The organizers of Camp Loll, a Boy Scout camp off the southwest side of Yellowstone National Park, say new National Park Service guidelines unfairly penalize their access to the remote Bechler Canyon area of the Park and would severely curtail the number of Scouts taking advantage of Yellowstone.

In a situation some liken to the canary in the coal mine, the Fish and Wildlife Service has denied Endangered Species protections to the Yellowstone pika, saying the small rodent should be able to deal with projected rising temperatures due to global warning.

Allow us a minute of bragging, but we've reached a milestone in the relatively short history of this Website: we're the number-one third-party Yellowstone National Park website, according to the Quantcast measurement service.

It's not engendering the same amount of passion and discussion as it once did, but the 2010 Yellowstone Earthquake Swarm is still alive and kicking -- but just barely.