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| FRIDAY April 20, 2001 Vol 5, # 39 |
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| FRIDAY April 20, 2001 Vol 5, # 39 |
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YELLOWSTONE ROAD
REPORT PUBLISHER EDITOR-IN- |
YELLOWSTONE NOW OPEN TO
MOTOR VEHICLES News Brief YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. -- This morning Yellowstone opened to motor vehicles at 8 a.m. Today marks the beginning of Yellowstone's spring tourist season, with the Mammoth to Norris Junction to Madison Junction to Old Faithful, and Madison Junction to West Entrance roads now open. There are limited facilities and services available this time of the year. The Old Faithful Photo Shop and Old Faithful Lower Station and wrecker service are open as of today. The Canyon Nature Store and Canyon Service Station, along with wrecker service, will open on April 27. The Mammoth General Store, Mammoth Clinic, and Mammoth campground remain open year-round. All other facilities and campgrounds remain closed until their scheduled opening dates throughout May and June. The next road opening will be Norris to Canyon, which will open April 27. This will be followed by Canyon to Lake to East Entrance and Tower Junction to Tower Fall, both of which will open on May 4. Lake to West Thumb, West Thumb to Old Faithful, and Old Faithful to the South Entrance are scheduled to open on May 11. Tower Fall to Canyon over Dunraven Pass is scheduled to open lastly, on June 15. The Northeast entrance via Cooke City will open as conditions allow. The Beartooth Highway and Chief Joseph Scenic Highway, the two roads leading to Cooke City and the Northeast Entrance, get large amounts of snow during the winter months, and typically are not opened to the public until the middle of May or later.
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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS AND COLUMNISTS Russ Finley
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WOLF UPDATE HELENA, Mont. (USFWS) -- Northwest Montana wolves are being more intensively monitored during the denning season and after the release of 5 wolves in Kootenai National Forest. Volunteers Terrence McClelland, Kerry Healy, and Therese Hartman are monitoring wolves in and around Glacier National Park. On Friday April 6, a mortality signal was received from a male Whitefish Pack wolf (#251) in the North Fork of the Flathead River valley. The carcass was retrieved by agent Branzell and biologist Meier along with NPS ranger Scott Emmerich on April 7. Montana FWP warden Lee Anderson also assisted. The cause of death is under investigation. The five recently released (3/28) Boulder wolves had regrouped (the male separated initially) and had stayed a few miles north of their release site along the west shore of Koocanusa Reservoir until the 10th. Recently, the male was by himself again and the four females had moved north and were a mile into Canada and about a mile from the west side of the Koocanusa Res. The "East Kootenai" pack containing a yearling female wolf originally from the Graves Creek Pack, was also located on the West side of Lake Koocanusa in Canada some 21 km north of the border. |
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| BICYCLE FATALITY IN GRAND
TETON by National Park Service GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (NPS) -- A bicycle accident in the park resulted in the death of former park employee Jeff Pool on the afternoon of Sunday, April 15th. Pool was bicycling alone north on Highway 89 when he was struck by a pick-up truck near Airport Junction. The truck, also northbound, was allegedly traveling at an excessive speed and did not stop at the scene of the accident. Witnesses called the Teton County Sheriff's Office to report the accident and identify the truck; the sheriff's office then notified the park's dispatch center. Rangers immediately responded in a park ambulance, but Pool was pronounced dead at the scene. While several rangers were on scene at the accident, another ranger identified the suspect truck fleeing north towards Moran Junction. It was stopped at Elk Ranch Flats, just south of the junction. The driver, Clinton Duane Hammers, 22, and passenger Wyatt Bodray Ditterline, 20, were arrested. Hammers was charged with suspicion of driving under the influence; Ditterline was charged with suspicion of public intoxication. The two were transported to the Teton County Jail and an investigation is now underway. Additional charges are pending. Pool, a Jackson resident, worked for the park as a seasonal fee collection ranger at the Moose entrance station in 1996. He is survived by his wife, Lee Killian, who also worked seasonally for the park as a dispatcher in 1995, 1996, and 1997. The park community has been especially hard hit by this tragic fatality. |
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CAPTURED, TO BE KILLED News Brief GREAT FALLS, Mont. -- A 22-year old grizzly which has killed more than three dozen cattle over the past fifteen years while eluding capture was finally captured southwest of Augusta, Montana, on Tuesday, after having killed six calves over the weekend. The 650-pound "Falls Creek" male was captured on the LF Ranch, the same outfit the bear had victimized time and again over the past thirteen years. The legendary bear is scheduled to be euthanized this coming Wednesday in Bozeman, Montana. |
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