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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“Visitation to Yellowstone National Park hit a new record in June, and is on a near record pace for the first six months of the year.The park recorded 612,095 recreational visits in June 2008. That’s up 2,489 visitors from June 2007, and marks only the second time in history that Yellowstone’s June visitation has topped [...]

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