Yellowstone Act News Today

For Megan Kate Nelson, keeping the nation’s first national park spectacular remains a heart-felt challenge.

The federal government created this beautiful park. Guess who doesn’t want to admit it?

Celebrating 150 years of Yellowstone with Megan Kate Nelson, author of Saving Yellowstone, Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America. Plus, artist David Rios Ferreira on his new UMFA exhibit, Transcending Time and Space.

The 1872 act that established the nature preserve provoked Lakota assertions of sovereignty

SPOKANE — On a February day, with wind-whipped temperatures falling to 4 below zero, Colville tribal leaders approved an unusual transaction at their offices in Nespelem.

Return the National Parks to the Tribes David Treuer Image above: Glacier National Park, in Montana, as seen from the Blackfeet Reservation, near Duck Lake. This article was published online on April 12, 2021. I. The End Result of Dirty Business In 1851, members of a California state militia called the Mariposa Battalion became the first white men to lay eyes on Yosemite Valley. The group was largely made up of miners. They had been scouring the western slopes of the Sierra when...