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The Obama Administration has eased brucellosis management and detection rules in the states bordering Yellowstone National Park, but will the changes lead to reforms in bison management?

A coalition of environmental groups has filed suit in U.S. District Court, asking that a planned slaughter of brucellosis-infected Yellowstone National Park bison be stopped, with the Interior Department arguing that the management proceed.

A heavy snowpack is causing Yellowstone National Park bison to move outside the northern boundary of the Park: today around 300 were hazed back to the Park's Stephens Creek facility, where those testing positive for brucellosis are expected to be slaughtered.

The Stephens Creek capture facility is now empty, after a group of 62 bison temporarily held there was released Thursday afternoon and moved south further into Yellowstone National Park.

Google "Michio Kaku" and you'll see a lot of returns from the self-promoting doctor on a wide variety of topics: winter weather in New York City, interstellar travel, cryogenics and living forever, and the probability that we are being visited regularly by aliens. Today the junk-science peddler decided to weigh in on Yellowstone National Park. Run! Run!

PREPPING FOR SUMMER 2011: Do you plan on any commercial filming in Yellowstone National Park this summer, or anticipate any in-depth video coverage? If so, you'll need to apply for a permit. Here's the official policy for 2011, straight from Park officials.

The world was watching last summer when two escaped convicts and an accomplice headed from an Arizona prison to Yellowstone National Park, and now we know why: one of the convicts planned on suicide by grizzly in the wilderness.

One of the 25 Yellowstone National Park bison allowed out of the Park and into Gallatin National Forest has been killed by Montana Department of Livestock officials after refusing to leave private property after two days of hazing.

A new stage in Yellowstone National Park bison management begins today, as the Interagency Bison Management Plan (IBMP) partner agencies are releasing up to 25 seronegative, monitored and tagged bison to be released onto the land between the northern boundary of Yellowstone National Park and Yankee Jim Canyon, at the northern end of the Gardiner Basin.

A female gray wolf from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem's Mill Creek Pack was poisoned in 2009 with a banned substance, Compound 1080, when she wandered into Colorado back in 2009, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating.