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...alone with 50 bison at Castle Geyser. It could have been 1870 again. That is the privilege brought about by public access. Yellowstone is too priceless to give up now. Alfred Runte is a Seattle historian and advised and appeared on the Ken Burns PBS documentary,...
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...PARK — As of 9 a.m. Thursday, February 4, 1,771 earthquakes have been recorded here. The swarm began around 1 p.m. January 17, about 10 miles northwest of the Old Faithful area on the northwestern edge of the Yellowstone Caldera — and around 16 miles norteast...
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...go on December 15,” states Clyde Seely of Three Bear Lodge and SeeYellowstone.com Tours. Kay Mathews, Marketing Director of AllYellowstone.com, adds, “We are ready to go! Our fleets are ready to go and we will get our guest into Old Faithful no matter what!”Concessionaires...
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No one actually saw the wolf take food from people, but the young animal exhibited classic signs of habituation to humans. Residing near Old Faithful and Biscuit Basin, the wolf chased bicyclists and approached visitors in cars and on foot in what
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I’ve been visiting U.S. national parks for almost 50 years, first as a child in the back of my parents’ 1960s Buick station wagons, more recently with my children as I rediscover favorites from decades ago. With more families across the country
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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...see a bear keep your distance. The highest magnitude earthquake in this Yellowstone earthquake swarm was a magnitude 3.9 on Sunday, December 28, 2008. Yellowstone National Park sits on top of an ancient supervolcano that may be disconnected but not dead....
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I've been visiting the national parks for almost 50 years, first as a child in the back of my parents' 1960s Buick station wagons, more lately with my own children rediscovering favorites from decades ago. Here's my favorite (and least favorite) spots
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NHRA LUCAS OIL DRAG RACING SERIES - NORTHWEST DIVISION
YELLOWSTONE DRAG STRIP, ACTON, MONT.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Contact: Eric Lotz, NHRA (626) 688-8646
COWIE, O'BANNON LEAD FIELDS AT YELLOWSTONE DRAG STRIP
ACTON, Mont. (August
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NEW YORK — Over the past weekend, President Barack Obama took a break from the heat — literal and political — to take his family on a whirlwind tour of two national parks in the western United States.
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MR. GIBBS: Happy Friday. Let's do a quick week ahead.
The President has no scheduled public events on Saturday. On Sunday the President will travel to Guadalajara to attend the North American Leaders Summit. He will return to Washington on Monday
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The name given to the Gallatin River, does not evoke dread as do some American rivers such as the Cossatot, a white water river in eastern Arkansas whose Native American name translates to "skull crusher."
But the challenges and excitement the river
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WASHINGTON—Crumbling sidewalks near the Jefferson Memorial are sinking into the Tidal Basin. Reflecting pools are filled with green, smelly water. And millions of visitors have trampled the soil into virtual concrete where grass can't grow.
The
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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK -- Since true tragedies do occur here -- the 9-year-old boy who blundered into a thermal vent and was scalded to death, the park ranger whose arms were torn off by a bear -- I shouldn't complain about our particular
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With the unemployment rate in Pierce County at more than 10 percent and government agencies and private companies alike cutting back, many East Pierce residents are reconsidering the traditional summer vacation. I think families are looking for
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It would have made much more sense, in a way, to have someone photograph me in front of Old Faithful erupting. This makes me think that national parks are about humans reasserting their preeminence (their being the subject of history) in the face of
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The correspondent then played sound bites from Democratic Representative Sam Farr, a critic of the gun rights amendment, and Larry Pratt from the Gun Owners of America. Johns’s “hijacked” question followed the clip from Pratt, and he continued by
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...may be disconnected but not dead. Bless the gentlemen with the foresight and perseverance to protect the land we now know as Yellowstone National Park. It wasn't easy. In fact, it took photographs and paintings to convince Congress such a place even existed. Yellowstone...
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CODY-- Despite early 2009 visitation numbers that lag last year's by about 14 percent, administrators from Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks are optimistic that last-minute bookings will bring more summer visitors.
"Visitation in Yellowstone
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If you're within driving distance, on a budget, and enjoy the outdoors, a national park can be an ideal summer bargain destination. At Yellowstone, the entrance fee is just $25.
Recession, the swine flu, and airline capacity cuts: On the one hand, it
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YELLOWSTONE PARK — Spring in the Rockies is a time of renewal, with birds returning to their breeding grounds, large mammals migrating home to mate and raise their young, and locals touring uncrowded national parks.
If you’re one of those locals who
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Boulder, CO, USA - GSA Bulletin covers various aspects of volcanism, including North Sister volcano, central Oregon Cascades; Kilauea in Hawai'i; areas around the Yellowstone hotspot; the hot-spot-derived Easter Island; and fossil evidence of hot magma
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From the ancient hunting rituals of the Kalahari Bushmen to the migration trails of polar bears, these trips are sure to awe and inspire.
1. The first five adventures
There’s no better way to witness the mythic grandeur of the Wild West than on a
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Plenty
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On April 15th in Bozeman, Montana the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee (IGBC) will take public comments on its plans to reduce grizzly bear mortality in the Yellowstone region. Last fall, big-game hunters in the Yellowstone region were forced to kill
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I like the fox in Yellowstone (BBC2, Sunday), the one that jumps high into the air, flips over, and then plunges headfirst into the soft snow. Like Greg Louganis, but hairier. A perfect 10 for entry.
