Issues

Yellowstone National Park plans to increase security around Stephens Creek following a pair of bison breakouts this winter.

For the second time this year, fences at Yellowstone’s Stephens Creek facility were compromised, releasing bison being kept there.

Bison operations began in Yellowstone National Park Friday afternoon, February 16, 2018, with bison being corralled into Stephens Creek.

The Crow Tribe want to become the seventh tribe permitted to hunt Yellowstone bison and elk outside the park during winter.

Hunters have killed far fewer Yellowstone bison north and west of the park than they did at this time last year.

The Wyoming Legislature has proposed instituting a conservation fee on Yellowstone visitors to help pay for wildlife management in the Greater Yellowstone Area.

There will be no hunting of Yellowstone grizzly bears in the state of Montana this year.

This winter, the Blackfeet Nation will become the sixth tribe to join the annual bison hunts outside Yellowstone National Park.

The Yellowstone National Park elk herd in the Northern Range has grown since last year, according to park and Montana biologists.

A federal judge has ruled the federal government must review whether Yellowstone bison warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act.