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| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 13, 2002 Contact: Clint Wilkes ARE ALL YELLOWSTONE WINTER-USE OPTIONS
BEING CONSIDERED? BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Snowmobiles and snowcoaches: which of these two types of winter machines pollutes less and is quieter? The answers may be somewhat of a surprise, but may illuminate the difficulty of resolving the winter use issue in Yellowstone National Park. First of all, traditional two-stroke snowmobiles are the dirtiest and noisiest of all. By all accounts, the future of the two-stroke snowmobile is no more, as they are absent from the various proposals put forth by the National Park Service in an effort to reduce winter pollution and noise in Yellowstone. However, newer four-stroke snowmobiles are considerably cleaner-burning and quieter than the traditional machines. Indeed, these four-stroke sleds are also quieter than the NPS snowcoaches currently being used in Yellowstone. In addition, based on per-rider averages, they are cleaner-burning than traditional snowcoaches -- maybe. The most optimistic estimates show traditional snowcoaches slightly out-polluting (based on carbon monoxide emissions) newer, four-stroke snowmobiles (based on six riders per snowcoach and 1.2 per snowmobile). However, this estimate is based on the charge (by Southwest Research Institute out of Texas) that the NPS winter use supplemental impact statements understate snowcoach emissions by a full 50 percent. At the least, the number crunching (incomplete and suspect that it may be) does lead to a rather obvious question: should Yellowstone officials upgrade the snowcoaches to newer, cleaner-burning machines? Some approved outside winter transportation providers use modern vans on snow-tracks during the winter months. Snow-track Suburbans could be another option. Assuming Yellowstone's roads are not going to be plowed during the winter months, should the Park Service consider utilizing modern auto-based winter coaches? For that matter, why limit the auto-based winter coach concept to large, truck-based vehicles? Snow-track convertibles, for example, could re-create that open-air winter Yellowstone experience in the absence (or reduction) of snowmobiles. Indeed, perhaps everything should be put on the table in regards to winter transportation in Yellowstone. After all, the future of the world's first and foremost national park is at stake.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 29, 2002 Contact: Clint Wilkes SPRINGTIME IN YELLOWSTONE BOZEMAN, Mont. -- The snows are slowly melting, the days are noticeably longer, and soon Yellowstone will be teeming with baby animals. Yes, spring time has arrived in Yellowstone, and with it comes a rather surreal feeling. Montana Department of Livestock officials are poised just outside Yellowstone's boundaries, eagerly waiting to kill any bison that wander outside the Park (see story below), while inside Yellowstone Park rangers are patrolling to make certain that tourists don't get too close to the bison. Inside Yellowstone, rangers are devoted to protecting the animals and other natural resources. Outside the Park, rangers are forced by the federal government to assist in the slaughter of Yellowstone's bison. Inside Yellowstone, Park officials struggle to pay ranger salaries, repair pot-holed roads and aging sewer systems, all the while facing hundreds of millions in backlogged maintenance with mere $24 million annual budget. Outside the Park the federal government will spend over $4 million this year to allow 2000 head of privately-owned cattle (rather than Yellowstone's bison) to graze on public lands owned by the American people. Near Yellowstone, a herd of elk from the Park are discovered to have infected a few head of cattle with brucellosis. But instead of pointing fingers at the elk, government officials in the region somehow manage to lay the blame at the feet of Yellowstone's bison, despite the fact that Yellowstone's bison have never infected domestic cattle with the disease. Yes, it is spring time in Yellowstone, and rationality seems to have been swept out the door.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 25, 2002 Contact: Clint Wilkes RUSS FINLEY ASSIGNMENT PHOTOGRAPHY AND WEB DESIGN ISLAND PARK, Idaho --
Russ Finley has been photographing America's National Parks full-time for
more than 20 years. Russ received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Brooks
Institute of Photography in 1980. After graduating he spent the first 13
years of his career on the road 365 days photographing National Parks,
Historic Sites and American Scenics. Russ has done more than 50 films of
America's greatest treasures, and is best known for his extensive work with
Finley-Holiday Film Corporation.