To be honest, it's not hard for a fox to make a
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...Even snowmobiles with the lowest emissions, however, remain wildly more polluting and noisier than automobiles. Most of Yellowstone's improvement has come from visitors choosing less-intrusive access. More visitors are opting to enter Yellowstone on snowcoaches...
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Yellowstone National Park continues to attract millions of avid hikers, campers and outdoor enthusiasts each year. If you're one of the many hiker paying respects Old Faithful this season, make sure you're well-prepared for the adventure.
Here are a
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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK -- If you've stayed at one of Yellowstone's hotels or lodges recently, you may have wondered what happened to the soap in your guest room. The standard bar shape has been replaced with an odd, oblong, donut-like
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...Yellowstone commonly experiences 1,000 to 3,000 earthquakes per year. There have been more than 32,000 earthquakes recorded in Yellowstone from 1973 to 2009. Scientists said today that while earthquake activity was elevated during the Yellowstone Lake swarm...
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...between Dec. 26 and Jan. 8. The current swarm is located on the northeast corner of the Yellowstone Caldera, according to the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. The new swarm so far is considerably smaller than the first series. The migration of the quakes...
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A federal government plan to carve out the Yellowstone area as an animal disease "hot-zone" faces opposition from some state veterinarians, who worry the move would lower cattle industry safeguards.
Creation of the zone would
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...Wyo. - Run for your lives ... Yellowstone's going to explode! Hundreds of small earthquakes at Yellowstone National Park in recent weeks have been an unsettling reminder for some people that underneath the park's famous geysers and majestic scenery lurks one...
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...activity. We've heard about all kinds of disasters, real and imagined. One of the recent scares is the possibility of the Yellowstone supervolcano exploding- but is it really likely? The Yellowstone Caldera is an active super volcano, one that could destroy...
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...not unprecedented during the last 40 years of monitoring. Swarms are the typical mode of occurrence of earthquakes within the Yellowstone caldera, with magnitudes ranging" to a magnitude of 4. The observatory noted that the 1985 swarm on the northwest rim...
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What does the earthquake swarm mean?
It is our opinion, and in agreement with Dr. Robert Smith of the University of Utah, that the current events are more of a major seismic event rather than a major volcanic event. The Alert Status of Yellowstone
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to watch it on Google Earth until the boulders start dropping on your roof and the power goes out and you lose your Internet connection and all your Facebook friends disappear and you must now bang on the pipes and hope the rescue parties hear you.
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...with one as high as 3.8. Also here is a pretty good summary of events from the Yellowstone Volcano Obervatory: December 2008 Yellowstone Earthquake And Ground Deformation Summary Earthquake Summary: Yellowstone seismicity increased significantly in December...
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How would you characterize the recent level of seismic level? Terms like "swarm" are pretty alarming. How would place this level of activity in historical context to what the USGS/YVO have tracked before?
Lowenstern: Swarm refers to seismicity when
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...information, maps, and monitoring information for Yellowstone can be found on the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory web site at: http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/. The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) is a partnership of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),...
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It is not unusual for there to be small earthquakes in the Yellowstone Park area, however the recent spate of Yellowstone earthquakes are different. The University of Utah publishes a map of recent Yellowstone earthquakes online. The map currently
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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. â We were expecting to see plenty of wildlife on a winter outing to Yellowstone National Park, but â silly us â we thought we might have to get through the entrance first.
But as we drove through the gateway community of
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...My Philadelphia childhood in the 1940s had many such evenings, not as exotic in content, perhaps, as Mr. Pooleâs trips to Yellowstone, but plenty of the Jersey Shore. In fact, my parents so enjoyed seeing their slides that they finally just left the screen...
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...groups who believe any cellular service in the nations oldest National Park needs to be sharply limited. "When people come to Yellowstone, it's one of the most special times in their lives," said Tim Stevens of the National Parks Conservation Association....
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...among the weaker contributions. Hurst, an elderly gentleman, is following his partner Emily’s casket from Calgary to her home near Yellowstone for her burial. Emily was not his lover, but a partner in old age. Plans go awry when an earthquake delays the...
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...the plan. "It's three to four different experiences. The developed areas have a different experience than anywhere else in Yellowstone." Park officials said they drew up the proposal after being approached in 2004 by cellular companies that wanted to build...
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The Seattle Times
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...revolution was named last month as China's first "national park." The move was inspired in large part by the USA, home to Yellowstone — the world's oldest national park. China's central government is now planning a parks system to curb destruction of the...
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...visitors year-to-date through October. That's 3.7 percent more than the 362,727 visitors at the same time in 2007, according to Yellowstone statistics. Yellowstone's busiest entrance year-to-date has been the west gate, with 1,265,370 recreational visitors. Next...
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...who want to increase the number of the machines allowed in the two parks. The plan released Monday also requires that Yellowstone snowmobile trips be commercially guided and would allow 78 multipassenger snowcoaches in the park daily – five fewer than under...
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...the fire fighting regulations Smokey will be stomping out any trace of fire, any small burning ember that might threaten Yellowstone park. So, then you can understand that according to Smokey the Liberal Bear, Great Depressions are caused by a lack of liberals. ...
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...of Yellowstone and Zarita, withdrawn by its trainer Pat Hyland on Mondaydue to a respiratory infection. The English horse Yellowstone was scratched later in the day by a veterinarian after failing to recover from a hip injury sustained last week. The race...
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