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** Yellowstone turns 150
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Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Teepee installation event at Yellowstone National Park's North Entrance | National Park Service ([link removed])

On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed legislation making Yellowstone the first national park in the United States ([link removed]) . 150 years later, as visitors flock to Yellowstone for its iconic scenery and wildlife, park officials are using the major milestone to look to the future.

For more than 10,000 years ([link removed]) , Native American Tribes have called Yellowstone home, harnessing the region's abundant natural resources. Upon the park's creation, many were forcibly removed, and their history and traditions were largely erased from the history taught to visitors. Now, Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly is reaching out to local Tribes ([link removed]) , aiming to partner with them to preserve and teach the park's Indigenous history. “I think we need to tell history accurately — that’s our job,” said ([link removed]) Sholly. “And a lot of times, that’s painful. And there are lessons from the past that the public needs to know.”

In recent decades, Yellowstone has become famous for its iconic wolves—reintroduced in 1995 ([link removed]) after being exterminated decades earlier. The reintroduction has been hailed as a major conservation success. Upon wolf reintroduction, positive impacts rippled through the Yellowstone ecosystem—vegetation regrew as elk populations dipped, riverbanks stabilized, and songbirds returned. Now, however, one-third of Yellowstone's wolves are dead ([link removed]) after the deadliest hunting season in recent memory. Just weeks ago, a judge ordered protections reinstated ([link removed]) for gray wolves across much of the country, and federal wildlife
officials are considering returning the wolf to the Endangered Species List.

Going forward, officials at Yellowstone will have their plates full with increasing visitation, climate change, fully telling the park's history, and wolves. In the meantime, take a look at a journey through Yellowstone in pictures ([link removed]) .
Quick hits


** How the oil industry is attempting to harness the war in Ukraine
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Popular Information ([link removed])


** Colorado wildlife managers consider plan to reintroduce wolverines
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Colorado Sun ([link removed])


** Who decides the future of Montana's Badger-Two Medicine?
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Montana Public Radio ([link removed])


** The oil industry's behind-the-scenes plan to tank a policy pushing electric stoves and furnaces in Colorado
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Colorado Public Radio ([link removed])


** Exploring the history of Yellowstone National Park on its 150th birthday
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NPR ([link removed]) | Washington Post ([link removed]) [history] | Washington Post ([link removed]) [wolves] | Bozeman Daily Chronicle ([link removed])


** Opinion: Shortsighted fossil fuel state lawsuits backfire
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RealClear Energy ([link removed])


** Opinion: Protect our ancestors, Chaco from corporations
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Navajo Times ([link removed])
Quote of the day
” These states need savvy elected officials willing to face new energy market realities, diversify revenue streams, and protect taxpayers, not a bunch of inept oil and gas industry junkies who keep shooting themselves—and their constituents—in the foot.”
—David Jenkins ([link removed]) , president of Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship
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** @Interior ([link removed])
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✨Glamour Shots, by pine marten✨

These rare to spot mammals are in the weasel family and have chocolate fur and endearing fox-like faces. They depend on mature coniferous or mixed alpine forests, like the ones found in the @YellowstoneNPS ecosystem.

Photo by KJ Lombard

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