On the heels of reports of a grizzly bear crawling into bed with campers just outside of Yellowstone National Park’s northeast entrance last week,  the second black bear within the past two weeks was put down by Yellowstone park rangers.
[Open a Google map of the incident location.]
After one of the harshest winters in a decade [...]

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[Shoreline of Phelps Lake in LSR Preserve, Grand Teton NP / NPS photo]
A June 21 news update from the National Park Service (NPS). Stay tuned for more on the trails in this wonderful new addition to Grand Teton National Park, which I recently had the pleasure of exploring with my family while researching for the [...]

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“Yellowstone’s 45th parallel sign, a popular tourist stop on the North Entrance Road, has been moved to a new location.
The 45th parallel is an imaginary line that circles the globe at the point halfway between the equator and the North Pole. This same line passes through Minneapolis-St. Paul; Ottawa, Canada; Venice, Italy; and the northern [...]

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