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DENVER, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Teton Energy Corporation ("Teton" or the "Company") announced today that Dominic Bazile has been appointed to Teton's Board of Directors to serve until standing for election at Teton's annual meeting to be held in May 2009. Dominic Bazile joined Teton in February 2007 as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. During the past year and a half with Teton, Mr. Bazile has been instrumental in assembling an approximate 23,000 acre...
Fewer wolves may mean fewer pronghorn in greater YellowstoneAs western states debate removing the gray wolf from protection under the Endangered Species Act, a new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society cautions that doing so may result in an unintended decline in another species: the pronghorn, a uniquely North American animal that resembles an African antelope.The study, appearing in the latest issue of the journal Ecology, says that fewer wolves mean more coyotes, which can prey...
Study finds coyote densities more than 30 percent lower in wolf territoryNEW YORKÂ -- While the wily coyote reigns as top dog in much of the country, it leads a nervous existence wherever it coexists with its larger relative, the wolf, according to a new study from the Wildlife Conservation Society. In fact, coyote densities are more than 30 percent lower in areas that they share with wolves. The paper, which appears in the most recent edition of the Journal of Animal Ecology, details the...
By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global warming puts 12 of the most famous U.S. national parks at risk, environmentalists said on Tuesday, conjuring up visions of Glacier National Park without glaciers and Yellowstone Park without grizzly bears. All 12 parks are located in the American West, where temperatures have risen twice as fast as in the rest of the United States over the last 50 years, said Theo Spencer of the Natural Resources Defense Council. "Rising temperatures,...
By Deborah ZabarenkoWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global warming puts 12 of the most famous U.S. national parks at risk, environmentalists said on Tuesday, conjuring up visions of Glacier National Park without glaciers and Yellowstone Park without grizzly bears.All 12 parks are located in the American West, where temperatures have risen twice as fast as in the rest of the United States over the last 50 years, said Theo Spencer of the Natural Resources Defense Council."Rising temperatures,...
BILLINGS, Mont. -- More than 250 scientists and researchers have signed a letter protesting a federal proposal to no longer protect grizzly bears in the Yellowstone area under the Endangered Species Act. The letter, dated Monday, was addressed to Chris Servheen, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's grizzly bear recovery coordinator. Servheen has said he expects a final decision on the proposal by year's end or early next year. Among those signing the letter were primatologist Jane Goodall and...
BILLINGS, Mont. -- Roads groomed for snowmobiles and snowcoaches in Yellowstone National Park are not the key factor influencing bison distribution and numbers in the park, a researcher said Friday. "The roads very definitely make it easier for bison to move along the landscape, but we didn't see an overall effect on distribution or population increases," said Cormack Gates, director of the Environmental Science Program in the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of...
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Yellowstone National Park is located in the United States. The majority of the park is located in Wyoming, but there are smaller areas of the park in Idaho and Montana. It is thought that this area was the first to be established as a national park in the entire world. The area was home to Native Americans for about 11,000 years, but was not well known to Americans until the 1860’s, when the first organized explorations were conducted there. The Lewis and Clark Expedition in the 19th...
Grand Teton National Park is located in northwestern Wyoming, only ten miles away from Yellowstone National Park, and holds about 310,000 acres of protected land. It is surrounded by several National Forests. These three areas encompass 18,000,000 million acres of pristine temperate ecosystem. The park holds Teton Range, a range of mountains that stretches over forty miles, and Jackson Hole, a valley that comprises most of the parks northernmost land. Early inhabitants of the Grand Teton...
