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  1. Park Service says visits to national parks are up

    President Barack Obama and his daughter Malia Obama, 11, left, listen to Park Ranger Katy Duffy, right, with Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar as they tour the Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park on Saturday. The Obama administration waived entrance fees for three summer weekends at all national parks. (Alex Brandon/AP photo)

  2. Bill keeps sleds in park

    Snowmobiles tour Yellowstone National Park in this undated photo. Photo courtesy of National Park Service.

  3. A fan of the parks

    Bradly J. Boner, AP First lady Laura Bush delivers a speech to National Park Service junior rangers during a visit to the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center on Monday in Grand Teton National Park.

  4. Walter Elwood Parkes

    Walter Elwood Parkes

  5. National Parks go 'green'

    Yellowstone National Park officials teamed with an engineering company in Montana to develop a piece of equipment that purges empty propane canisters of any remaining fuel and then punctures and crushes the container, converting it to a recyclable metal. (Courtesy Xanterra Parks and Resorts)

  6. Park leaders optimistic for summer

    In this June 2007 file photo, a visitor to Grand Teton National Park photographs a grizzly and her cubs crossing the road. Yellowstone and Grand Teton officials are hoping marketing efforts enhance this summer's tourist numbers after a slow winter. (Jim Laybourn/Star-Tribune correspondent)

  7. Casper plans parking blitz

    Casper plans parking blitz

  8. Little House on the Parking Lot

    Chris Braun, the head of Teton Buildings, talks to Damon Saunders about the company's recreation cabins at the home and garden show at the Casper Events Center on Saturday morning. (Lauren Huntington, Star-Tribune)

  9. National Parks go 'green'

    Some of the eco-friendly items you'll find in Yellowstone National Park include bar soap with holes in the middle and compostable corn-based plastic shampoo and conditioner bottles. (Courtesy Green Natura Company)

  10. Park leaders optimistic for summer

    A bull elk continues its forage while a buffalo marches past him near Phantom Lake in Yellowstone National Park.

  11. No fuss picnics in the park

    BLT Tortillas

  12. Park winter visits rise

    Snowcoaches this year are seeing many passengers inYellowstone National Park, and for the first time ever onecompany had a long waiting list. Photo Courtesy, Yellowstone Vacations.

  13. No fuss picnics in the park

    Tropical Turnovers

  14. Park sled use stays steady

    Two Bombardier snowcoaches carry winter visitors along a road near Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park earlier this winter. Snowcoach visits in the park rose about 7 percent this winter to 21,794. Photo by MARK GOCKE, Star-Tribune correspondent.

  15. Park Service approves Teton trails

    Park Service approves Teton trails

  16. NATIONAL PARKS

    ** FILE ** Interior Secretary Gale Norton crosses the bridge at Lower Yosemite Falls followed by Yosemite National Park superintendent Mike Tollefson, right, in Yosemite National Park, Calif., April 22, 2004. Eliminating a maintenance backlog in the national parks, as President Bush promised in his 2000 campaign, is impossible, Norton said Thursday, July 8, 2004. She likened the park system to an old house that will forever need repairs. (AP Photo/The Fresno Bee, Eric Paul Zamora, File)

  17. Hunters poach three park elk

    MARK GOCKE/Star-Tribune correspondent A bull elk bugles as part of its annual mating ritual in Yellowstone National Park. Elk hunting seasons are under way in areas around Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, but the season inside Grand Teton doesn't begin until Oct. 20.

  18. Park Elementary community waits on future

    First-graders Katee Smart and Jacob Dietz dismantle a tape player in the 'take-apart center' during free activity time on Thursday afternoon at Park Elementary School in Casper. The activity center gives kids a chance to build motor skills, among other things, while destroying discarded electronics and gadgets. Park Elementary School is in the process of planning for a new, larger building. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune.

  19. New slant on parking pleases customers

    The new diagonal parking spots on the south side of Midwest between Durbin and David Streets were filled during the lunch hour Thursday. Photo by Sarah Beth Barnett/Casper Star-Tribune.

  20. National parks get stimulus help

    A visitor to Grand Teton National Park captures a photo of a herd of bison beneath the Teton Range in this file photo from October. (Mark Gocke/Star-Tribune correspondent)

  21. National parks get stimulus help

    A visitor to Grand Teton National Park captures a photo of a herd of bison beneath the Teton Range in this file photo from October. (Mark Gocke/Star-Tribune correspondent)

  22. National parks expect slew of visitors

    National parks expect slew of visitors

  23. Four City Park homes to be razed

    This home at 733 S. Wolcott St. is one of four neighboring homes that will be demolished this summer. The properties, owned by Bill Farleigh and St. Mark's Episcopal Church, are too dilapidated to save, the owners said. Ryan Soderlin, Star-Tribune

  24. Parks seek more snowmobile comments

    Park-guided snowmobilers enter the West Yellowstone, Mont., entrance to Yellowstone National Park in this December 2003 file photo. The proposed winter-use rules for Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks were published Tuesday.

 
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