Virtually anyone who has visited one of America's major national parks over
the past two decades has seen Russ' work in print or on video.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 11, 2002 Contact: Clint Wilkes THE SILENCE OF THE WEBCAM YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. -- For the past two years, the National Park Service's Old Faithful webcam was a hit with online viewers, as thousands tuned in daily to watch Old Faithful erupt via the webcam. Watching the eruptions online meant seeing a small, grainy, live, still-capture of the eruption. With the camera clicking every thirty seconds, each eruption was typically captured on only one or two stills. But the faithful watched throughout 2000 and 2001, often from their office computers throughout America and the world, perhaps to capture the sense of majesty, freedom and power that Old Faithful conveys, even while many viewers themselves were toiling away at jobs which confined them to a corner cubicle with no windows. Then in December the camera fell silent, victim of an unrelated problem within the larger U.S. Department of Interior. The viewers tuned in nonetheless, hoping that the camera would be back online soon, as had happened often before when the camera fell silent for a few days because of technical problems. However, word leaked out that this outage would be different than the others. No one knew when Old Faithful would again be erupting in offices across America and the world. As the weeks went by, fewer and fewer viewers even checked to see if Old Faithful was live again. And now, two months into the blackout, the problems which led to the outage seem no closer to being resolved, and offices across America and the world in the bleak of winter are no longer being livened up that small, grainy, live, still-capture shot of Old Faithful erupting. Note: Archived shots of Old Faithful eruptions can be viewed by clicking here.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 8, 2002 Contact: Clint Wilkes YELLOWSTONE NET ANNOUNCES AFFILIATE PROGRAM BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Yellowstone Net and
ParkReservations.Com, providers of reservation services in Yellowstone and
other national parks since 1997, announce a new affiliate program. By
placing a link or links to one or more reservation form from the Yellowstone
Net or ParkReservation.com websites, website owners can earn $2 per referred
completed reservation. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 7, 2002 Contact: Clint Wilkes YELLOWSTONE NET NOW BOOKING WOLF TOURS BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Yellowstone Net is now booking wolf tours in Yellowstone National Park. Since their reintroduction into Yellowstone in 1995, wolves have become the most sought-after animal by wildlife watchers. Wolf tours are a great way to learn more about Yellowstone's wolves and to increase your chance of seeing the elusive animals. Wolf tours are available from May to October and you can make your reservations by going to http://www.yellowstone.net/ynet/tour/wolf.htm. For more information, please visit www.yellowstone.net on the Internet. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 26, 2001 Contact: Clint Wilkes YELLOWSTONE NET INTRODUCES $7.95 MONTHLY INTERNET ACCESS BELGRADE, Mont. -- In the wake of December's demise of the free Internet industry, Yellowstone Net (www.yellowstone.net) introduces a new, value-packed Internet Access Service: $7.95 unlimited monthly Internet access with no annoying advertisements. This new Internet service features speedy 56k speeds and is offered in most local phone markets nationwide and in Canada, including many towns in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. The software is available for download via the Yellowstone Net website, or may be obtained on a CD-ROM for a shipping and handling fee. The $7.95 monthly fee is one of the lowest nationwide, yet the service is among the best. In addition to offering nationwide coverage, Yellowstone Net ISP offers 24-hour toll-free technical support via phone as well as anytime email technical support. "We anticipate on signing up a significant number of users who are dissatisfied with the few remaining free ISPs and all their restrictions, and yet who are not willing to pay $20 or even more in monthly Internet access fees," according to Clint Wilkes, Co-Owner of Yellowstone Net. For more information, please visit www.yellowstone.net on the Internet. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 8, 2001 Contact: Clint Wilkes YELLOWSTONE
