Yellowstone National Park

MATTHEW BROWN BILLINGS, Mont. a ' An effort to divert some Yellowstone National Park bison from government-sponsored slaughter is in limbo after the program's permit expired and criticism emerged over moving some of the animals onto Ted Turner's private ranch.  

It took some shots from a 105mm howitzer to clear some potential avalanches, but Yellowstone National Park crews were able Tuesday to open the park's East Entrance for over-snow travel as scheduled. read more  

For the second year in a row, the wolf population in Yellowstone National Park declined again, with the most significant declines seen in packs along the park's northern region.Billings Gazette View Comments |  

A vast "plume" of hot rock, which scientists say is responsible for Yellowstone's famous geysers and other geothermal features, is coming into sharper focus in research coordinated by University of Utah scientists that sheds new light on our planet's inner workings. Geophysicist Robert Smith and colleagues monitored seismic waves from 800 earthquakes to assemble the most complete image ever published of the 500-mile "plumbing" system under...  

Some of the worst forest fires to occur in the United States were the 1871 Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin which burned 1.25 million acres and killed 1,500 people, the 1881 forest fires in Michigan which burned over a million acres and killed 138 people, the 1894 Hinckley, Minnesota Fire that burned 160,000 acres but destroyed 12 towns and killed 413 ...  

Read the full story in Science News. Just in time for Christmas, scientists report that some types of mistletoe may exacerbate climate change. In recent field studies in Yellowstone National Park, biologist Ken Cullings and colleague Julie Hanely, both of NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., measured the amounts of carbon dioxide emitted from the [...]  

© Tambako the Jaguar via Flickr Yellowstone National Park's wolf population has declined two years in a row, according to biologists. It's the first time the numbers have fallen two straight years and biologists believe the decrease is not linked to disease. Wolf Biologist Doug Smith predicts Yellowstone's wolf numbers will continue to decrease in the future. Though it's been 15 years since wolves were reintroduced to the park, Smith says...  

Yellowstone's underground 'plumbing' comes into viewSalt Lake Tribune... seismic waves from 800 earthquakes to assemble the most complete image ever published of the 500-mile "plumbing" system under Yellowstone National Park, ...Yellowstone magma plume studiedUPI.comUnder Yellowstone, Magma Pocket 20% Larger Than ThoughtNational Geographicall 9 news articles »  

Washington, December 14 (ANI): A new study has shown that the banana-shaped magma chamber of hot and molten rock a few miles beneath the supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park in the US is 20 percent larger than previously believed, which indicates that a future cataclysmic eruption could be even larger than thought. The studies were led [...]  

Here are some of the more interesting deals and websites that came across our desk recently. •If you don't mind sharing a bathroom, you can spend a night at Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel in Yellowstone National Park from Jan. 3 through March 8 for $49 ...  

Jackson, Wyo. » Scientists say information from a vast seismograph network confirms a magna plume extends at least 500 miles below Yellowstone National Park. The scientists from Utah, Massachusetts, Michigan, Norway, Taiwan and Switzerland say they ...  

Yellowstone National Park is an enormous wildlife preserve located predominantly in Wyoming and is famous for such spectacles as Old Faithful. But it’s also known for sitting atop a supervolcano which is defined as capable of producing an M8 degree eruption spewing one trillion metric tons of ash and other debris filling at least 100 cubic miles. Researches have brightened the day by discovering Yellowstone isn’t just a big supervolcano, it...  

drewtheman writes "New studies of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park shows the plume and the magma chamber under the volcano are larger than first thought and contradicts claims that only shallow hot rock exists. University of Utah research professor of geophysics Robert Smith led four separate studies that verify a plume of hot and molten rock at least 410 miles deep that rises at an...  

Climate-driven change in mountain ecosystems is readily visible across the National Park System. In Glacier National Park rivers of ice are shrinking, in Rocky Mountain National Park bark beetles are ravaging forests, and in Yellowstone National Park atypically warm stream waters in summer are stressing fish. To better gauge the climate's impact on pikas in their park, Grand Teton National Park biologists are...  

They might not be the economic draw that wolves are to Yellowstone National Park, but fishers seem to be taking to Olympic National Park just about as favorably as the larger predators did to Yellowstone in their recovery program. This week a third batch of the cat-sized predators will be set free in Olympic to build on two successful years of a recovery program designed to repopulate the park with fishers...