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Prior to the National Park Service assuming control of the park in 1916, the U.S. Army killed 14 wolves during their tenure (1886–1916), most in the years 1914–15. In 1940, Adolph Murie, a noted wildlife biologist published his Fauna Series No. 4— Fauna of the National Parks of the United States-Ecology of the Coyote in the Yellowstone National Park.
Relief map of Yellowstone showing location of plateaus. There are nine named plateaus in Yellowstone National Park. These plateaus are part of the much larger Yellowstone Plateau and dominate areas in the park south and west of the Gallatin and Absaroka mountain ranges.
Yellowstone Summer Village Council: Area (2021) • Land: 0.28 km 2 (0.11 sq mi) Population
Norris Geyser Basin, Madison Junction, and Fishing Bridge, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming Coordinates 44°33′47″N 110°22′40″W / 44.563028°N 110.377694°W / 44.563028; -110.
View from the front of the Lake Hotel, showing the iconic porticoes Robert Reamer, the man who gave the Lake Hotel its iconic Neo-Classical look. The initial construction of the Lake Hotel was tumultuous, in 1886 a lease was given to the Yellowstone Park Association (YPA) for the construction of 4 different hotels on 4 different sites, one of those being the Lake Hotel.
The animals in the Henry Mountains bison herd are of the plains bison subspecies (Bison bison bison). Yellowstone National Park may be the only location in the United States where free-ranging bison were never exterminated since they continued to exist in the wild and were not re-introduced as has been done in most other bison herd areas.
The Yellowstone River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 692 miles (1,114 km) long, in the Western United States.Considered the principal tributary of upper Missouri, via its own tributaries it drains an area with headwaters across the mountains and high plains of southern Montana and northern Wyoming, and stretching east from the Rocky Mountains in the vicinity of Yellowstone ...
The first bridge on this site was built in 1903. Chittenden describes the process in his 1915 history of Yellowstone: The Arch Bridge over the Yellowstone. Until 1903 there was no bridge across the Yellowstone in the vicinity of the Falls and the right bank of the Grand Canyon was practically inaccessible to the public.