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With low inventory and high prices in gateway communities, housing for Yellowstone National Park employees has been an issue for awhile. Wyoming Public Radio’s Olivia Weitz spoke to Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly about how the park will use a recently announced $40 million gift to continue investing in employee housing.
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On Thursday, a judge ordered Pierce Brosnan to pay about $1500 in fines after the actor pleaded guilty to going off trail in a thermal area in Yellowstone National Park.
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Amache, a former Japanese incarceration camp in Colorado, is now officially part of the National Park system. Many survivors and descendants are excited about the news.
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The National Park Service and the nonprofit American Forests have signed a five year agreement to help expand the whitebark pine's shrinking range in the Western U.S.
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Wyoming has ten places managed by the National Park Service (NPS). Almost everyone knows of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park. But there’s also Devils Tower and Fossil Butte. A recent NPS report shows those sites help contribute quite a bit to the state's economy. It looked at visitation in communities within a 60 mile radius of those parks.
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A new report shows that visitors to national parks spent a record amount in surrounding communities last year, providing a major economic boost to those areas.
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The federal government made billions available in 2021 to tackle a backlog across the system. Sams was in the region to showcase improvements at the Granite Canyon Trailhead, which has been under construction.
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The Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan nonprofit, recently released its annual rankings of the best places to work in the federal government. It found that working at a national park is no picnic.
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National Park Service rangers are being stretched dangerously thin, according to a new report.The advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Policy found that the number of permanent law enforcement officers has dropped 15% since 2005. Seasonal officers are down 30% in the same time period.
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Last week, Yellowstone National Park officials were saying the northern loop of the park may not open this summer. But Yellowstone National Park spokeswoman Cynthia Hernandez said $50 million in special funding from the National Park Service will help quicken the park's opening timeline.