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Traveler's Digest annual ranking of the Ten Best Places to view wildlife ranked Yellowstone as number one in America.

Five types of snakes can be found in Yellowstone - the rattlesnake being the only venomous one.

Sept 27, 2014: The Goal Tribal Coalition, including 26 Native American nations, will hold a prayer protest against the delisting of grizzly bears off the endangered list.

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How many wolves were in Yellowstone in 2013, what were their wolf pack territories, and what were their kills.

Sept 22 & 24, 2014: Drone operators who crashed camera drones into Yellowstone Lake and the Grand Prismatic Hot Spring were fined and one was banned from the park.

September 25, 2014: In an ongoing effort to rid Yellowstone streams of non-native fish, Yellowstone has purposefully begun poisoning its waterways.

This 21-mile stretch of the Grand Loop Road from the West Thumb to Lake Village travels along the side of Yellowstone Lake with hotels, visitor centers, and a geyser basin boardwalk.

Saturday, August 2, a tourist accidentally crashed a camera drone into the huge Grand Prismatic Hot Springs pool. Days later, park staff are still trying to figure out how to retrieve it

Firehole Lake Drive, a side road to the Grand Loop Road, was closed for a few days due to the asphalt "melting." A 16-mile portion of the Grand Loop is also being repaired and plans are to move the road.

A rally to protest sport hunting and trapping of wolves in the United States

Visit an active Catholic church and gift shop on the reservation.

Jackson, Wyoming town officials first noticed significant hill movement April 4, 2014. They evacuated 42 homes and apartment units April 9.

Disney and the National Park Foundation invite you to see the new film "Bears" during opening week, April 18-24, 2014. This just happens to be National Park Week, and when you go see the film during this week, Disney will make a donation on your behalf to the National Park Foundation to protect wildlife and wild places.

As the only undammed river in the lower 48 states, the Yellowstone River flows 692 miles through Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota.

The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on an act dubbed the "No More Parks Act" today, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. This combats the Antiquities Act of 1906 that protected the Grand Canyon from local mining interests.

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Learn about gold mining at the “Home of Mount Rushmore” and truly a “City of Gold.” The quaint town of Keystone is steeped in gold mining history.

Yellowstone National Park was the most recognized winner, getting both the most votes and the most number one votes.

Yellowstone is releasing a about 60 tons of helium from underground stores each year, an amount hundreds, possibly thousands, of times more than expected.

Before the park's wolf reintroduction, loss of aspen trees in Yellowstone National Park was traced to elk grazing . Now wolves help control the elk population.

Happily, many species of birds in Yellowstone today are success stories, having come back from zero or very low population levels just a few decades ago. Good examples are the osprey, bald eagle, and most recently, the peregrine falcon.

The world’s largest mammoth research facility. Mammoths and other megafauna got trapped in a sinkhole and drown about 26,000 years ago.

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Park administrators recently put the kibosh on plans to shoot bison with “biobullets,” bullets laced with a vaccine to inhibit the spread of disease, saying the scheme was too ineffective to justify the expensive.

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Start in Pleasant Valley then ascend to 6,350 feet.

With two significant Congressional decisions looming in the early new year, it’s possible that the park could quickly find itself in the same position as it was this past fall.

Mining engineer David E. Folsom, and friends Charles Cook and William Peterson, first accurately documented the Yellowstone landscape in 1869.

New research indicates that the grizzly bear has a more diverse diet than previously thought - including pine nuts, elk, bison, berries, trout, and insects - and that food sources available in Yellowstone National Park are sustainable for the bear population.

With geysers hissing and the earth gurgling, it’s no wonder that Yellowstone National Park is home to its share of ghost stories.

Fall can be the best time of year to catch the largest and most beautiful browns of the season.

In March of 2013, officials estimated that just 71 adult wolves reside within Yellowstone’s boundaries, a 14-year low and less than half of 2007’s total.

The trip E.H. Harriman, president of the Union Pacific Railroad, and Frank J. Haynes, president of Monida & Yellowstone Stage Line, made to Yellowstone National Park in 1905, led to the existence of the town of West Yellowstone.

U.S. Army cavalry men protected the park from poachers and those looking to exploit its natural resources before the National Park Service 32 years later.

There are moments where Yellowstone can feel positively crowded.

Old Faithful’s predictability is the exception; most geysers give little warning when they’re about to blow. The result, of course, is a surprise steam-and-water show. And in the case of Steamboat Geyser, there’s no other show like it Earth.

