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Highs in the 30s, Lows in the 10's Activist Group Buffalo Nations Continues Campaign by BRUCE T. GOURLEY BOZEMAN, Mont. (YNET) -- The Billings Gazette reports that three members of the bison activist group Buffalo Nations have each been fined $70 and sentenced to a six-month jail sentence with all but one day suspended. The three sentenced are Daniel B. Howells, Adam Horowitz and Roger Vincent. The charges were minor and included obstructing a police officer and criminal trespass on private property. The charges were in relation to the activists' attempts to keep the Montana Department of Livestock from killing Yellowstone bison which wandered out of the Park in the West Yellowstone area. Buffalo Nations, formed last year, maintains a presence in both West Yellowstone and Gardiner, Montana. They are actively seeking to prevent the further killing of Yellowstone's bison this winter. Nearly 1100 bison last winter were killed in response to the Montana cattle industry's fear of the disease brucellosis which some of Yellowstone's bison carry. A total of eleven bison have been killed by the DOL thus far this winter. Volunteers from around the nation have come to West Yellowstone to help prevent further slaughter of Yellowstone's bison. Earlier this week, one Buffalo Nations' volunteer, seeking to thwart Department of Livestock efforts to haze bison down highway 191 and into a capture facility, was "bumped" twice by a DOL vehicle as he attempted to haze the buffalo off the road and into the woods. No injuries were reported. Buffalo Nations volunteers have been vocal in their support of Yellowstone's bison as well as in their denouncement of the Montana Department of Livestock's efforts to kill bison which leave the Park.
Snowfall in Yellowstone Region Below Last Year by BRUCE T. GOURLEY YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. (YNET) -- El Nino, the Pacific Ocean warming phenomenon which has been in effect for some months now, has made a noticeable impact this winter upon much of the United States, including the Rocky Mountain West and the Yellowstone region. The snows this winter came late to the Yellowstone region. Substantial snowfall finally arrived in early January, much to the relief of the gateway communities. However, the past two weeks have witnessed above average temperatures and less than desired snowfall for winter recreationists.This winter's lower than normal (thus far) snowfall is in stark contrast to last winter, when far more than normal snowfall took place in Yellowstone and the surrounding area, and some Montana and Wyoming communities, including Billings, Montana, received record snowfalls. The huge snowpack last winter led to a wet, prolonged spring in Yellowstone, as well as high river and stream levels both within and without the Park. Many fisherman in the Yellowstone region reported that the high water levels were to blame for less than optimal fishing conditions.
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Believed by many to be part of the underground outflow of Mammoth Hot Springs, this famous hot steam has probably never been hot enough to deserve its official name. The steam emerges from beneath a travertine ledge and rushes for only 145 yards before emptying into the Gardner River. At 6 to 9 feet wide and about 2 feet deep, Boiling River is the largest discharging hot spring in the Park. Park tour operator G. L. Henderson named the hot stream between 1883 and 1885. Henderson had a vivid imagination, and his guidebooks played the stream up as the spot where a person could catch a trout and cook in on the hook. Boiling River had been described several years earlier. Ascending the Gardner River on their way to Mammoth Hot Springs, the members of the 1871 Hayden party discovered this stream and other nearby hot springs: " ... from underneath this crust a stream poured a volume of water into the river, six feet wide and two feet deep, with a temperature of 130 degrees. A little further up the stream were a number of hot springs of about the same temperature, with nearly circular basins six to ten feet in diameter and two to four feet deep. Around them had already gathered a number of invalids, who were living in tents, and their praises were enthusiastic in favor of the sanitary effects of the springs. Some of them were used for drinking and others for bathing purposes (Scribner's Monthly, February 1872, p.389)." This rude encampment of invalids was called "Chestnutville" for its founder, a "Colonel Chestnut" of Bozeman. Matthew McGuirk later claimed and "improved" the springs, and by March 1872 he had built a house, a fence, a ditch, and a barn at the site. McGuirk operated his springs, which he called McGuirk's Medicinal Springs," for the treatment of rheumatism until 1874, when Park Superintendent N. P. Langford made him leave the Park. In 1914, years after Henderson had named the stream Boiling River, geologist Arnold Hague lamented the use of the name. Hague preferred the name "Hot River," but the USBGN approved the name Boiling River in 1930.
Yellowstone Net in Seattle by BRUCE T. GOURLEY This is the sixth in an ongoing series about Editor & Publishers Interactive Newspaper Conference currently being held in Seattle. Yellowstone Net Co-Owner Clint Wilkes spoke at the Conference earlier this week. SEATTLE, Wash. (YNET) -- The 9th Annual Interactive Newspaper Conference, sponsored by Editor & Publisher, has been in progress here since Wednesday. Numerous sessions have covered (or will be covering) all aspects of online newspapers, from advertising to marketing to new technologies. Yellowstone Net Co-Owner Clint Wilkes was one of six marketing experts to address the Conference. Editor and Publisher noted: "The six speakers at the four-hour Marketing and Promotion session were executives of some of the industry's most successful newspaper Web sites. In general, they said, newspapers are not doing a good job in reaching the broad audience of Web surfers who they must attract in order to make their sites financially successful." According to some surveys, news content is one of the primary reasons people use the internet. Nonetheless, even the large news dailies are finding online success to be elusive.
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HOUSTON CHRONICLE:
Each Friday this winter we will feature the story behind a
"Yellowstone Landmark." Written by NPS Yellowstone Historian Lee
Whittlesey, the stories are from his book entitled Yellowstone Place Names.
