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Yellowstone Park rangers will be conducting traffic safety checkpoints this holiday weekend.
Traditionally, Memorial Day weekend marks the start of the summer season in Yellowstone National Park, making it very popular with visitors from close to home and abroad alike....

Yellowstone’s sole bear spray rental kiosk opened yesterday in the Canyon Village Visitor Center.
Bear Aware, founded last summer by hiker/outdoor enthusiast Sally Vering, aims to insure visitors (especially hikers and campers) against bear attacks. Indeed, although the National Park Service recommends visitors carry bear spray (and hike in groups...

Yellowstone National Park has unveiled a new awareness campaign for park visitors of all stripes: “A Bear Doesn’t Care.”
The gist? You should always carry bear spray. Always.
Whether you’re backpacking deep in the backcountry or just strolling around Bunsen Peak, angling for trout or trying to get the perfect shot along the banks of the Firehole, the Park encourages you to be mindful and prepared for a bear encounter—and...

They do it for love.
They’re the all-volunteer leaders of the National Wolfwatcher Coalition, a nonprofit wildlife advocacy group that, surprisingly, doesn’t sell memberships in its organization.
The leader of the organization is Nancy Warren, a retired Social Security Administration manager who lives in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. She’s been a wolf advocate in her home state for many years, but about three years ago became the executive director...