Yellowstone is home to a few natural spas the mix with creeks, making them worthy of a post-hike dip. Your best option? Ferris Fork and Dunanda Falls.

The Yellowstone area has seen tremendous volcanic activity in its past. 3 giant eruptions have occurred between 2.1 million and 640,000 years ago.

For three months in the summer of 2007, I was living the dream, and I learned a few tricks of the trade on how you can maximize your time there.

The Yellowstone caldera was formed after an explosion of magma nearly 600,000 years ago.

Yellowstone was the permanent home of one Native American tribe, but racism bred untrue rumors and tales.

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Sept 24, 2013: A series of small earthquakes have been shaking the scenery at Yellowstone. 4 tremors were strong enough for park visitors to feel.

Sept 2013: Researchers believe there are fewer grizzlies in Yellowstone than previously estimated. Are there enough for the bears to be taken off the endangered species list?

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Two hikers who encountered a bear in the Yellowstone backcountry Thursday were treated and released for injuries. The small group of hikers–four in all–were hiking the Cygnet Lakes Trail southwest of Canyon Village where they were charged by a sow.

It’s important to remember that while Yellowstone National Park is beautiful, it’s also dangerous. Summer flash floods and high water can prove perilous.

How will an increase in grizzly population will affect campgrounds in the park?

One scientist tests the theory of mantle plumes by using 200 gallons of corn syrup to represent the Earth's mantle.

What’s the best way to test a bear canister? Recruit a bear to try to open it.

So far in 2013 hunters have killed more wild bison migrating from Yellowstone National Park than any year since 1989. Participation by American Indians, who harvest the animals under long-standing treaty rights, helped to drive the numbers skyward.

Yellowstone National Park has proposed new guidelines for winter use of snowmobiles and snowcoaches within park borders.

According to statistics from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), 2012 saw the highest number of grizzly bear deaths in the greater Yellowstone area in the past four years. Researchers recorded a total of 51 bear deaths this year, compared to 44 deaths in 2011, 50 deaths in 2010 and 31 in 2009.

Montana wildlife officials have shut down wolf hunting and trapping in areas bordering Yellowstone.

Over the past few weeks, hunters have killed seven wolves originally from Yellowstone National Park. Each of the wolves wore a GPS research collar, which helps park officials to monitor the wolf packs’ movements.

Due to recent increases in their population, wolves are no longer protected under national government regulations mandated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Outside of Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park, wolves throughout Wyoming can be shot on sight.

Summer 2012 has seen an unusually high 16 grizzly bear deaths in Yellowstone National Park.

Using thermal satellite images, scientists take the earth’s temperature hundreds of miles away from a destination to hopefully predict volcano eruptions.

According to the National Park, Yellowstone grizzly bears have begun emerging from their dens in the park.

Predator attacks, a hard winter, and hunting has resulted in a 10% decrease in the Northern Yellowstone elk herd in 2012

Amazing photographs of a total lunar eclipse as seen over Yellowstone National Park in December 2012.

A newly released 'Vital Signs' report from the National Park Service outlines the ecological health of the park in 2010.

A man hunting elk in Grand Teton National Park was attacked by a grizzly bear Sunday Oct. 30th. The hunter, Timothy Hix, of Jackson, escaped the attack suffering minor injuries.

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A photo post about June in Yellowstone National Park. The post contains images of bears, wolves, osprey, bison and landscapes.

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Fishing Wind River Canyon Near Thermopolis, Wyoming. Pete is an obsessed fly fisherman, but who wouldn't be a total trout nut if they lived up here?

How big is Yellowstone Lake? How deep is it? Is it natural? and answers to other questions about the largest lake in our America's first national park.

In Yellowstone, anglers might be asked to look and not touch until trout numbers bounce back or when the drought ends.

Great museums to visit on your Yellowstone vacation from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center to the Teton Flood Museum and everything in between. Wyoming museums in Casper, Meeteetse, Cheyenne, Gillette, Evanston, Dubois, and Jackson Hole.

Start near Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone and end in Gardiner, Mont. Excerpted from Tom Carter's Day Hiking Yellowstone Park

Wolves mean fewer elk and fewer elk hunters. That costs $$. But wolves also bring in the lookers who want to learn about these predators and that brings $$.

Ecotourism in Yellowstone has increased since gray wolves were reintroduced to the ecosystem, boosting local economies by an estimated $5 million per year.

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Yellowstone National Park fisheries biologists resort to "netting" and help from anglers to save thinning population of native cutthroat trout in Yellowstone Lake.