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Bison Charges 34-Year-Old Man in Yellowstone National Park
A 34-year-old man from Colorado was charged on Monday by a bison in Yellowstone National Park.
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Bison Gores Colorado Man After Charging Family Visiting Yellowstone National Park
A Colorado man who Yellowstone National Park officials say got too close to a bison was thrown by the animal while trying to get himself and a child away from danger. The bison gored the 34-year-old Colorado Springs man on Monday, injuring his arm. A video of the encounter appeared to show the man behind the bison when it charged...
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Yellowstone Set to Reopen Within Two Weeks
After historic floods destroyed roads and nearby homes and pushed out over 10,000 visitors, Yellowstone National Park is set to reopen most entrances within the next two week with limited visitor access.
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Yellowstone Park Reopens After Changes Wrought by Flood
Hundreds of cars, trucks and recreational vehicles are backed up in long lines at entrances to Yellowstone National Park as it partially reopens following destructive floods that closed the park last week.
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Yellowstone Park Aims for Quick Reopening After Floods
Most of Yellowstone National Park should reopen within the next two weeks — much faster than originally expected.
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Outside Yellowstone, Flooded Towns Struggle to Recover
With Yellowstone National Park pushing to re-open to tourists more quickly than anticipated after record floods pounded southern Montana, some of those hardest hit in the disaster live far from the famous park’s limelight and are leaning heavily on one another to pull their lives out of the mud. In the farming town of Fromberg, the Clarks Fork River flooded...
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Yellowstone National Park to Partly Reopen After Floods
Yellowstone National Park will partially reopen at 8 a.m. Wednesday, after catastrophic flooding destroyed bridges and roads and drove out tourists. The Park Service announced Saturday that visitors will once again be allowed on the park’s southern loop, under a license plate system designed to manage the crowds: Those with even-numbered plates will be allowed on even-numbered days, and those...
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Yellowstone Flooding Rebuild Could Take Years, Cost Billions
Created in 1872 as the United States was recovering from the Civil War, Yellowstone was the first of the national parks that came to be referred to as America’s best idea. Now, the home to gushing geysers, thundering waterfalls and some of the country’s most plentiful and diverse wildlife is facing its biggest challenge in decades. Floodwaters this week...
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Montana Governor Under Fire for Vacationing in Italy as Yellowstone Flooded
Montana’s governor was not in Montana — or in the U.S. at all — when punishing floods hit Yellowstone National Park and communities on its fringes this week. He was in Italy.
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From Dry to Deluge, How Heavy Snow, Rain Flooded Yellowstone
A culmination of unique events led to the recent extensive flooding in the Yellowstone region.
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Yellowstone Park Gateway Towns Fret About Tourism Future
After the severe flooding, business owners in some of the gateway towns leading to Yellowstone National Park are trying to figure out how they’ll make ends meet without a steady stream of tourists.
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Yellowstone Floodwaters Threaten Water Supplies in Montana
Damaging floodwaters that tore through Yellowstone National Park menaced communities downstream where residents cleaned up from the mess and kept an eye on rising river levels.
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Watch: Drone Footage Shows Floods Sweeping Through Montana
The floods triggered Yellowstone National Park to close and caused damage in nearby Montana.
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WATCH: Historic Floodwaters Rage Through Yellowstone National Park
Historic floodwaters tore through Yellowstone National Park this week, driving out over 10,000 visitors, damaging surrounding neighborhoods, and forever altering the landscape.
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Historic Floods Leave Yellowstone Landscape ‘Dramatically Changed'
Historic floodwaters that raged through Yellowstone National Park may have permanently altered the course of a popular fishing river and left the sweeping landscape forever changed.
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Yellowstone Flooding Forces 10,000 to Leave National Park
Yellowstone National Park officials say more than 10,000 visitors have been ordered out of the nation’s oldest national park after unprecedented flooding tore through its northern half, washing out bridges and roads and sweeping an employee bunkhouse miles downstream. Remarkably, no one was reported injured or killed. Superintendent Cam Sholly said Tuesday the only visitors left in the massive park...
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Yellowstone Mountain That Honored Massacre Leader Renamed
A U.S. government panel has renamed a Yellowstone National Park mountain that had been named for a military officer who helped lead a massacre of Native Americans.
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US Wildlife Agency to Consider Protecting Yellowstone Bison
A wildlife agency that lost key court rulings over its denial of petitions to protect Yellowstone National Park bison will undertake a comprehensive study over whether the animals should be covered under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday. The decision follows a federal court ruling in January that ordered the U.S. Fish and...
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Bison Gores Woman in Yellowstone National Park, Tosses Her 10 Feet in the Air
A bison has gored a 25-year-old woman in Yellowstone National Park.
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Montana Sheriff Says Hiker Killed, Grizzly Bear Suspected
A hiker in Montana has been killed in a suspected encounter with a grizzly bear north of Yellowstone National Park