HELD HOSTAGE BY MILLION-DOLLAR CHEESEBURGERS! BELGRADE, Mont. -- No, this shocking headline is not from the front page of a supermarket tabloid or a sequel to the cult movie The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. It is not a marketing gimmick by some fast food restaurant, nor is it the plot line of an upcoming X-Files episode. And neither is it the punchline of a new comedy routine by Jay Leno nor a scare tactic by Disney to try and reroute vacationers to the Mouse Kingdom. In fact, this rather ludicrous statement is not fiction at all. It is a true story which is taking place right now. And not only that, it is old news: this bizarre hostage situation has been going on for years. Following are the basic facts and figures of this strangest of true stories. Yellowstone National Park is the world's oldest and best-known national park. Yellowstone is renowned for its wildlife and geysers. The two symbols of Yellowstone National Park, known the world over, are Old Faithful Geyser and the Bison (sometimes called Buffalo). Bison, which once numbered 60 million in North America, were hunted to the very brink of extinction in the late 1800s. Yellowstone became a place of refuge for the remaining few. The bison slowly made a comeback from the edge of extinction, and today the world's largest free-ranging herd (some 3000) resides in Yellowstone. In the mid-1800s, there were no domestic cattle in the American West. Today, domestic cattle in America number in the tens of millions and supply our insatiable appetite for the billions of hamburgers we Americans eat monthly (if not weekly). In the American West, where many of these cattle are raised, ranchers lease public lands (that is, land owned by the American people, otherwise known as you and me) on which to graze their cattle, paying the government pennies per head. There are 2000 head of privately-owned cattle grazing on public land in Montana adjacent to Yellowstone National Park. The owners of these cattle pay the government a whopping $13,000 each year (about $6 per head) in grazing fees.Government agencies decided some years ago that Yellowstone's bison are a threat to the 2000 head of cattle which graze on public lands adjacent to Yellowstone National Park. The bison were labeled a threat because some carry the disease "brucellosis," a disease that can cause domestic cattle to abort their fetuses. Oddly enough, however, there is not one shred of evidence -- despite extensive research continuing to this very day -- that wild bison can transmit the disease to domestic cattle. The simple solution to this "problem" would have been to declare the public lands adjacent to Yellowstone National Park off-limits to cattle grazing. However, the government, in its infinite wisdom, decided the 2000 head of cattle, grazing for virtually free on land owned by you and me, were more important than Yellowstone National Park, and indeed needed to be protected from Yellowstone's bison. Of course, the government did not bother to ask you and me, the owners of the land, what our preferences would be for our land. Having decreed that the 2000 head of cattle are more important than Yellowstone National Park, government agencies set out to put our money where their mouth is. In recent years, the government has spent millions of dollars of your money and mine in protecting the 2000 head of cattle from the subversive Yellowstone bison. Much of that money has been used to kill well over 1000 of Yellowstone's bison in recent years. And just last month, government agencies announced that they will be spending $50,000,000 of your money and mine over the next fifteen years to harass and kill those subversive Yellowstone bison. In contrast, Yellowstone National Park's entire budget for all of last year was $24,508,000, far less than was needed to protect Yellowstone's bison and tens of thousands of other large mammals (including the endangered grizzly bear and wolf; not to mention small animals, fish, vegetation, geology, etc.), maintain hundreds of miles of roads and trails and hundreds of facilities, and salary enough rangers to oversee for the 2.2 million acres which is Yellowstone. Only in America does the government spend $50,000,000 of your money and mine to ensure that a few thousand cheeseburgers (enough, perhaps, to supply all the McDonalds restaurants in the Atlanta, Georgia metro area for about fifteen seconds) are given higher priority than Yellowstone National Park, the world's first and foremost national park. Yes, Virginia, the truth is stranger than fiction, and insanity is in abundant supply. back to the topFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 18, 2000 Contact: Clint Wilkes YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK OPENS FOR 2000-2001 WINTER SEASON YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. -- Today marks the start of the winter season in Yellowstone National Park. Roads open at 8 am for all winter recreation, depending on snowfall and driving safety. Popular winter activities include snowmobiling, snow coaching, cross-country skiing and wildlife watching. This winter season is notable in that it will be the last winter with full snowmobile access. Starting next winter, snowmobiles will be placed under new restrictions, leading to a gradual phase out of the machines by the 2003-2004 winter season. The only road open to automobiles during the winter months is the northern entrance via Gardiner, Montana, to the northeastern entrance at Silver Gate and Cooke City, Montana. To make your winter lodging and activity reservations, call toll-free 1-888-255-7710. For more information, please visit www.yellowstone.net on the Internet. back to the topFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 11, 2000 Contact: Clint Wilkes YELLOWSTONE NET ANNOUNCES CHANGE IN FREE INTERNET ACCESS BELGRADE, Mont. -- Yellowstone Net announces today, Monday, December 11, that 1stUp.Com, the partner company which has provided the underlying software and hardware for the Yellowstone Net Free Internet Access service, has now ceased operations. Yellowstone Net had been partnered with 1stUp.Com in providing Free Internet Access since December, 1999, and had signed up over 14,000 users for the Yellowstone Net Free Internet Access service. With the dissolution of 1stUp.Com, Yellowstone Net's relationship with the company has now ceased. 