Winter Photo Festival To Be Held In West Yellowstone
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Contact: Al Nash or Stacy Vallie, (307) 344-2015
Photographers are invited to share their favorite winter photos of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem during a Winter Photo Festival to be held next month in West Yellowstone. The festival is sponsored by the National Park Service and the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center. It will be held at the West Yellowstone Visitor Information Center on Wednesday, March 11 at 7:00 PM. Photographers are asked to bring digital photos on a thumb drive or photo CD so they can display and narrate their photos. Interested photographers should contact Rich Jelhe at 307-344-2840 for more information. Participants must register by Friday, March 6. This free program is the third in this year’s winter speaker series. The West Yellowstone Visitor Information Center is located at the corner of Canyon and Yellowstone in West Yellowstone, Montana. - www.nps.gov/yell - |
Did You Know?
The 1988 fires affected 793,880 acres or 36 percent of the park. Five fires burned into the park that year from adjacent public lands. The largest, the North Fork Fire, started from a discarded cigarette. It burned more than 410,000 acres.