This article originally appeared in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Last weekend, thousands of people in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem took to the trails to knowingly, or unknowingly, celebrate National Trails Day. Many good samaritan hikers, bikers and outdoor recreationists spent their day on a favorite trail with a shovel or picking up trash. National […]
[…] per car per week. His fee would have applied to the busy summer season in only 17 of the crown jewels in the park system such as Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and Grand Teton. The park service estimated that raising fees to $70 would have raised an additional $70 million, which would have been […]
For the price of an ice cream cone at Yellowstone’s Canyon Lodge we will collectively be investing millions in the future of our beloved public lands.
Road maintenance required near the Firehole River in Yellowstone National Park Prepared statement before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources’ hearing to examine deferred maintenance and operational needs of the National Park Service on April 17, 2018. Summary Congress has prioritized the acquisition of new parks over the care and maintenance […]
[…] species, the answer is the same: If the marginal benefits exceed the marginal costs, save it. Let us apply this to the issue of wolf reintroduction into Yellowstone National Park. In 1995, during the Clinton administration, Bruce Babbitt, then Secretary of the Interior, released a few Canadian timber wolves in Yellowstone with the idea […]
Hank Fischer, a special projects coordinator for the National Wildlife Federation, tells the story of wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone National Park.
[…] recent years had household incomes of $100,000 or higher. A 2013 study by researchers from the University of Idaho found that the median household income of summer Yellowstone visitors was $75,000—nearly 50 percent higher than the national median. Yet currently, all American taxpayers subsidize their recreation on public lands. The outdoor industry may not […]
[…] admission fees are charged, they make up a small portion of the cost of the average park visit — just 3 percent according to visitor data from “destination” parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite. For a typical family visit, expenses for transportation, lodging, and food will swamp the cost of park fees. Truly making parks accessible to low-income […]
Grizzly bear with cub in Yellowstone National Park. Courtesy of Frank van Manen / USGS. It comes as no surprise that environmental groups filed a lawsuit in U.S. district court on August 29 to stop delisting of the grizzly bear as a threatened species. According to WildEarth Guardians, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision on July […]
[…] hunting. Ultimately, our goal is to stitch together 3.5 million acres of both private and public land in the region—an area more than twice the size of Yellowstone National Park. Once these fragmented public and private lands are connected, the reserve will provide a continuous land area collaboratively managed for wildlife and recreation, the […]