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Headlines: National campaign a chance to win $25,000 to preserve a Sublette County homestead Sublette Examiner – Sept. 7, 2010 Grizzly Bear relocated Taylor’s dirt bike has been found! Oops: wolves not saving aspen from elk Someone stole Taylor’s Dirt Bike! Turns out, it’s Grandma in the bag Forest Service/BLM prescribed burn northwest of Kemmerer Pinedale Roundup – September 3, 2010 Some Organizations at risk of automatic revocation of their Tax-Exempt Status Yellowstone set for final big weekend of summer Pinedale Local: Sublette Commissioners approve QEP rezone request Graveside Funeral Service for Ben Whitman Sept. 8 Funeral Services for Jim Buston Sept. 9 Haying Dig It! The Reseeded Garden Sublette Commissioners Agenda for Sept. 7 Bondurant Fall Festival Sept. 18 Middle Piney Lake Road Opening Ceremony Sept. 3 Your vote can help local historic homestead ranch preservation project get $25,000 Shell Pinedale Producing Operations Re-Certified for ISO 14001 Clinics will be closed on Labor Day, Sept. 6 Sublette P&Z proposes changes to county sign regulations

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The Sublette County Historical Society is asking for people to vote in the "This Place Matters" campaign for a chance to win $25,000 to help with restoration of the Sommers Homestead.

National campaign a chance to win $25,000 to preserve a Sublette County homestead (posted 9/8/10)
‘This Place Matters’ campaign. Please vote and tell your friends to vote!
Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online!
The Sublette County Historical Society (SCHS) is asking for your help. They are participating in a national campaign through the National Trust for Historic Preservation called "This Place Matters" which allows the public to vote online for a chance to win $25,000 for local historic preservation projects.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation created the photo-sharing campaign in 2008 to help raise awareness for and celebrate culturally diverse and unique communities across the United States. Sublette County submitted the Sommers Ranch Homestead project for this campaign.

The Sommers Ranch Homestead is a cooperative project between the Sublette County Historical Society and siblings Jonita and Albert Sommers. The homestead is located on their family ranch on the Green River about 7 miles south of the Cora Y. The Sommers family is giving the SCHS the homestead building and an easement to manage and preserve the historic ranch house building on one acre of land to create a living history demonstration project depicting early 1900s-era homestead life in Sublette County. The Sommers family also placed their entire ranch under a conservation easement earlier this year so the Homestead will always be surrounded by the historic ranch landscape.

The homestead house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. Click here to read more about the nomination information: National Register of Historic Places registration form (60 page PDF)

Restoration work has already begun. The first step in the restoration was to lift the house off its foundation and move it aside so construction crews can repair the crumbling concrete foundation. The careful and meticulous lifting and moving of the house took place last week.

Crews will next do structural restoration repairs on any damaged exterior logs of the house, and then move it back onto its foundation. The next step will be to work on restoration of the interior of the home, which will require careful work to maintain the historic integrity of the rooms.

The project is being coordinated by the SCHS, who has enlisted the services of a consulting historic architect and construction crews with experience on restoring historic buildings. Jim Roscoe, Roscoe Corporation, is the general contractor for the restoration. Kurt Dubbe, with Dubbe Moulder Architects from Jackson, is the historic architect. Lemons House Moving Inc., from Idaho Falls, was hired to lift and move the ranch house.

Once restoration is complete, the homestead will have hours in the summer when it will be open to the public. Plans are to have Historical Society staff on hand during those public hours to answer any questions people might have about the site and its history.

Ultimately, the SCHS hopes to have additional structures at the location, including a chicken coop, an ice house, a cellar, a windmill, and a meat storage building, as well as a working garden. Members of the local community are encouraged to become involved in this living history project to learn more and help with demonstrations of how things worked. If anyone has old ranch equipment that might help tell the story of our early Upper Green River Valley ranch settlement history, the SCHS welcomes hearing about that.

The intent of the "This Place Matters" campaign is to get local communities excited and engaged in their local historic preservation projects. Supporters are encouraged to go to the National Trust for Historic Preservation website and vote for their favorite local project. You can only vote once per email, but the Sublette County Historical Society hopes people will vote, and then tell their family and friends about the project and encourage them to go online and vote for the project and spread the word to their friends to get more votes.

