Photo contributed by Stacey Sigler The stomachs of these two lake trout caught in the fall of 2007 were full of cutthroat trout.
National Park Service photo The Cody chapter of Trout Unlimited is raising money to fund research that may find a way to control Yellowstone Lake's out-of-control population of non-native lake trout that are decimating native cutthroat trout.
Visitors watch an eruption of Old Faithful at Yellowstone National Park. (Marke Gocke/Star-Tribune correspondent)
A new resident of Yellowstone, a fresh elk calf, takes some early steps on its wobbly legs near Yellowstone Lake on a recent morning.
Photo by Jim Laybourn, Star-Tribune correspondent
Retired ecologist and author, Chuck Neal, smells the root of a yampah plant during a hike he led in the grizzly bear habitat along the North Fork of the Shoshone River. Yampah root is a food source for grizzly bears. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune.
Retired ecologist and author, Chuck Neal, smells the root of a yampah plant during a hike he led in the grizzly bear habitat along the North Fork of the Shoshone River. Yampah root is a food source for grizzly bears. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune.
A bull bison watches passing cars as it walks down the plowed road in northern Yellowstone towards Mammoth Hot Springs in this 2006 file photo. (Jim Laybourn/Star-Tribune correspondent)
A group of buffalo wander in sub-zero temperatures during Interior Secretary Gale Norton visits in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)
Feds will reconsider listing Yellowstone cutthroat
The Yellowstone Heritage Center near the park's north entrance provides a wealth of historical and natural artifacts relating to Yellowstone National Park. It opened in 2005. Photo courtesy, Yellowstone Heritage Center
John Midkiff, president of Rodz and Ridez Club in Lusk, is reflected in the window of a 1948 Chevrolet Fleetline while walking around the car he owns, a 1976 Corvette Stingray, during the 2008 Cruzin' with the Oldies car show last May in Casper. This year's event features a new parade route and new venues for some of the events. (Kerry Huller/Star-Tribune)
The Upper Geyser Basin, which includes Grand Prismatic Spring, was once called Hell's Half Acre before its name was changed. (Brett French, The Billings Gazette)
A gray wolf watches park visitors warily as it feeds on an elk carcass near the road in Yellowstone National Park in this June 9 photo. Photo by Jim Laybourn, Star-Tribune correspondent.
A rutting bull bison chases another bison on Antelope Flats in Grand Teton National Park recently. (Mark Gocke/Star-Tribune correspondent)
In this Feb. 16, 2005 file photo, Interior Secretary Gale Norton walks past a vintage snow coach during the second day of her tour in Yellowstone National Park. The old "Bombers" aren't so old anymore. The aged Bombardier snow coaches — the first machines to carry winter visitors into Yellowstone National Park — are now greener under the hood. (Laura Rauch, AP file)
A grizzly bear peers up at a nearby raven momentarily while strolling through the grass in Yellowstone National Park recently.
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