BREAKING NEWSOne dead in July 4th shooting at Yellowstone National Park right outside popular hotel
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Daily Mail UK ^
| Independence Day 2024 | Will Potter
A suspected gunman was killed in a horror shootout at Yellowstone National Park as families prepared to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday at the landmark. A
Yellowstone National Park ranger was also shot in the episode but is in stable condition, and officials said there is no further threat to the public. The shooting took place in the park's Canyon Village, which remains locked down as the FBI leads an investigation into the incident. It came as rangers responded to reports of a person making threats with a firearm, which began hours before on Wednesday night. Rangers began to...
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When People Disappear In Yellowstone National Park, Some Are Never Found
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Cowboy State Daily ^
| June 29, 2024 | Jen Kocher
Despite huge acreage and treacherous terrain, most missing persons at Yellowstone National Park are found. But
a small number of disappearances have never been solved. The reasons why are as vast as the park. ======================================== Dan Campbell was illegally hunting elk antler sheds in Yellowstone Park when he disappeared more than three decades ago. Campbell had set off from Hellroaring Trailhead to Jardine, Montana, outside of the park's boundaries, with his dog Freckles for a four-day trek. However, when the 42-year-old Montana man failed to appear at the designated location and time, his girlfriend, Tracy Erb, reported him missing April...
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Rare white buffalo born at Yellowstone prompts Lakota Sioux celebration
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The Guardian uK ^
| 12 Jun 2024 | Oliver Milman
A rare white buffalo has been born in Yellowstone national park, with the arrival prompting local Lakota Sioux leaders to plan a special celebration, with the calf representing a sign of hope and the need to look after the planet. The
white calf was reportedly spotted shortly after its birth, on Tuesday last week, by park visitor Erin Braaten, a photographer. She took several shots of the wobbly baby ...
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Observers Say Yellowstone’s White Bison Is the Real Deal, Plan Ceremony With Native Elders
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Cowboy State Daily ^
| June 10, 2024 | Mark Heinz
This white bison calf was born on June 4, 2024 in Yellowstone National Park. (Courtesy Photo) As of Monday, there still was no official confirmation of a rare white bison calf being born in Yellowstone National Park, but some bison advocates say it’s the real deal. Native
American elders and others plan to celebrate the white calf’s birth later this month. Frequent Yellowstone visitor Erin Braaten of Kalispell, Montana, sent Cowboy State Daily photos she took of a white bison calf that she said was born in Yellowstone’s wildlife-rich Lamar Valley on June 4. There were some rumors circulating on...
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Five grizzly bear cubs make the largest litter in Yellowstone-area history-Record-setting brood seen trailing mom in Yellowstone’s Little America region on Wednesday.
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WyoFile ^
| 6-7-24 | Mike Koshmrl
Five grizzly bear cubs with a single adult female (one on the left of mom) were documented by West Yellowstone resident Carolyn Golba on Wednesday. (Carolyn Golba/screenshot from video) Within hours of the sighting on Wednesday, Frank van Manen caught word that there was a grizzly sow with five cubs in tow
spotted in Yellowstone National Park. Five cubs following mom is so unlikely that van Manen, who leads the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team, pondered an explanation. Maybe, he said, there was an adoption event: Sometimes two female siblings produce cubs in the same year, and one ends up...
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Rare Wild White Bison Born In Yellowstone, Photographer Gets Photos
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Cowboy State Daily ^
| June 05, 2024 | Mark Heinz
This white bison calf was born Tuesday afternoon in Yellowstone National Park. (Courtesy Erin Braaten) A rare white bison calf was born late Tuesday in Yellowstone National Park. A wildlife photographer originally thought it was a coyote until she looked back and saw the calf. "It
was amazing," she said. In a rare event, a white bison calf was born in Yellowstone National Park on Tuesday afternoon. Park visitor and wildlife photographer Erin Braaten was there at just the right time to practically witness the calf’s birth in Yellowstone’s famed and wildlife-rich Lamar Valley. “The afterbirth, the placenta was still...
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Yellowstone Bison Was ‘Defending Its Space’ When It Gored Elderly Woman
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Cowboy State Daily ^
| June 03, 2024 | Greg Johnson
An 83-year-old South Carolina woman visiting Yellowstone National Park was gored by a bison Saturday that was “defending its space,” the National Park Service reported Monday. She was airlifted to a hospital in Idaho. An 83-year-old South Carolina woman visiting Yellowstone National Park was gored by a bison Saturday. The bison was
“defending its space” near the Storm Point Trail at Yellowstone Lake when it “came within a few feet of the woman and lifted her about a foot of the ground with its horns,” the National Park Service says in a Monday evening press release announcing the goring. It’s...