Thanks to all of the votes so far, the Sommers Ranch Homestead Project is now ranked 18th out of more than 70 sites. Supporters can go to the following website and cast their vote for this project: http://my.preservationnation.org/site/PageNavigator/TPM_CC_Map. Sommers Ranch Homestead is the only project entered for Wyoming. Click on the blue bubble in Wyoming and select 'view webpage' from the popup. Once on the page, register your email and vote.

For more information about the Sommers Ranch Homestead Project, please contact Angie Thomas at the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale, 307-367-4101.

Voting ends September 15th.

Click on this link for more photos: National campaign a chance to win $25,000 to preserve a Sublette County homestead (9 photos)

Leaves turning yellow are appearing on trees in Sublette County as fall approaches. The Upper Green River Valley and Hoback Basin will soon experience dramatic temperature fluctuations. Photo by Mari Muzzi, Sublette Examiner.

Sublette Examiner – Sept. 7, 2010 (posted 9/8/10)
Leaving summer behind
State’s Sexual Registry questions linger
School money earmarked for State
Others’ addictions affect teens
Obituary – James "Jim" Buston Jr.
Obituary – Robert W. Sievers
Obituary – Layton Christopher Moffat

Grizzly Bear relocated (posted 9/8/10)
Wyoming Game & Fish
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department trapped and relocated two adult male grizzly bears on September 5, 2010.

One bear was captured because it was frequenting an outfitter camp north of Jackson, Wyoming. The other male bear was involved in sheep depredations on a federal grazing allotment north of Pinedale, WY. In cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Shoshone National Forest, the bears were relocated to the Clarks Fork drainage approximately 36 miles northwest of Cody, WY. The release site is located within the Grizzly Bear Recovery Zone and currently occupied grizzly bear habitat.

Grizzly bear relocation is a management tool afforded bear management personnel to minimize conflicts between humans and grizzlies. The decision to relocate and the selection of a relocation site is made taking into consideration the age, sex, and type of conflict the bear was involved in. Since grizzly bears are listed as "Threatened" under the Endangered Species Act, consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the appropriate land management agency is also made to minimize the chance of future conflicts and maximize the survival potential of the relocated grizzlies. Bears are relocated in accordance with federal law and regulation. When selecting a relocation site, the Department makes every consideration to minimize potential conflicts with livestock and people.

Bears can create conflicts after they have obtained food rewards. The Department continues to stress the importance of keeping all attractants (food items, horse feeds, bird seed and others) unavailable to bears. Reducing attractants reduces human-bear conflicts.

Taylor's bike has been found and returned! Photo courtesy Dyess family.

Taylor’s dirt bike has been found! (posted 9/6/10)
Thank you to everyone who helped look for it!
Clark Dyess
Monday, September 6, 10:35PM update
Hello!

I have fantastic news! We got Taylor's dirt bike back!!

We received a call a little bit before noon today that Taylor's dirt bike was reportedly found behind Pinedale's Recycling Center. When we arrived we were ecstatic to see that it was truly Taylor's dirt bike! Taylor was so excited that I think he was literally speechless! The sheriffs wouldn't let us take it right away because the detectives needed to still process the scene and take fingerprints. The detectives didn't have any luck getting good prints, but they are determined to find out who stole the bike.

The bike did have some of the stickers removed and the throttle was broken, but other than that it was it good shape. We are so thankful that it was still in such good condition. We took it home and Taylor fixed the throttle and a few short hours later Taylor was out riding it again!

I want to thank everyone for the words of encouragement and for spreading the news far and wide of the bike being stolen. I truly believe that there was so much talk about the dirt bike being stolen and so many friends and people we don't even know looking for the bike that the crooks got scared and "dumped" the bike before they got caught with it!

I want to give special thanks to Dawn Ballou for posting that Taylor's dirt bike was stolen along with the photo on pinedaleonline.com because the gentleman (I never did get his name, but I believe the sheriffs said it was Dennis) that spotted Taylor's bike recognized it right away because of Dawn's story! I also would like to thank our Sublette County Sheriff's Department, they were awesome to work with and kept in good contact with us over the last several days.

Thank you again to everyone for all of your help! Just when I was losing faith in people because of our situation, you all proved that there is still good by reaching out and helping. God Bless All of You and Thank You!

