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Hundreds of bison, sometimes known as buffalo, are slaughtered outside of Yellowstone National Park every year. It's a population control measure. But as Wyoming Public Radio’s Savanna Maher reports, some tribal nations are intervening.
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Since 2019, Yellowstone National Park has been sending bison to tribes across the nation. Known as the quarantine program, it took a lot of negotiations between stakeholders for it to go forward. Back in 2020, Kamila Kudelska explained why it's so hard to simply move the animal outside of Yellowstone.
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By the late 1880s, less than twenty-five bison remained in Yellowstone National Park. Currently, the bison population in the park is between about 4,800 to 5,000. The size of the bison herd in Yellowstone and how to maintain that number has been a source of conversation, conflict, and collaboration over the decades. This August, the National Park Service released a 137 page draft of their Environmental Impact Statement for how to manage the shaggy creature within the park boundaries.
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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 group of young Native leaders reconnected with their ancestral roots through a week-long adventure trip to the Teton and Yellowstone National Parks this August. The trip blended environmental education, intergenerational storytelling, ecological knowledge, cultural preservation, and outdoor exploration.
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Just like our phone cameras have improved, so have the imaging tools used in Yellowstone National Park, giving scientists the best look yet of what is going on underground in the park.
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Nine students from a public high school in New York City just wrapped up a three-week field trip to Wyoming’s national parks, learning everything from historic masonry to log preservation and wood window repair.
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Since the late nineties, Yellowstone National Park has sent thousands of bison to slaughter. They did it in keeping with a legal agreement with the state of Montana to control populations and keep the animals from leaving the park in search of food in the spring. Yellowstone officials and the Intertribal Buffalo Council, which represents 83 tribes, celebrated an expanded holding facility that will reduce the slaughter, and send more live animals to tribal lands across the country.
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Yellowstone National Park officials say a major storm blew down hundreds of trees near lake Yellowstone. Some of those trees damaged part of the park’s oldest hotel: Lake Hotel.Cleanup continues now, and will continue for days and weeks ahead.