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A hidden danger lurks beneath Yellowstone...Catastrophic hydrothermal explosions rocked the park in the past and could again in the future
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Science News ^
| Douglas Fox
Mount Ontake in Japan rises 3,067 meters above sea level — a windswept giant standing head and shoulders above densely forested hills. This
ancient volcano is a popular trekking site. A trail traverses its ash- and boulder-strewn ridges. There are several huts and a shrine. On September 27, 2014, hikers took advantage of a blue sky and gentle wind. At 11:52 a.m., over a hundred of them stood on the summit, eating snacks and taking photos. Disaster struck with little warning. The windows and doors of a nearby hut rattled, vibrated by a low-frequency shock wave inaudible to humans. People...
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Idaho man arrested for kicking bison in Yellowstone
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Not The Bee ^
| may 1, 2024 | Mister Retrops
Very drunk Idaho man Clarence Yoder tried it, and as the saying goes, he found out. Police
caught up with Yoder at the Yellowstone hospital and arrested him. He was charged with disorderly conduct, approaching wildlife, disturbing wildlife, and being intoxicated "to a degree that may endanger oneself".
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Idaho man arrested for kicking Yellowstone bison while drunk: officials
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foxnews.com ^
| April 30, 2024 | Greg Norman Fox News
An Idaho man has been arrested after allegedly kicking a Yellowstone bison in the leg while drunk, park officials say. Clarence
Yoder, 40, of Idaho Falls, ended up injuring himself in the incident that happened near the park’s West Entrance on April 21, according to the National Park Service. "Rangers responded to the area after receiving a report of an individual who harassed a herd of bison and kicked a bison in the leg," the NPS said in a statement. "They located the suspect's vehicle near the West Entrance and stopped it in the town of West Yellowstone, Montana." "Yoder...
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Man Accused Of Drunk-Kicking Bison Sets Off Yellowstone’s Animal Attack Season
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Cowboy State Daily ^
| April 29, 2024 | Mark Heinz
The 2024 tourist season has just begun in Yellowstone, and there are already plenty of incidents of people getting too close to wildlife, like in this recent file photo. On
Monday, Yellowstone National Park annoucned the arrest of a man who not only allegedly harassed a herd of bison, he kicked one in the leg. (Reader photo: Ralee Plunkett) An Idaho man is accused of kicking a bison while drunk, becoming Yellowstone National Park’s first bison attack victim of the season, the park announced Monday. The incident took stupid human tricks to an entirely new level, the curator of the...
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Yellowstone’s "Limpy The Coyote" Now Teaching Other Critters To Beg
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Cowboy State Daily ^
| March 20, 2024 | Mark Heinz
Limpy the Coyote, Yellowstone's best-known animal con artist, is teaching other critters how to beg tourists for food. Wildlife
observers say other coyotes have been picking up on the scam and following Limpy’s lead. Limpy the coyote, also known as Tripod, frequents the roadside in Yellowstone National Park, where he tries to score snacks by looking pathetic for tourists. (Photo Courtesy Isabella Smedley) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As Yellowstone National Park gears up for its forthcoming peak season, one of its best-known grifters — Limpy the coyote — is at it again. And he’s starting to bring friends along. Limpy, also known as...
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Red Spouter, Yellowstone’s Multi-Personality Thermal, Created By 1959 Earthquake
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Cowboy State Daily ^
| February 25, 2024 | Andrew Rossi
Created by a 7.3-magnitude earthquake in 1959, Yellowstone's Red Spouter is a thermal with many personalities. Depending
on the season, it can be a hot spring, a boiling mudpot or it can just spew hot gas. Many of Yellowstone National Park’s thermal features are defined by their personalities. The regularity of Old Faithful, the colossal noise and steam clouds of Steamboat Geyser or the colorful palette of the Artists’ Paintpots. By that logic, the Red Spouter might be Yellowstone's most ambitious. Instead of building a reputation around a single personality, it tries to — and succeeds at — being many...