Clark Dyess
www.taylordyess.com

snowfireracing@yahoo.com
307-231-1974 Cellphone
307-367-2065 Fax

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Help! Someone stole Taylor’s Dirt Bike! September 5, 2010

Oops: wolves not saving aspen from elk (posted 9/6/10)
Cat Urbigkit, Pinedale Online!
Previous research has claimed that the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995 is helping restore quaking aspen in risky areas where wolves prowl. But apparently elk hungry for winter food had a different idea.

They didn’t know they were supposed to be responding to a "landscape of fear."

According to a study set to be published this week in Ecology, a journal of the Ecological Society of America, the fear of wolf predation may not be discouraging elk from eating aspen trees after all.

Previous thinking went like this: Aspen are not regenerating well in Yellowstone National Park. Elk eat young aspen. But wolves eat elk. Elk will learn to avoid high-risk areas that wolves frequent. Plants in those areas – such as aspen – will then get a chance to grow big enough so that elk cannot kill them. Eventually, an entire habitat is restored because of a landscape of fear.

Over the last 15 years, the reintroduction of wolves in Yellowstone was heralded as a great success, not only because it reestablished the species, but also because wolves were expected to help restore a healthier ecosystem through such cascading indirect effects on other species.

But this recent study led by Matthew Kauffman, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist, suggests that aspen are not benefitting from the landscape of fear created by wolves, and that claims of an ecosystem-wide recovery of aspen are premature.

"This study not only confirms that elk are responsible for the decline of aspen in Yellowstone beginning in the 1890s, but also that none of the aspen groves studied after wolf restoration appear to be regenerating, even in areas risky to elk," said Kauffman.

Because the fear of wolves does not appear to be benefiting aspen, the authors conclude that if the Northern Range elk population does not continue to decline -- their numbers are 40 percent of what they were before wolves -- many of Yellowstone’s aspen stands are unlikely to recover. "A landscape-level aspen recovery is likely only to occur if wolves, in combination with other predators and climate factors, further reduce the elk population," Kauffman said.

Predators play an important role in ecosystems, said Kauffman, and can influence plants by altering how many herbivores there are (by eating the herbivores) or by changing the behavior of herbivores (deterring them from areas where predators lurk). He adds, however, that considerable scientific debate exists regarding the importance of these two ways in which predators influence their prey. And this is especially true for large carnivores.

To complicate matters, predators use different hunting strategies – there is the sit-and-wait strategy (as with a spider in a web, or a rattlesnake waiting for a mouse to leave its burrow) and the more active, go get ’em strategy (think cheetahs and wolves). "So, given that it takes a lot of energy to avoid a predator – energy that could be used to stave off winter starvation – we wanted to find out whether the prey of active-hunting predators such as wolves demonstrated risk-induced changes in areas where they foraged for food," Kauffman said.

To do this, the authors analyzed tree rings to discern when, in the last century, aspen stands stopped regenerating, examined whether aspen stands have begun to regenerate now that wolves have been reintroduced to the park and tested whether any differences in aspen regeneration were occurring in areas considered safe or risky for foraging elk. They used a landscape-wide risk map of elk killed by wolves over the first 10 years of wolf recovery. Finally, the authors experimentally fenced in young aspen suckers to compare the protection afforded to them by wolves versus that of a physical barrier that prevented elk browsing.

"The results were surprising and have led us to refute several previous claims regarding interactions among wolves, elk and aspen in Yellowstone," Kauffman said.

The tree rings showed that the period when aspen failed to regenerate (1892 to 1956) lasted more than 60 years, spanning periods with and without wolves by several decades. "We concluded from this that the failure of aspen to regenerate was caused by an increase in the number of elk following the disappearance of wolves in the 1920s rather than by a rapid behavioral shift to more browsing on aspen once wolves were gone from the park," said Kauffman.

Surveys of current conditions indicated that aspen in study stands exposed to elk browsing were not growing to heights necessary to make them invulnerable to elk. The only places where suckers survived to reach a height sufficient to avoid browsing were in the fenced-in areas. In addition, aspen stands identified as risky from the predation risk map were browsed just as often as aspen growing in less risky areas.

"This work is consistent with much of what researchers have learned from studying wolves and elk in Yellowstone," Kauffman said. "Elk certainly respond behaviorally to the predation risk posed by wolves, but those small alterations to feeding and moving across the landscape don’t seem to add up to long-term benefits for aspen growing in areas risky to elk."