1stUp.Com, which also provided Free Internet Access for AltaVista.Com, is one of several providers of Free Internet Access services that had been struggling to create a successful revenue model. Yellowstone Net will continue to provide Free Internet Service to users through a new ISP partnership with StartFree. Current and new users of Yellowstone Net Free Internet Access will need to download the new software by clicking here. Although the options for free Internet Access are suddenly limited, Yellowstone Net is committed to providing ongoing Internet Access service to the Internet public. For more information, please visit www.yellowstone.net on the Internet. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 10, 2000 Contact: Clint Wilkes ANALYSIS:
THE BAN ON SNOWMOBILES IN YELLOWSTONE BELGRADE, Mont. -- The National Park Service has settled on a snowmobile policy which will lead to the banning of the machines from Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park by 2004. The fallout will be considerable. The ban was brought about by an EPA ruling that the National Park Service was not giving government-mandated protection to Yellowstone National Park. National Park areas, classified as Class I areas, are mandated by federal law and executive order to receive the highest level of environmental protection. Emissions from snowmobiles violate this mandate, according to the EPA. Environmentalists are praising the decision, whereas some business owners in West Yellowstone, Montana, and Cody, Wyoming, fear that the policy will result in a severe loss of business during the winter months. The National Park Service, in the meantime, is focusing on further developing snowcoach access into Yellowstone during the winter months. When the dust settles, who will win and who will lose? Yellowstone National Park itself will certainly win with the snowmobile ban, as the Park will no longer be plagued by excessive pollution and noise. The long-term condition of some gateway communities, on the other hand, is uncertain. Will they adapt to the changes, or will the changes irrevocably harm their economies? Only time will tell, but decisions made during the next few months and years will ultimately answer the question. And what about the winter visitor? Will the snowcoach experience ever be able to take the place of the feeling of freedom and openness that is the essence of riding a snowmobile through Yellowstone? For some, the answer will be no. For others, the ban may present an added opportunity to explore Yellowstone on snowshoes and crosscountry skies in the quietness of winter. For more information, please visit www.yellowstone.net on the Internet. back to the topFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 6, 2000 Contact: Clint Wilkes YELLOWSTONE NET RECEIVES HOMEPAGE REDESIGN BELGRADE, Mont. -- The critically-acclaimed and popular Yellowstone Net website (www.yellowstone.net) has received a complete homepage redesign by award-winning photographer Russ Finley. Russ Finley is author of numerous Yellowstone and other national park videos, including his latest, Winter in Yellowstone. Russ' videos and photographs are known worldwide and have been featured in numerous television specials, magazines, calendars, post cards, and other media. Russ' website features much of his stock photography as well as many video clips. Yellowstone Net's newly designed homepage reflects the evolution of video and audio on the Internet. Russ' extensive picture and video galleries complement the comprehensive information content of the site. Some of the more popular site content includes the Yellowstone Net Newspaper, reservation information and services, maps and weather. In addition to photos, videos and information content, Yellowstone Net offers reservations services for the entire Yellowstone region via one toll-free phone number, as well as Montana real estate listings. Yellowstone Net also features free Internet access and free email available to the Internet public. The company has garnered more than 10,000 ISP customers since introducing ISP services nine months ago. The newly redesigned homepage reflects Yellowstone Net's commitment to providing comprehensive and reliable information to visitors of America's first national park. For more information, please visit www.yellowstone.net on the Internet. back to the topFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 15, 2000 Contact: Clint Wilkes HIGH-TECH FIRM BRINGING THE FUTURE TO MONTANA REAL ESTATE BELGRADE, Mont. -- Montana has long been a popular location in which to live, work and recreate. For decades, Montana real estate has been bought and sold predominantly through traditional real estate agencies. Although Montana will continue to be a popular place to buy real estate, big changes are on the way for real estate sales in Montana. Based in Belgrade, the hi-tech firm Yellowstone Net Company (www.yellowstone.net) recently announced the founding of its real estate subsidiary, Yellowstone Net Realty. Founded in 1997, Yellowstone Net Company quickly established the world's most popular commercial Yellowstone website, which also ranks among the top 1% of all