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Seventy-three scientists have penned a letter to Wyoming Governor Matt Mead calling on him to halt a proposed hunt on Yellowstone area grizzly bears.

Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk is questioning Wyoming’s joint resolution seeking a “conservation fee” on visitors to the park.

The Wyoming House of Representatives has voted down a bill letting the state make Yellowstone National Park-themed license plates.

Wyoming has moved ahead with creating a special Yellowstone National Park license plate.

The state of Wyoming announced today it is selling a 640-acre parcel of Wyoming School Trust Land to the National Park Service.

Taylor Haynes, a Wyoming gubernatorial candidate wants to open Yellowstone National Park to drilling, grazing and mining.

Several states, including Utah, are paying the federal government to reopen National Parks closed by the federal shutdown, but there appears to be little appetite for opening Yellowstone National Park for the rest of the season.

Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead joined the chorus of state elected officials opposing a lowering in the number of snowmobiles allowed in Yellowstone National Park in the winter season -- but we're not sure the limits matter so much anymore.

In a tentative compromise announced last night, Wyoming wolves will be delisted from Endangered Species protections and the government will manage wolves in the state -- but not in Yellowstone National Park.