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Yellowstone National Park News Releases
News releases from Yellowstone National Park.
Spring Plowing Underway
Posted: March 8th, 2010
As roads close to snowmobile and snowcoach travel for the season, plow crews have started work clearing Yellowstone’s roads for automobile travel.
Scoping for New Winter Use Plan Ends March 30
Posted: March 3rd, 2010
Informational meetings and a public comment period for a new Yellowstone Winter Use Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) began January 29, and continues through March 30. Individuals, groups, and agencies have until the end of the month to submit written comments on the purpose, need and objectives, as well as the issues and alternatives they would like to be considered in the new plan.
Winter Season Drawing to a Close
Posted: March 2nd, 2010
Yellowstone’s winter oversnow travel season is winding down. Limited, managed, snowmobile and snowcoach travel on the park's interior roads is scheduled to end by Monday evening, March 15.
Jackson Hole News & Guide
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This Week in the News and Guide
Posted: March 10th, 2010
NewWest.net - Jackson Hole, WY
New West is a next-generation media company dedicated to the culture, economy, politics, environment and lifestyle of the Rocky Mountain West. Our core mission is to serve the Rockies with innovative, participatory journalism and to promote conversation that helps us understand and make the most of the dramatic changes sweeping our region.
Temple Grandin's Life Story Hits the Small Screen
Posted: February 10th, 2010
The movie "Temple Grandin," about the life of Temple Grandin, the Colorado writer, animal expert, and advocate for people with autism, premiered on HBO this weekend. The movie stars Claire Danes, a casting choice that Grandin told Erin O'Toole of KUNC she was "absolutely delighted" with. Grandin spoke with O'Toole as she was in the midst of traveling around the country to promote the film.
Grandin said of Danes, "She put this wig on and dressed up in my clothes and became me." Grandin is pleased with the movie. "I love the way the movie shows how my mind works," she said. (I reviewed Grandin's most recent book, Animals Make Us Human, last year.)
• One of my favorite writers, Edward P. Jones, is the "eminent writer in residence" at the University of Wyoming in Laramie this semester. I saw on the Wyoming Arts Blog that Jones will read and sign his books Thursday, Feb. 18, at 5 p.m. in the University Wyoming Union ballroom. If you haven't checked out Jones' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Known World or his two masterful story collections, do yourself a favor and get reading!
Also in the Roundup: Edward P. Jones and Alyson Hagy read in Laramie, the Patagonia Public Library throws its annual Writers' Round-up, Dave Cullen is in the running for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, New Mexico honors its writers, and Denver teens pick their favorite book of the year.
Where Have All the Ski Bums Gone?
Posted: February 8th, 2010
They're not on the ski slopes. They're not in the bars. Have all the ski bums left Big Sky?
"A lot of guys are skiing backcountry now because it's free," said John the physical therapist. "Also, a lot of them worked construction to support their skiing habits. Those jobs don't exist any more."
A footnote to the current recession is its effect on Big Sky's ski bum culture--girls and guys who live to ski and will work for ski passes or at part-time jobs that permit time off on powder days.
Things That Go Bump in Wyoming: Alyson Hagy's "Ghosts of Wyoming"
Posted: February 1st, 2010
Ghosts of Wyoming
By Alyson Hagy
Graywolf Press, 192 pages, $15
Some places feel more haunted than others. As Alyson Hagy explores in her new collection of short stories, Ghosts of Wyoming, Wyoming is one of those places where the past seems to overlap with the present, where the rough frontier that she writes of in "The Sin Eaters," set in 1889, seems to have plenty in common with the oil rig-riddled Wyoming of today, in which Hagy sets the story "Oil & Gas." Throughout many of the stories, details about the Arapaho and other tribes that settled the area first set a somber tone underneath the main narrative. Some of these stories touch on issues that are also raised in the work of Annie Proulx, Alexandra Fuller, and other contemporary Wyoming writers, but as with all good fiction, Hagy isn't trying to convey a message. She's just telling some first-rate ghost stories.
Only one of the eight stories, "Superstitions of the Indians," is a ghost story in the classic sense, but they all have ghosts in them in the form of people who have died or characters haunted by the past. One of the best stories is the lead-off, "Border," which conceals its ghost until the very end in an effective twist that works as such endings should, not as a "gotcha!" moment but as a revelation that makes sense of and lends gravity to all the prior events. In "Border," a young man hitchhiking his way out of Wyoming, aiming for Denver or beyond, pauses in his journey to steal a collie pup in Meeker, Colo.
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