websites in the world. Initially, the company used its powerful Internet presence to make reservations for clients visiting Yellowstone and other national parks. In 1999, Yellowstone Net Company announced that it was offering free unlimited e-mail and Internet access in more than 90% of the U.S. and Canada. Now, the rapidly growing Montana-based company has announced plans to sell real estate through its world-renowned website. With a highly targeted audience of more than 1 million potential buyers annually from across the country and around the globe, Yellowstone Net will change the way real estate is bought and sold in Montana. According to Clint Wilkes, CEO of Yellowstone Net Company, Montana will experience a technological revolution in the real estate industry. "Through advances in technology and the Internet, property owners now have an opportunity to reach potential buyers from around the globe in a manner more effective than ever before," Wilkes said. "By utilizing the Internet, we have increased efficiency while reducing overhead. This allows us to pass the savings on to the customer by listing properties at a low 3% listing fee, which is only half of the standard 6% charged by most traditional area real estate agencies." Yellowstone Net Realty will offer an interactive map for its more than 1 million clients to use in navigating through the real estate Internet site. Once potential buyers choose a location on the map, they will receive a list of properties for sale in the selected location. By choosing a specific property, buyers can view extensive information and color photos of the listed property right on their personal computer. Although Wilkes acknowledges that many Montana-based companies have an Internet website, he points out that no other company even comes close to Yellowstone Net's highly targeted audience. "By combining a huge customer base with the power of the Internet, Yellowstone Net is in a position to significantly impact the Montana economy by bringing progressive changes to the state's real estate industry," Wilkes said.Montana has experienced many economical changes due to the Internet, and another change is now on the horizon. Yellowstone Net Realty will certainly make an impact as it brings more than 1 million potential real estate buyers to Montana. For more information, please visit www.yellowstone.net on the Internet. back to the topFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 24, 2000 Contact: Clint Wilkes YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK OPEN FOR 2000 SEASON! YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. -- Yellowstone National Park is now open for the 2000 season. This past weekend, the West entrance and the north route to Old Faithful was opened to automobile traffic. During the course of the next month, many of Yellowstone's other roads will also be opening. The coming weeks are a special time in Yellowstone, as many of the Park's mammal's will be giving birth to their newborn. Visitors in the month of May will have an excellent opportunity to see newborn bison and elk in particular. However, visitors should be cautious when driving through the Park, as snowy roads will remain a concern throughout the spring. In addition, some of the Park's trails will remain under snow for some weeks to come, and all visitor services will not be fully operational until the month of June. Yellowstone National Park is famous worldwide for its many geysers, including Old Faithful, as well as its wildlife. Yellowstone is a popular summer vacation destination, and visitors are encouraged to make lodging and activity reservations early. Activities in and near Yellowstone include geyser gazing, wildlife watching, photography, hiking, horseback riding and rafting. Lodging and activity reservations may be made by calling toll-free 1-888-255-7710. For more information about Yellowstone National Park, visit www.yellowstone.net on the Internet. back to the topFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 8, 1999 Contact: Clint Wilkes YELLOWSTONE NET TO PROVIDE FREE INTERNET ACCESS Joins AltaVista in offering free service through partnership with 1stUp.com BELGRADE, Mont. -- Yellowstone Net Company, the nation’s leading National Park reservations website, today announced that it now offers free Internet service through a partnership with 1stUp.com Corporation, the industry leader in ad-supported Internet access solutions and a majority-owned operating company of CMGI, Inc. Yellowstone Net is the first company in the Travel Industry to offer completely free, unlimited web access virtually anywhere in the U.S. or Canada. Yellowstone Net’s Free Internet Access application is available to current and future customers and website users. The small, 700k application will be packaged individually on a floppy disk or bundled on Yellowstone Net’s upcoming National Parks CD-ROM. The Internet access application also is immediately available to consumers through an easy download from the Yellowstone Net website at www.yellowstone.net. Yellowstone Net’s Free Internet Access service is powered by patent-pending technology from 1stUp.com. 1stUp.com's web surfing application delivers consumers unlimited free Internet access, in exchange for keeping a compact, movable navigation bar open during the online session. This navigation bar features a rotating banner