Five Republican senators are asking Democratic committee heads to hold hearings on a bill that has been tied up in committees since April. The bill would remove one group of grizzly bears from listing under the Endangered Species Act. That group is the population in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the area that includes and surrounds…
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Yellowstone Shores Up Employee Housing—A Good Thing, Says PERC
Yellowstone National Park is giving high priority to upgrading employee housing. That is proving a good strategy, writes Shawn Regan of PERC in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. It is essential for keeping quality employees who are often alone or nearly alone in isolated parts of the 2.2 million-acre park. When he became Yellowstone’s superintendent in…