National Parks
Toll of government shutdown still being tallied at national parks
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The National Park Service tapped reserves from visitor fees to keep the parks open and safe during the partial government shutdown. But where did the money go?
Montana Free Press (http://www.montanafreepress.org/tag/yellowstone-national-park/)
The National Park Service tapped reserves from visitor fees to keep the parks open and safe during the partial government shutdown. But where did the money go?
By Angus M. Thuermer Jr., WyoFile.com
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — A bison calf lunges into the mechanical livestock squeeze chute, bucking and kicking, its lashing hooves and horns clattering against the metal frame. It struggles for half a minute, huffing, sometimes bleating in its alien enclosure.
by Angus M. Thuermer Jr., WyoFile.com | Dec. 7, 2015
The country’s top wildlife official wrote state game chiefs in September agreeing the Yellowstone-area grizzly bear population could decline to 600 — 114 fewer than today’s count of 714 — once federal protections are lifted.