advertisement as well as convenient web tools and a constant link to the Yellowstone Net site, which features extensive information and reservation services for the Yellowstone National Park region and other national parks. The Yellowstone Net Free Internet Access service is accessible through any Windows-based computer. "Yellowstone Net’s Free Internet Access service will lead the Travel Industry in providing practical, Internet-exclusive, complimentary services for the American traveler and general public in the coming 21st century," said Clint Wilkes, Co-Owner of the Yellowstone Net Company. "The Free Internet Access service will add greater depth to our existing services, which include central lodging and activity reservation services, free email, free personal websites, free news publications, free online video tours of popular national parks, an extensive collection of information about Yellowstone National Park, an online shopping mall, and the award-winning photography of national park photographer Russ Finley. 1stUp.com’s free access solution is an important innovation that reflects our strong commitment to provide a wide range of free services to our customers in particular, and to all Internet users in general." 1stUp.com's technology also powers the highly acclaimed AltaVista Free Access offering. In just three months of offering Free Access, AltaVista has garnered over 800,000 subscribers, quickly becoming the seventh largest Internet service provider in the country. "Our partnership with Yellowstone Net shows how implementing 1stUp.com's solution immediately helps put businesses on the proper trajectory to reach their online goals," said Jonah Steinhart, executive vice president of marketing for 1stUp.com. "Yellowstone Net has established a large, loyal base of travelers and outdoor enthusiasts. Now, through this compelling free service, Yellowstone Net is able to deliver the finest in ad-supported Internet access technologies to both present and future customers." About Yellowstone Net Yellowstone Net Company, founded in 1997, is the leading provider of central reservation services in the Yellowstone National Park region and is currently expanding its services to other major national park regions. Yellowstone Net’s website (www.yellowstone.net) provides free news publications, free email, free personal websites, free online video tours of popular national parks, an extensive collection of information about Yellowstone National Park, an online shopping mall, and the award-winning photography of national parks photographer Russ Finley. For more information, go to www.yellowstone.net. About 1stUp.com 1stUp.com, a majority-owned operating company of CMGI, Inc. (Nasdaq: CMGI), is the market leader in providing consumer-oriented businesses with ad-supported Internet access solutions. 1stUp.com provides patent-pending technology that enables its partners to brand, market and distribute leading edge, cost-effective Internet services to their customers. The 1stUp.com solution enables consumers to receive unlimited, free Internet access in exchange for keeping a compact, sponsor-oriented navigation bar on their computer screen. Multiple leading ISPs support 1stUp.com’s premium network, which delivers free, reliable Internet access to over 90 percent of the U.S. and Canada. Aggregating the end-user bases of AltaVista and other partners, 1stup.com has the buying power of multiple brands and is able to pass along the benefits of optimal connectivity costs and advertising revenues to its partners. For more information, go to www.1stup.com. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 27, 1999 Contact: Clint Wilkes VACATION IN YELLOWSTONE THIS WINTER BELGRADE, Mont. -- Most people know that Yellowstone National Park is a great summer destination. Less known, however, is that fact that Yellowstone is just as exciting in the winter months. Yellowstone Net (www.yellowstone.net) provides visitors with all the tools they need to plan a vacation in Yellowstone this winter: online information about lodging, snowcoach tours, cross-country skiing, snowmobile rentals, airport pickup and a toll-free central reservations phone number staffed by operators who personally know the Yellowstone region. Yellowstone is known for its abundance of free-roaming wildlife and its many geysers. Winter visitors are afforded breathtaking views of wildlife and geysers during the winter months. In addition, there are hundreds of miles of unrestricted snowmobile trails just outside of Yellowstone's West entrance. Now is the time for visitors to plan their winter vacations. The season runs from mid-December through mid-March. Lodging is available within the Park, as well as just outside the Park in West Yellowstone and Gardiner, Montana. Yellowstone Net can provide visitors with all their reservation needs. About the Yellowstone Net Company: Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Belgrade, Montana, the Yellowstone Net Company owns the leading Yellowstone Internet website, providing extensive information and central reservation services for the Yellowstone region. Critically-acclaimed National Parks photographer Russ Finley is the company's official photographer. For more information about Yellowstone National Park, visit www.yellowstone.net on the Internet. back to the top |
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