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The Roundup: Earthquakes And Volcanoes In Yellowstone With Geophysicist Mike Poland
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Cowboy State Daily ^
| January 26, 2024 | Wendy Corr
Geophysicist Mike Poland joins Cowboy State Daily's Wendy Corr on "The Roundup" about the super-volcano in Yellowstone, the thousands of earthquakes that hit Yellowstone every year, and why Yellowstone is not likely to blow up anytime soon.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Conversation With Geophysicist Mike Poland Wendy Corr Well, hey there, folks, and welcome
to The Roundup. We are a Cowboy State Daily podcast featuring voices, opinions and perspectives from interesting people in the Cowboy State. I'm your host, Wendy Corr. And we've got a fascinating subject today that we're going to talk about with Mike Poland, who is a geophysicist with...
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Yellowstone tourist learns that trying to ride bison really isn't a good idea
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www.advnture.com ^
| January 2, 2024 | By Cat Ellis
Bison are responsible for more injuries than any other animal at Yellowstone, including bears and snakes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All visitors to Yellowstone National Park are warned to give the animals plenty of space, but sometimes that advice goes in one ear and out the other, as one tourist recently demonstrated. Ignoring
official advice not to pet the fluffy cows, the man approached a particularly large bison and asked if he could stroke its fur. Excited, he then asked whether he could ride it before being startled back by the animal's bristling reaction. A video of the close call (which you can...
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Pierce Brosnan is in hot water, accused of trespassing in a Yellowstone thermal area
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ABC News ^
| December 28, 2023 | Mead Gruver
Pierce Brosnan has been in hot water plenty of times as an actor playing the secret agent James BondPierce Brosnan, whose fictitious movie character James Bond has been in hot water plenty of times, is now facing heat in real life, charged with stepping out of bounds in a thermal area during
a recent visit to Yellowstone National Park. Brosnan walked in an off-limits area at Mammoth Terraces, in the northern part of Yellowstone near the Wyoming-Montana line, on Nov. 1, according to two federal citations issued Tuesday. Brosnan, 70, is scheduled for a mandatory court appearance on Jan. 23...
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Montana Ranchers Have A Few Stern Words For ‘Yellowstone,’ And They Ain’t Good
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Daily Caller ^
| KAY SMYTHE NEWS AND COMMENTARY WRITER October 12, 2023 9:53 AM ET FONT SIZE:
Some local Montana ranchers aren’t so happy with the “Yellowstone” show, despite it bringing millions into the state’s economy since its premiere. “The
show has given our ranchers a bad name,” rancher for Nine Quarter Circle Ranch, Mark Greeno, told WhiskeyRiff in an article published Wednesday. Apparently Greeno is not alone in his beliefs, with other ranchers noting how their job really doesn’t contain as much violence as the hit show depicts. And because most of the show is filmed throughout the summer months, most tourists have no idea how cold it gets in the state throughout the rest of...
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Tourists sprint towards a mama bear and cubs at Yellowstone National Park with one man carrying a child in his arms in 'absolutely insane' dash to see the animals
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Daily Mail UK ^
| September 15, 2023 | Madison Burgess
A shocking video of tourists sprinting towards a bear at Yellowstone National Park has gone viral and prompted backlash on social media. The
clip shows a mother black bear and her two cubs sniffing around in the grass, alongside a road full of queuing cars. Suddenly, a group of tourists jump out of their vehicles, point, and then begin to sprint towards the bears. There are four men running, one of whom appears to be carrying a toddler in his arms, while a woman comes into shot approaching the animals with a camera. Thankfully, the mama bear and her cubs...
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Bad Yellowstone: Park Was All-Out Petting Zoo 100 Years Ago
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cowboystatedaily.com ^
| September 09, 2023 | Jake Nichols
Yellowstone today is on high alert for “touron” behavior, but in the Roaring ’20s it was an all-out petting zoo. Attractions
included the popular feeding of the bears -- a nightly dinner show that became more popular than Old Faithful. Hardly a day has gone by this summer season where a tourist in Yellowstone National Park hasn’t been caught doing something illegal, dangerous, stupid — or all three. Facebook page Yellowstone National Park: Invasion of The Idiots! has become the TMZ of the NPS (National Park Service). Public shaming hasn’t seemed to slow offenders much. Healthy fines do not appear...
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Woman found dead after apparent grizzly bear encounter near Yellowstone
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The Hill ^
| 07/24/2023 | SARAH FORTINSKY
A woman was found dead after an apparent encounter with a grizzly bear near Yellowstone National Park in Montana on Saturday. The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) said investigators confirmed grizzly bear tracks at the scene, adding the investigation is ongoing. The
woman was discovered on the Buttermilk Trail, an area about eight miles west of West Yellowstone. The Custer Gallatin National Forest, which borders Yellowstone in southeastern Montana, issued an emergency closure of the area “for human safety.”
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