griz

Euthanized Griz

The folks at the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department say they're investigating allegations that a photographer was baiting wildlife at the Soda Butte Campground with food in recent weeks, leading them to wonder if that's why a grizzly mother went on a rampage there last week, killing one and mauling two others.

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Another Bad Day to Be a Bear in Yellowstone: Food-Loving Black Bear Put Down

Black Bear

More bear news from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, this time from the Park itself: an overly aggressive black bear was euthanized yesterday by the National Park Service, who ruled out live capture and relocation as options to deal with a bear that had not gone after humans -- only their food. 

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Soda Butte Griz: Light, But Not Malnourished

Euthanized Griz

Euthanized Soda Butte Griz

The autopsy is in on the mother grizzly who killed one and mauled two last week at Soda Butte Campgound in Cooke City just outside Yellowstone National Park, and the results are pretty dull: she was a little light but otherwise healthy, as experts continue to examine the results of a necropsy to determine whether something physical led the bear to go on the rampage.

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Final Cole Interview to Air Tonight on YPR

Jim Cole

Jim ColeThe last interview with the late Jim Cole, the author who championed Yellowstone National Park grizzlies despite a mauling that left him disfigured, will be aired tonight on Yellowstone Public Radio.

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Soda Butte Griz Cubs Were Malnourished: Zoo Officials

Euthanized Griz

Euthanized Griz.

The three cub bears associated with a deadly killing in Soda Butte Campground just outside the Northeast Entrance to Yellowstone National Park were undernourished and still in their winter coats, according to officials in ZooMontana, providing a crucial clue to why a mother grizzly may have gone on a rampage.

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Should Killer Griz Been Allowed to Live?

Euthanized Griz

For the authorities, putting down a killer grizzly responsible for a Soda Butte Campground rampage was a no-brainer: any time a bear kills euthanasia is virtually automatic. But a surprising number of Internet commentators wanted to see the bear live -- though, as one official pointed out, the farther away they are from Cooke City the more likely they are to argue for clemency.

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