[…] who is an idea guy, got to thinking about all the nutrient runoff from cultivated fields that was flowing into his pond as well as the nearby Yellowstone River. Based on his experience fishing in pristine Wisconsin lakes with floating islands, it occurred to him that islands might help solve his pond problem and […]
[…] this fall. And if past is prologue, Mike Finley expects to see a significant surge of interest in our nation’s greatest treasures. Finley, a former superintendent for Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Everglades national parks, recalls how “visitors came to the Civil War parks in droves,” after “The Civil War” aired. Couple this with the centennial […]
[…] site are tools of engagement,” Peterson explained. “If the experience ends there, kids and adults are shortchanging themselves of the opportunity to get real in nature.” Virtual Yellowstone Yellowstone National Park has its own virtual activities for school-aged children as well as teachers. Since 2001, Yellowstone has offered electronic field trips—eTrips—to share the resources […]
[…] that coincides with state and local standards to foster partnerships with schools. About 7,500 participants take part each year in courses that range from tracking wolves in Yellowstone (for high school kids) to exploring overturned rocks in a nearby creek. The classes range in cost and are not didactic, Harrison says. “The approach is […]
[…] nonprofit groups are already using private resources to produce positive environmental results. Land trusts, for example, have conserved acreage equivalent to 16 1/2 times the size of Yellowstone National Park, according to studies. And for-profit firms are making unsubsidized profits by producing new services. As T.J. Rogers, chief executive of SunPower Corp., put it: […]
[…] for one person, it is available to all at no cost. Views of mountains is another. The enjoyment you get from knowing that wolves now roam in Yellowstone does not preclude others from the same enjoyment. Environmentalists and economists refer to this public good as an “existence value,” and everyone can enjoy that existence […]
[…] a new concept. In 1872, proponents of a bill to create the first national park strategically placed in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol photographs of Yellowstone’s wonders taken by William Henry Jackson. The vintage photographs left a marked impression on the public and their congressmen, and helped seal the fate of Yellowstone. […]
Twenty years ago, fires broke out in Yellowstone National Park that started a public debate about firefighting and public land management that continues today. I covered those fires as a newspaper reporter and, like all else involved, I couldn’t know that the Yellowstone fires were the first in a series of huge fires that […]
Many view the 1995 reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park as a landmark conservation achievement—one that historians may refer to as the point when Americans changed their attitudes toward large predators. But as a conservation leader who was involved with this issue for more than 15 years, I view it as a poor […]
[…] contributions to buy a herd for the newly created National Bison Range in Montana. While many bison were preserved as part of public herds in places like Yellowstone, bison restoration on public land has been limited by geography and capacity. In 1914, the federal government owned just 10 percent of the captive bison in […]