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Article: YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST LIFT EMERGENCY CLOSURES
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 18, 2007
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The National Park Service's Yellowstone National Park issued the following press release:
Effective at midnight tonight, Yellowstone National Park and the Gallatin National Forest will lift emergency area closures temporarily put in place north of Gardiner in the Reese Creek area in Yellowstone National Park and Beattie Gulch area on the Gallatin National Forest. The emergency closures were put into effect Friday, September 14, to address human safety concerns after a bear mauling occurred.
Park and Forest officials believe the mauling was an isolated incident. The bear was not injured which would cause additional human safety concerns. To help reduce human and bear encounters, hikers and ...