Kylie Mohr
Correspondent at High Country News
Environmental Journalist at Freelance
Contributing National Parks Editor, Big Sky Country at SFGate
Correspondent @highcountrynews & freelance journalist covering wildfire, wildlife, wild places. Words @NatGeo @TheAtlantic @outsidemagazine @voxdotcom @grist ++
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1 week ago |
sacbee.com | Kylie Mohr
May 7-A bison attacked a tourist earlier this week in Yellowstone National Park after the man got too close. The incident occurred on May 4 in the Lake Village area of the park near popular attractions such as Yellowstone Lake and the Old Faithful geyser. The 47-year-old man from Cape Coral, Florida, was gored by a bison "after he approached it too closely," according to a news release from Yellowstone National Park.
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1 week ago |
sfgate.com | Kylie Mohr
The incident occurred on May 4 in the Lake Village area of the park near popular attractions such as Yellowstone Lake and the Old Faithful geyser. The 47-year-old man from Cape Coral, Florida, was gored by a bison “after he approached it too closely,” according to a news release from Yellowstone National Park. Bison have short, curved horns with a sharp point, and “goring” refers to a bison’s horns puncturing a person’s skin, muscle or organs.
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1 week ago |
sfgate.com | Kylie Mohr
According to a comparison of the park service workforce to the U.S. population, Hispanic, Black, Asian and multiracial people are underrepresented in the agency. Nearly 80% of the park’s superintendents are white, and more than 84% of the rangers are white, according to data obtained by E&E News in 2020. Former National Park Service Academy member manager Deja Charles-Tomkins said the park service canceled the program in February for a variety of reasons.
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1 week ago |
sacbee.com | Kylie Mohr
May 2-The National Park Service would lose more than $1.2 billion in funding, plus ownership of some of its smaller park units, under the Trump administration's proposed budget, released Friday morning. The Trump administration wants to reduce federal spending on national park operations by almost 40% as part of his broader agenda to shrink the size of the federal government across most agencies and departments, with notable exceptions for the Defense and Transportation departments.
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1 week ago |
sfgate.com | Kylie Mohr
The Trump administration wants to reduce federal spending on national park operations by almost 40% as part of his broader agenda to shrink the size of the federal government across most agencies and departments, with notable exceptions for the Defense and Transportation departments.
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Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Glacier national parks are on the cusp (ish) of opening for the summer season. What stories do you want to see about/from these places in the coming months? 🥾🌲🏔️🌼
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