• Visitors stand on the boardwalk of Grand Prismatic, the park's largest hot spring which is ringed with orange, brown and yellow runoff channels.

    Yellowstone

    National Park ID,MT,WY

Grizzly Bear Mortality

Known grizzly bear mortalities in Yellowstone National Park, 2000 - 2011

Year

Known Natural Death

Vehicle Strike Mortality

Management Removal Euthanize

Management Removal To Zoo

Accidental Management Death

Total

2011

3

1

2

2

0

8

2010

3

1

0

1

1

6

2009

2

0

0

0

0

2

2008

5

0

0

0

0

5

2007

2

0

0

1

0

3

2006

0

1

0

0

0

1

2005

0

0

0

0

0

0

2004

2

1

1

0

0

4

2003

0

1

0

0

0

1

2002

1

2

0

0

0

3

2001

5

0

0

0

0

5

2000

2

0

0

0

0

2



Did You Know?

Summer Crowd at Old Faithful.

At peak summer levels, 3,500 employees work for Yellowstone National Park concessioners and about 800 work for the National Park Service.