Groups file to intervene in bison lawsuit

07/14/11 LEWISTOWN, MT - Two pro-bison groups filed to intervene in lawsuits to stop a plan by the state of Montana to allow some bison room to migrate within Gardner Basin outside Yellowstone National Park. The Buffalo Field Campaign and Western Watersheds Project made the action.

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Loss of Top Predators Has Far-Reaching Effects

07/14/11 Photo credit: Young aspen trees in Yellowstone National Park. Photo by William Ripple, courtesy of Oregon State University. Sea otters eat sea urchins and sea urchins eat kelp. When sea otters are present, the coastal kelp forests maintain a healthy balance. But when the fur trade wiped out the otters in the Aleutian Islands in the 1990s, sea urchins grew wildly, devouring kelp, and the kelp ...

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Iobst Named Deputy Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park

07/19/11 Yellowstone National Park is getting a new Deputy Superintendent. Park Superintendent Dan Wenk says Steven Iobst will take over the duties beginning July 31.

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