The Yellowstone
Net Newspaper Friday November 7, 1997 Vol. 1 No. 13 |
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The Billings Gazette reports that Yellowstone Superintendent Michael Finley has officially declined to include the state of Wyoming and interested counties in the Yellowstone region in an environmental study of the impact on snowmobiling in Yellowstone. Finley declared that input from the state of Wyoming and nearby counties have no legal jurisdication over the Park in concern with the proposed impact study, according to the guidelines of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). County officials were not surprised, only dismayed. Tension has existed between Park officials and some nearby communities since the proposed snowmobile impact study was announced over a month ago. Park officials did not rule out the possibility of representatives of nearby counties and the state of Wyoming being involved in the study at a later stage. ----------------- Lodging reservations for accommodations inside Yellowstone Park for the summer of 1998 are being made at a very brisk pace, reports Genie Ladd from Travel @ Yellowstone Net. "For some dates, the Park is already booked solid," says Ladd. "However, there are numerous hotels, lodges and guest ranches just outside the Park." If you are planning a trip to Yellowstone in the summer of 1998, now is not too early to make your reservations. Call Genie Ladd at 406-585-4230 today, or email her at travel@yellowstone.net. Genie can also book reservations for all other national parks. |
Jim's love of history goes back to when he was "a small boy." On his first visit to Yellowstone many years later, a tour bus driver, relating stories about early days of the Park, sparked Jim's interest in Yellowstone's history. The interest grew, and later on during the winter of 1996 Jim spent much time collecting resources from all over the country in order to write his thesis. Jim completed the thesis, but the exercise did not end his interest in Yellowstone history. Since that time he has rewritten his thesis and has published it on the internet. The focus of Jim's paper on the early history of Yellowstone is people. In his own words, his work seeks to "present Yellowstone's early history in such a way that the focus is upon individual decisions." Jim's paper points out that Yellowstone exists not because of a chance happening, but because certain people made key choices. "People had to act" in order for Yellowstone to be set aside for all generations. Jim acknowledges that the reader will not find any original material in his paper, but hopes that readers will come to a better understanding of how a number or individual decisions were woven together in a fabric that led to the formation of Yellowstone National Park. To read Jim Macdonald's paper on the early history of Yellowstone, click here. Jim's web site also has many more Yellowstone history resources.
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