The paper, Are wolves saving Yellowstone’s aspen? A landscape-level test of a behaviorally mediated trophic cascade, will be published online in Ecology this week. Co-authors on the study are Matthew Kauffman (USGS), Jedediah Brodie (University of Montana) and Erik Jules (Humboldt State University).

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Someone stole Taylor's dirt bike on Sunday, September 4th.

Someone stole Taylor’s Dirt Bike! (posted 9/5/10)
Asking the public’s help to please be on the lookout for it!
Clark Dyess
Hello Everyone-

I hope this is the only time I ever have to come to you all with very sad and bad news.

Last night (Saturday, September 4) between 10:30 and Midnight someone stolen Taylor's dirt bike out of the back of my wife's pickup. We were awake and watching TV. We never heard anything and the funny thing is, our dogs never barked. We had house lights on and Heidi's truck was parked right underneath our porch light and the crooks still stole it! The really strange thing is that these low lifes stole Taylor's dirt bike and race fuel can, but left behind the other dirt bike that was in the back of the truck that belongs to a riding buddy of Taylor's! We found the fuel can about a block down from our house in some bushes along side a yard fence.

If I can ask everyone to put out the word to everyone they know and be on the look out for Taylor's bike, I would greatly appreciate it! The bike is a 2006 Yamaha YZ250 with custom graphics and blue anodized engine parts, footpegs and shifter. I am attaching a photo of the bike to this email and if anyone sees this bike, please call me!!!

We are just sick about this! Taylor is training so hard for this upcoming snocross season and riding his dirt bike is such a VERY IMPORTANT part of his training! We just don't know what to do. Right now, we just can't afford to buy another dirt bike, we are just too close to race season and we are needing to save our money for the upcoming season. Things are coming into place for Taylor to have the biggest opportunity of his racing career that will be released in days to come and things are set for Taylor have the most unbelievable season yet and then something like this happens and feels like such a insurmountable set back!

Thank you to all of you for your help and pray that we find the Taylor's motorcycle or figure out a way for Taylor to continue to practice and train on one!

Clark Dyess

www.taylordyess.com

snowfireracing@yahoo.com

Sublette County Sheriff’s Office: 307-367-4378

Turns out, it’s Grandma in the bag (posted 9/4/10)
Wyoming Highway Patrol
FARSON – Troopers may get into some dangerous, hazardous, suspicious and/or even bizarre situations. On Wednesday, September 1st, Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers got into one of the bizarre.

Two male individuals from Worland, the driver and his passenger, were arrested during a traffic stop just east of Farson on WYO 28 shortly after 7:00 a.m. The two subjects were found to be in possession of trace amounts of marijuana, syringes with residue, drug paraphernalia and multiple pieces of unknown prescription medications.

In addition to the known substances there was a small zip lock baggie that had been placed inside a Crown Royal bag that the Troopers located in the center console of the vehicle. Inside the baggie was a powdery substance that the Troopers were suspicious of, but not exactly sure what it was. It was thought that the powdery substance might be either poor quality cocaine or methamphetamine.

After scrutinizing the powdery substance, questioning the two vehicle occupants, and checking with the vehicle owner, it turned out that the small baggie contained the cremated ashes of the vehicle owner’s grandmother. The vehicle owner, who was not present at the time, confirmed that she was very close to her grandmother and that she always keeps her nearby in the console.

The driver and passenger have been charged with misdemeanor possession of a schedule II prescription drug of OxyContin. Troopers returned Grandma to the console in her Crown Royal bag.

Pole Creek prescribed burn

Forest Service/BLM prescribed burn northwest of Kemmerer (posted 9/4/10)
In the Pole Creek area, west of LaBarge and Commissary Ridge
Bridger-Teton National Forest
KEMMERER – The Kemmerer Ranger District of the Bridger-Teton National Forest and the Kemmerer Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management plan to implement a prescribed burn in the Pole Creek area this fall. The project will burn across approximately 13,000 acres. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management Fire Managers hope to begin ignitions around September 1, 2010.

The Pole Creek Prescribed Fire project is located in Lincoln County, 25 miles Northwest of Kemmerer, WY. The project area encompasses Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, State and private lands.

The objectives of the burn are to rejuvenate decadent aspen stands by targeting dead and dying eetle killed conifers, promote grasses and forbs to improve habitat for big game, reduce hazardous fuel accumulations and restore fire to the landscape representing a more historical and natural role in the environment.

