Yellowstone National Park hosted 4,860,537 recreation visits in 2021 up 28% from 2020 making it the busiest year on record. July was the most visited month on record and was the first time that visitation exceeded 1 million visits in a single month. In 2021 visitation for May, June, July, August and September were the busiest on record. https...
Yellowstone National Park Bison Protection To Be Reviewed By Fish & Wildlife Service
U.S. District of Columbia Judge Randolph Moss has ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to revisit its decision regarding a denial of evidence submitted by bison advocates in an attempt to have Yellowstone National Park’s bison protected under the Endangered Species Act. Whether the issue will get more attention now that Martha Williams, ...
20 Gray Wolves From Yellowstone National Park Killed
Twenty gray wolves who roamed from Yellowstone National Park in recent months were shot by hunters the most killed by hunting in a single season since the predators were reintroduced to the region more than 25 years ago. According to the Associated Press fifteen were shot after roaming across the park’s northern border into Montana. Five more ...
Number Set For Winter Bison Hunt At Yellowstone
Federal tribal and state officials tentatively agreed Wednesday to cull between 600 and 900 bison from the Yellowstone National Park population this winter. They will either get shot by hunters as herds leave the Park to find food or they will be rounded up. Most of the captured animals will be sent to slaughter but about 80 can be entered int...
Yellowstone National Park Reports Decrease In October Visitation
Yellowstone National Park hosted 316,662 recreation visits this October, down 12% from 2020 which was the busiest October on record. Compared to October 2019, recreation visits this October were up 85%. So far in 2021, the park has hosted 4,789,644 recreation visits up 28% from the same period last year and up 20% from 2019. Several short-term...
Yellowstone National Park To End Winter Surveillance For Elk & Bison
Six years of monitoring Yellowstone National Park’s wildlife during winter has shown bison and elk are fairly accustomed to snowmobile and snowcoach use prompting managers to recommend ending the surveillance. The Park is taking comments on its proposal through November 1st. If approved the workload would be dropped from the staffs’ to-do lis...
Yellowstone National Park Records One Of Its Driest Seasons On Record
Compared to the 30-year average, some areas of Yellowstone National Park received less than one quarter the amount of precipitation in June and throughout much of the summer the park saw some of its driest conditions since the 1930 Dust Bowl era. This summer’s dry weather also meant the Park Service went into an immediate suppression policy f...
3 Wolves Killed During 1st Week Oh Hunting Season
The most viewed wolf pack in the world lost three of its members to Montana hunters in Yellowstone National Park during the first week of the hunting season in September. In a press release Monday, Park Superintendent Cam Sholly said these wolves are part of the park’s balanced ecosystem and represent one of the special parts of the park...
Montana’s Fishing Industry Feeling The Impact Of Summer Drought
Streams are shrinking because of heat and drought. In the Rocky Mountains, the attention is on trout fishing, a big part of both the United States’ $1-billion-a-year fly fishing industry and the region’s over $100-billion-a-year outdoor recreation industry. This summer, Montana imposed hoot owl restrictions on fabled trout rivers i...
Yellowstone National Park Breaks All-Time Visitation Records
Yellowstone National Park hosted 1,080,767 recreation visits in July making it the most-visited July on record a 13% increase from July 2020 and up 15% from 2019. This July also marked the most-visited month on record in Yellowstone’s history and the first-time visitation exceeded 1 million visits in a single month. So far in 2021, the park ha...