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Yellowstone National Park
What's New on the Yellowstone Website?

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We are constantly updating the contents of this website. This page was created to assist you in finding recent additions.

• There are frequent additions to our News Releases page.




• The Winter Use report "Natural Soundscape Monitoring in Yellowstone National Park" was added - July 9, 2008

Exterior Sound Level Measurements of Over-snow Vehicles at Yellowstone National Park, June 2008 is available - July 8, 2008

The Sylvan Pass Study Group Statement was posted - July 7, 2008

Yellowstone Science Volume 16, Number 2 is available online - June 6, 2008

• Information on our Young Scientist Program is available - May 22, 2008

• Information and dates for Teacher Workshops in Yellowstone - May 22, 2008

• Yellowstone Today Summer 2008 edition is online - May 1, 2008

2008 Ranger Program schedules are available online - April 30, 2008

• The 2008 Yellowstone Resource & Issues handbook is online - March 18, 2008

• Spring 2008 Yellowstone Today is available online - March 14, 2008

• New spring biking information is available - March 4, 2008

• Facility operating hours and dates have been updated - February 28, 2008

• Our new live streaming video webcam at Old Faithful is now available for public viewing - January 23, 2008

• A link to a 3D video game Wolf Quest was added. This game was produced by the Minnesota Zoo and Eduweb and is designed to teach wolf behavior and ecology - January 2, 2008

• A new link was added on the Nature page to the Greater Yellowstone Science Learning Center: Connecting scientists to parks and science to people by sharing information on many of Yellowstone's, Grand Teton's, and Bighorn Canyon's resources.

Fire in Yellowstone Pineland in 1988  

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.

Last Updated: July 15, 2008 at 09:07 EST