Yellowstone opens for winter travel, ends wildlife program
A couple walks along the boardwalk in the Norris Geyser Basin on Monday evening, October 9, in Yellowstone National Park. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)
BILLINGS (AP) — Yellowstone National Park opened its roads to oversnow vehicles for the winter season on Wednesday after suspending a wildlife monitoring program that found snowmobiles and other such machines were having minimal effects on wildlife.
The monitoring program for snowmobiles and larger, multi-passenger snow coaches began when Yellowstone adopted a 2012 plan that put caps on the number of winter vehicles allowed in the park...
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