Yellowstone National Park

Richard Midgette was fired on Valentine’s Day in the first wave of federal layoffs of probationary national parks employees. Just over a month later, he was rehired and then let go again. The first firing especially took a serious toll on his mental health.

These include the Madison and Firehole Rivers and their tributaries, and the Gibbon River and tributaries downstream of Norris campground.

A family duo takes us on a ride to find a scar-faced grizzly, as the iconic bruins’ future remains uncertain.

At nearly 1.7 million visitors from the start of the year through June, visitation is 4% higher than it was through this time last year and 6% higher than the same timeframe in 2021.

The Madison and Firehole Rivers, and their tributaries, will be closed from 2 p.m. to dawn the next day, as well as the Gibbon River and all its tributaries downstream of Norris Campground.

The park is on track to have its busiest year ever.

The man sustained minor injuries after a group of people in the Upper Geyser Basin area at Old Faithful got too close to the bison.

Court documents say the driver accelerated into a park employee, pushing the employee backwards. The employee jumped out of the Jeep’s path after he was hit and was uninjured.

In preparation to open the pass, crews are busy clearing snow and making repairs to the nearly 11,000 foot high pass between Cooke City and Red Lodge, Montana.

The 11-year-old male was the fourth grizzly to die in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in the last two weeks.