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Attendance during Yellowstone National Park's winter season in 2010 held steady when compared to past years, as the poor economy and a lack of snow didn't deter visitors from skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling.

The much-vaunted Druid pack of Yellowstone National Park wolves is now down to a single female, say researchers -- but there are signs the Yellowstone wolf packs are on the verge of realigning, as there's some potential interpack mating on the horizon.

It turns out there were far fewer differences between the goals of the National Park Service officials and organizers of Camp Loll, a Boy Scout camp off the southern boundary of Yellowstone National Park, as the two sides have worked out a compromise plan for Park visitation in 2010 and beyond.

With snowcoach travel ending in Yellowstone National Park the beginning of this week, National Park Service workers are making the transition to spring, with park road crews began making their first pass with plows to clear a lane south from Mammoth. 

A group is petitioning the National Park Service to plow the highway between West Yellowstone and Old Faithful year-round, much the same as the road between Gardiner and Cooke City is plowed all winter long.

Though the temperatures have been a little colder than normal for this time of year, apparently the Yellowstone bears are listening to their internal clocks, with the first sightings starting in late February.

The National Park Service has issued the gun rules for Yellowstone National Park in the face of new federal laws scheduled to go into effect Monday, and one thing is clear: you may be able to pack, but you're prohibited from firing based on other anti-poaching laws already on the books. So much for the weekend warriors who think they'll drop a charging bull moose with their little sidearm.

Here's your outrageous statement of the day: According to the National Rifle Association, guns are necessary in Yellowstone National Park because it is a haven for drug trafficking and drug production. Really.

The wolf population in Yellowstone National Park dipped to under 100 wolves for the first time since 1999, a population decline the National Park Service says is "expected and considered natural."

New gun rules are slated to go into effect in America's National Parks beginning Feb. 22, and a group of retired U.S. Park Service employees is warning that the unintended effects of the law may be more than gun advocates anticipate.