John Cataldo was named Yellowstone National Park’s Fire Management Officer (FMO) earlier this month.

Yellowstone National Park rangers and state and federal transportation officials will conduct safety evaluations of commercial vehicles and operators traveling in the park again this summer.

Yellowstone National Park is off to a strong start to the 2013 visitor year. There were 293,250 recreational visitors to Yellowstone in May and a total of 392,222 for the first five months of 2013.

Yellowstone National Park has been selected to receive a 2013 “Ticket to Ride” grant from the National Park Foundation (NPF), the official charity of America’s national parks, for Yellowstone’s Connecting Native American Youth to Yellowstone program.

A plan to reconstruct Isa Lake Bridge located at Craig Pass on the Continental Divide has been approved.

Biologists with the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST) will be conducting scientific grizzly bear research operations in Yellowstone National Park from June 3 through July 15.

Scientists and managers are getting together in early June to review what we know and don’t know about the geothermal system in the Old Faithful area.

Yellowstone National Park has updated its fishing regulations for the season which begins on Saturday, May 25.

The Beartooth Highway, the scenic high elevation portion of US-212 linking Red Lodge, Montana, with the communities of Cooke City and Silver Gate, Montana, and the northeast entrance to Yellowstone National Park, is scheduled to open for the season at 9:00 a.m. Friday morning, May 24.

In order to more thoroughly protect the waters of Yellowstone National Park, all motorized and non-motorized watercraft entering the park’s lakes must first pass an Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) inspection.