Tag Archives: Yellowstone

A year since a swarm of earthquakes hit an area right outside Yellowstone National Park, sensors have detected a series of small (under 1.7 on the Richter scale) micro earthquakes in roughly the same area over the last week. Is this just a burp, foretelling of another swarm, or more?

On a budget and wanting to see America's Oldest National Park? Check out the calendar of free days and weekends announced today by the National Park Service.

A long-awaited shift in Yellowstone National Park bison management is now in place. Bison roaming past Gardiner will be hazed and tested for exposure to brucellosis; those testing negative will be moved to the Gallatin National Forest, while the rest will be moved back to the Park. Critics say the new plan treats bison like cattle.

Exiled Yellowstone National Park bison stuck in quarantine for the past several years would get a little breathing room, as Montana officials propose temporarily moving YNP bison enclosed at Corwin Springs to three wildlife areas controlled by the state. But there's one big condition: they'd be hunted sometime down the line.

The nonprofit Yellowstone Association Institute (YAI) will offer the new Lamar Valley Wolf Week program December 2010 and March 2011 at its Buffalo Ranch field campus. The program will feature YAI’s signature combination of classroom learning and in-field observation led by Institute naturalists and guest speakers.

A new sensor network installed in Yellowstone National Park this summer will provide scientists and the public near “real-time” data on what’s happening in one of the nation’s most active geyser basins.

It is a fire that apparently looks more impressive than it is, as the Antelope Fire is actually smaller than officials estimated late last night -- 3,998 acres, compared to the 4,370-acre figure supplied yesterday -- though an impressive plume seen over much of the northeastern part of Yellowstone National Park would seem to counter that assessment.

Fires go where there's fuel, and the Antelope Fire is no exception: After jumping the Yellowstone River, the fire found acreage untouched by recent forest fires and quickly expanded to 4,370 acres, though a new estimate expected this morning will probably boost that total significantly.

The Antelope Fire, once given up for dead by firefighters, has unexpectedly jumped the Yellowstone River and has made its way through mature forest, forcing the closure of several campgrounds and trails and causing Park officials to bring back the firefighters.

The Yellowstone National Park Antelope Fire is now 50 percent contained and will be allowed to burn itself out naturally, as firefighters recede to a monitoring role and the Grand Loop Road reopens between Tower Fall and Chittenden Road.