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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Yellowstone

Yellowstone stories: 7 news summaries

 Yellowstone Fire Grows 

Officials say park still safe to visit despite 10,000-acre blaze

Sep 29, 09 3:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - A wildfire at Yellowstone has consumed almost 10,000 acres of pine forest and closed one of the main roads through the national park. Hundreds of firefighters are working to manage the blaze and keep it away from the park infrastructure. The fire has been burning for at least two... More »

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Yellowstone • fire • national park • Yellowstone National Park • forest fire

(AP) - Yellowstone National Park officials are crediting relatively low gas prices and the park's affordability after a record number of people visited in July. America's first national park hosted more than 900,500 people last month, up more than 11% from July 2008 and 6% from the previous monthly record set... More »

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vacation • Yellowstone • national park • National Park Service • Yellowstone National Park

(AP) - Three California families headed to a retreat for the ultrarich were among the 14 victims of a plane crash in Montana. The three families, with seven children all 9 or younger, made up the 13 passengers; also dead in the crash was the pilot. The families were traveling to the... More »

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families • Montana • children • plane crash • Yellowstone • skiing • ski resort

(Newser) - The recent rash of earthquakes at Yellowstone National Park has geologists intrigued but unworried; that’s not the case with online doomsayers who think the park's volcano is getting ready to blow, the AP reports. About 900 quakes, most undetectable by humans, hit in the week following Christmas. “Something... More »

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evacuation • natural disaster • Yellowstone • volcano • Internet hoax • earthquake • United States Geological Survey

 Swarm of Quakes 
 Jolts Yellowstone 

Scientists closely monitoring unusual rash of shakers

Dec 30, 08 4:02 AM CST
(Newser) - Wary scientists are keeping a close eye on developments in Yellowstone National Park after some 250 small quakes jolted the park within three days, AP reports. Yellowstone is no stranger to seismic activity but experts say the number of the quakes is hghly unusual and could signal something bigger brewing... More »

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Yellowstone • tremor • volcano • volcanic activity • earthquake • seismology

Yellowstone Volcanic Floor Rises

Molten rock causes 3-inch lift, but no eruption imminent

Nov 8, 07 6:34 PM CST
(Newser) - A blob of errant magma gathering 6 miles beneath Yellowstone National Park—the same molten rock that makes Old Faithful spurt and heats the park's famous hot springs—has caused the caldera, or volcanic floor, to rise 3 inches since 2004. Scientists say that though the rate of increase is... More »

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Yellowstone • volcano • national park

Montana's Top 10 Dramatic Spots

Sep 17, 07 2:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - It wasn't a scientific survey.  But the results were dramatic.  The Billings Gazette selected a few Montanans ranging from authors to fly fishermen to geologists to pick the most dramatic natural sites in this most  dramatic state. Here's what they came up with:
  1. Beartooth Mountains
  2. Missouri
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Montana • Rocky Mountains • Galcier Park • Beartooth Mountains • Pryor Mountains • Flathead Lake • Yellowstone • Lews and Clark Caverns • Missouri Breaks • Makoshika State Park • Medicine Rocks State Park • national park

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