Yellowstone Treasures Blog

I've just learned that President Obama has designated this month as National Wilderness Month. That is certainly a step in the right direction. Some years ago, having been amazed to learn that there is no designated wilderness inside Yellowstone Park, I… more »

As a guidebook author inclined to nit-pick, I watched the Ken Burns/Dayton Duncan twelve-hour series last week with all my antennas working, in case they should be transmitting any of the falsehoods about Yellowstone that I’ve found so often in popular m… more »

In recent Yellowstone news, we find that snowmobile permits to enter the park are now set at 318 per day for the next two winter seasons. I haven't learned how this number was picked, but it's a step in the right direction. Since fewer sleds than that ha… more »

The recent flurry of media and internet excitement over this month’s earthquake swarm in Yellowstone reminded me of the interview with Professor of Geology Emeritus Bruno J. Giletti that appears at: http://www.yellowstonetreasures.com/supervolcano.htm.… more »

Visitation to Yellowstone Park set a record in 2009, despite the recession and last winter's relatively low number of snow-time vacationers. According to the Billings Gazette (disclosure: that's my hometown newspaper): "The previous record for visitat… more »

The best news is that 2009 is proving to be a record year for Yellowstone visitation. Most roads are now closed, and snow pack is beginning to accumulate in many parts of the park, but through October the number of people visiting the park has never been… more »

Just in case you live close enough to make a dash for the park before the snows pile up, you should know that all roads except the all-season one between the North and Northeast entrances will close to cars, trucks, and buses at 8:00 am Monday, November… more »

According to the Defenders of Wildlife Web site, the judge agreed that, in delisting the bears in 2007, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service did not "take into consideration the continued decline of the whitebark pine, a critical grizzly food source threat… more »

Autumn is a beautiful time to visit Yellowstone, but you need to plan your route especially carefully this year. You’ll find construction and even closed roads in a number of areas both in and approaching the park.Here are some places to avoid or plan around: more »

Those of us who watch Yellowstone closely—although sometimes from afar— will be keeping our collective eye on the news next month. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloywill hear arguments June 15 in a lawsuit filed by environmental groups over the 2008 act… more »

In less than two weeks Granite Peak Publications will know the results of this country’s most prominent small press book publishing competition for 2010. Yellowstone Treasures: The Traveler’s Companion to the National Park, Updated Third Edition, is one… more »

I’m recently back home after my trip to New York, where the third edition of Yellowstone Treasures was honored as a finalist in the Travel category of the annual Benjamin Franklin Awards. This was the twenty-second year of the Independent Book Publishers… more »

For those of us who live too far from Yellowstone to make it practical to take bikes along when we visit, there are now bikes for rent in Old Faithful Village. The concessionaire Xanterra announces that “the bike shop at Old Faithful Snow Lodge offers hy… more »