This project is expected to be carried out anytime between September 1 and October 31. Actual ignition dates will be dependent on meeting strict parameters for weather and fire behavior conditions. Flames may be visible during the active burning operation and smoke will be evident in the vicinity, especially in mountain valleys during the early morning hours of the burn period. This project has the potential to impact both archery and rifle seasons.

For public safety, a temporary closure will be in effect throughout the duration of the project. Roads 10145, 10136, 10282, 10155, and a portion of 10154 and Carl Creek road will be closed.

The Hams Fork Road will remain open. Visitors are reminded to always use caution when recreating in burned areas. Smoke, falling snags and active fire may be present after a closure has been lifted. Interagency fire managers will attempt to minimize any adverse impacts to the public as the burns proceed.

A No-Camping closure will be in effect from Sept 1 – Oct 31, or until lifted, to provide for public safety during ignition operations. The public is encouraged not to set up camps in the area until the closure is lifted. If camps are found within the area, the occupants will be asked to move for their safety and the safety of fire personnel.

This vegetation treatment is an interagency cooperative effort with Wyoming Game & Fish Department, Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative, US Forest Service and Wyoming Wildlife Natural Resource Trust Fund.

For more information about this project, contact USFS Kirk Strom at 307-828-5116, or BLM Richard Putnam at 307-352-0236.

Map (PDF): http://gacc.nifc.gov/egbc/dispatch/wy-tdc/documents/information/prescribed-fires/nocampingltr.pdf

Louis Cleveland tests his Harley during the "burnout" portion of the poker run Saturday evening, when riders revved their engines to see how much smoke their back tires could create. Photo by Kaitlyn McAvoy, Pinedale Roundup.

Pinedale Roundup – September 3, 2010 (posted 9/3/10)
Run, rabbit, run
Commissioners met in executive session with QEP reps following sale
Sheriff race includes Independents, Republicans, write-ins
Freudenthal changes sage grouse area

Some Organizations at risk of automatic revocation of their Tax-Exempt Status (posted 9/2/10)
IRS.gov
Pinedale Online!
Please see the note at the end of this article for an update on this story.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website has a list of tax-exempt organizations that are at risk of losing their tax-exempt status because they have not satisfied the annual filing requirements for three consecutive years. The website has a list of organizations by state. The Wyoming list PDF is 27 pages long with as many as 50 organizations listed on each page.

The list includes a number of Sublette County organizations:
Big Piney Pinners
Business & Professional Women’s Club of Pinedale
Community Christian Church of Big Piney
Friends of Education Inc, Big Piney
Friends of Hoback Ranches, Inc.
Green River Irrigation District, Pinedale
Home Town Hospice, Inc, Pinedale
JOY Inc, Pinedale
Paradise Canal Corporation, Boulder
Research Community Project, Marbleton
Snow Explorers Club Inc, Pinedale
Sublette County Board of Realtors, Pinedale
Sublette County Bowlers Association, Pinedale
Sublette County Outfitters & Guides Association, Pinedale
The Community Food Closet Inc, Big Piney
Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, Pinedale
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Other selected organizations on the Wyoming list:
Association of Professional Artists, Inc, Gillette
Bowhunters of Wyoming Inc, Green River
Cheyenne Genealogical and Historical Society
Cheyenne Public Employees Association
Christian Broadcasting Inc, Douglas
Cokeville Chamber of Commerce
Deaf Association of Wyoming, Cheyenne
Disabled American Veterans (Lander, Gillette, Sheridan)
Dubois Outfitters Association
Fraternal Order of Eagles (7 towns)
Independent Order of Odd Fellows (15 towns)
International Association of Lions Clubs (12 towns)
Jackson Hole Outfitters & Guides Association, Jackson
Jackson Hole Shooting Sports Foundation, Jackson
Knights of Columbus (9 towns)
League of Women Voters of Wyoming (Casper, Cheyenne, Gillette)
Midwives Alliance of Wyoming, Cheyenne
National Association of Letter Carriers (10 towns)
Nibrara Chamber of Commerce, Lusk
Professional Land Surveyors Association of Wyoming Inc, Cheyenne
Rawlins Volunteer Fire Department, Rawlins
Riverton Valley EMT Association, Riverton
Star Valley Historic Preservation Inc, Thayne
Sweetwater County Volunteer Fire Association Inc, Rock Springs
The Dubois Museum Association
The Johnson County Search and Rescue Unit, Buffalo
Trout Unlimited, Lander
United Mine Workers of America (Rock Springs, Sheridan)
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Department of Wyoming (10 towns)
Wind River Rescue, Crowheart
Wyoming Archaeological Society Inc, Casper
Wyoming Association of Professional Archaeologists, Laramie
Wyoming Game Wardens Association, Laramie
Wyoming Pharmaceutical Association, Casper
Wyoming Quarter Horse Association, Casper
Wyoming State Historical Society (12 towns)
Yellowstone National Art Trust, Jackson
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According to the IRS, most tax-exempt organizations, other than churches, must file a yearly return or notice with the IRS. If an organization does not file as required for three consecutive years, the law provides that it automatically loses its tax-exempt status. Loss of exempt status means an organization must file income tax returns and pay income tax, and its contributors will not be able to deduct their donations.

