Yellowstone National Park’s steaming geyser basins and pristine snowscapes used to be practically deserted in winter. But in the last 35 years there has been a veritable explosion of cold-season tourism here. In 1993, winter visitors – most of them on snowmobiles – topped the 143,000 mark, a level park officials had not expected until […]
Lynne Bama
Posted inMarch 6, 1995: The fires next time
Motorized beasts are noisy and stinky – and fun
Note: this article is a sidebar to a news story titled “Yellowstone snowmobile crowd may hit limit.” YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. – At 18 degrees below zero, the bison we meet on the road near Fishing Bridge are crusted and draped with frost. We pull our rented snowmobile over to one side and wait for […]
Posted inJanuary 23, 1995: What a long strange trip it's been
Yellowstone bison guts pile up
On the day after Christmas, bison migrating downhill from Yellowstone National Park’s northern range once again met gunfire in Montana. Caught in a power struggle between the National Park Service, whose policy of “natural regulation” has allowed their numbers to grow to an estimated 4,300, and the livestock industry, which is worried about disease, more […]
Posted inDecember 26, 1994: Albuquerque learns it really is a desert town
Home, home on the subdivisions
Yellowstone National Park’s bison have come a long way since 1901, when only 44 survivors of North America’s millions grazed inside its boundaries. Stu Coleman, chief of the park’s natural resources branch, estimates the current population at 4,300 – nearly a hundred times that number – and calls the place “a bison-generating machine.” In 1988-89, […]
Posted inAugust 29, 1975: Governors unite on energy rights
Speculators want Sunlight Basin
Six different applications have been files for constructing reservoirs in Wyoming’s Sunlight Basin, just east of Yellowstone National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 31, 1973: Cody: homes on the range
Cody: homes on the range
For the past year and a half, development near Cody, Wyo., has been stalled while the county writes and adopts comprehensive zoning regulations. But developers have plans for turning a narrow strip of land abutting the Shoshone National Forest into recreational homes, condominiums, and golf courses. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E