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    Yellowstone

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Stay Connected
Yellowstone National Park provides several ways for you to stay connected to what is happening in the park. In addition to our extensive Web site, we routinely update travel and road conditions and closures, fire and weather information and more. Twitter posts and our news releases, including RSS feeds, are a great way to hear about it first.

RSS News Feed
To have new releases sent directly to your browser as soon as we add them to our Web site, subscribe to our RSS News Feed from our News Releases page.

Twitter
Follow @yellowstonenps on Twitter and receive tweets from us to your desktop, smart phone or other hand-held device. It's a great way to stay in touch while traveling. We also often tweet about events that happen "right now," including both photographs and video.

Facebook
Yellowstone has an official government Facebook page at www.facebook.com/YellowstoneNPS.

Photographs
Do you need a photograph for your news story, school project or other media use? Browse our extensive library of free, public domain images within Yellowstone's Photo Collection or check us out on Flickr at www.flickr.com/photos/YellowstoneNPS. Please credit the appropriate photographer and the National Park Service.

Video
Yellowstone has an extensive video collection available from our Photos and Multimedia page, as on on our YouTube site at www.youtube.com/YellowstoneNPS.

Contact Us
For more information, contact the Yellowstone National Park Public Affairs Office between 8:00 a.m and 5:00 p.m. (MT) weekdays, except for holidays, at (307) 344-2015 or by email at Yell_Public_Affairs@nps.gov.

SmartPhone users: click here for a QR code to store our Public Affairs contact info.

 

More Resource
Archived news releases
Yellowstone Fact Sheet
Yellowstone Volcano Eruption Questions @ Answers
Current Conditions
Road Construction Delays and Seasonal Closures
Current Fire Season Activity


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Did You Know?

Dog Hooked to Travois for Transporting Goods.

Some groups of Shoshone Indians, who adapted to a mountain existence, chose not to acquire the horse. These included the Sheep Eaters, or Tukudika, who used dogs to transport food, hides, and other provisions. The Sheep Eaters lived in many locations in Yellowstone.