From the IRS website:
(http://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=225889,00.html)

"Tax-exempt organizations that do not satisfy annual filing requirements for three consecutive years automatically lose their tax-exempt status. The IRS is providing one-time relief for such organizations that have filing due dates on or after May 17 and before October 15, 2010. The list includes organizations for which the IRS does not have a record of a required annual filing for 2007 and 2008, and whose 2009 return, due on or after May 17 and before October 15, 2010, has not yet been received.

The list, which was generated on June 30, 2010, includes only organizations with an annual filing requirement. Certain exempt organizations are exempt from this requirement. These organizations should check their records and determine whether they are at risk of automatic revocation because they have not satisfied annual filing requirements. In addition, the list may include organizations that were required to file Form 990 or Form 990-PF. These organizations are not eligible to take advantage of this one-time IRS filing relief to bring them into compliance."

Every organization exempt from federal income tax under Internal Revenue Code section 501(a) must file an annual information return except organizations on this list: http://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=152729,00.html

Frequently Asked Questions: ttp://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=221600,00.html
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Editor’s Update 9/3/10: According to the Wyoming State Historical Society (WSHS) newsletter (September 2010), their CPA contacted the IRS by phone and in writing, and the IRS agreed that this list included chapters and organizations which it shouldn’t have. All WSHS chapters included in the group filing are current with the IRS in their filings and their tax exempt status is current as well. "This list showed many chapters of the WSHS that had indeed filed each year with the group filing and exemption."

Yellowstone set for final big weekend of summer (posted 9/1/10)
Summer season closures begin Sept. 5th
Yellowstone National Park
Good weather is forecast for Yellowstone National Park for the start of the Labor Day holiday weekend. This typically results in a pulse of weekend visitors, as many people from the area surrounding the park use the occasion to mark the unofficial end of summer.

All campgrounds, lodging, stores, shops, service stations, restaurants, and other services and activities in the park remain open for the start of the Labor Day weekend.

Campgrounds and lodging in and around the park can fill very early in the day. Advance reservations are highly recommended. Visitor should plan to arrive early at campgrounds that do not take reservations. The current status of available camping and lodging in the park is available by calling (307) 344-2114.

Some visitor services begin to close for the season starting Sunday, September 5. Details are available in the park newspaper handed out at entrance stations, from the staff at visitor centers and information stations in and near the park, or online at http://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/index.htm.

All roads to and inside the park remain open.

Visitors should expect travel delays of up to 30 minutes between Norris and Madison through Gibbon Canyon due to road construction, even during the holiday weekend. There are no longer any night closures on this road project.

There will be no holiday travel delays through Sylvan Pass (East Entrance road). Construction on that project will be halted from 6:30 p.m., Thursday, September 2, until 7:00 a.m., Tuesday, September 7.

The National Weather Service forecast is for sunny skies Friday with a slight chance of showers Saturday into Labor Day. Daytime highs are forecast to be in the upper 50s to upper 60s with overnight lows in the upper 30s.

However, Yellowstone's weather is very unpredictable. Both the park’s South and East Entrance roads were temporarily closed Tuesday morning, August 31 due to snow; the first time this has occurred since late spring. Fall visitors should be prepared for a wide range of weather conditions, including plows clearing snow from the roads, and temporary road closures.

Updated road information is available 24 hours a day at (307) 344-2117. Visitors can get the latest weather forecast by calling (307) 344-2113, or by listening to the NOAA Weather Radio station broadcasts from transmitters located at Mammoth Hot Springs and Grant Village.

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