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Yellowstone

[ yel-oh-stohn ]

noun

  1. a river flowing from NW Wyoming through Yellowstone Lake and NE through Montana into the Missouri River in W North Dakota. 671 miles (1,080 km) long.


Yellowstone

/ ˈjɛləʊˌstəʊn /

noun

  1. a river rising in N Wyoming and flowing north through Yellowstone National Park, then east to the Missouri. Length: 1080 km (671 miles)


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According to the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce, both Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks—both within a quick drive from of Jackson—had about 50% more visitors in October of 2020 than they did for the same month in 2019.

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Yellowstone saw more visitors in July 2020 than it did the previous year.

Probably the biggest hazard in Yellowstone is people going off trail and falling in the boiling water.

Lone Star Geyser in Yellowstone erupts up to 45 feet high every three hours or so.

MacGregor has asked to go snowshoeing during her visit, as well as for transportation to be arranged between Yellowstone and Jackson Hole Airport.

Regional newspapers variously report 500 or 741 grizzlies live in and around Yellowstone.

There are as many as 600 or 700 grizzlies in the greater Yellowstone area.

On November 4, the Fort Hall Shoshone-Bannock tribes announced their opposition to Yellowstone delisting.

The Oklahoma Kiowa have joined this warpath; the Yellowstone is their ancestral homeland.

The battle between conservation groups and FWS over the fate of the Yellowstone grizzly is about to repeat.

After trapping a brief while on the Yellowstone, they worked their way to the head waters of the Missouri.

Still later, the majority of the trappers went into winter quarters on the Yellowstone.

As the weather was fine the party traveled rapidly, and by April 26th reached the mouth of the Yellowstone.

The crowning achievement of this remarkable journey was the discovery and traversing of the Yellowstone wonderland.

At any rate, the later years and the burial-place of the first discoverer of the Yellowstone National Park are unknown.

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