Buckrail Daily: Yellowstone visitor gets jail time for stepping on hydrothermal features // Parks & Rec hearing community project suggestions

“Prosecuting crimes like this deters others from similar conduct — and from risking becoming thermal soup.”

A Texas man was sentenced to five days of incarceration for stepping on hydrothermal features in Yellowstone National Park.

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Man gets jail time for ‘walking directly’ on Yellowstone hydrothermal features

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — A Texas man was sentenced to five days of incarceration for stepping on hydrothermal features in Yellowstone National Park, according to a Thursday announcement by the United States […]

Parks & Rec to accept proposals from community members for park projects

JACKSON, Wyo. — On Feb. 24, the Teton County/Jackson Parks and Recreation Advisory Board approved the creation of a new program to allow residents to suggest larger park projects through a formal […]

SNAPPED: Elk, bison, bears on the move this spring

JACKSON, Wyo. — Spring is here and the animals are feeling it! Buckrail photographer Nick Sulzer has come across the banner megafauna of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem over the past week: a grizzly […]

One22 to host free budgeting workshop at the library

JACKSON, Wyo. — On Thursday, April 16, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., One22 will host a free budgeting workshop at the Teton County Library in the Ordway Auditorium. The workshop will have […]

Former state senator Kinney announces Democrat bid for US House seat

WYOMING — One more Wyomingite has announced a bid for the state’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives that is to be vacated by Harriet Hageman. Joining the field of […]