Learn more about Yellowstone's recent successes and challenges, along with priorities and actions park managers intend to pursue in the future, in our State of the Park report. Within each of these strategic priority areas are a wide range of actions designed to achieve success. The priorities are: 1) Focus on the Core (workforce) 2) Strengthen the Yellowstone Ecosystem and Heritage Resources 3) Deliver a World-Class Visitor Experience 4) Invest in Infrastructure and 5) Build Coalitions and Partnerships. To tackle these challenges, Yellowstone has set five major strategic priorities, each supporting the overarching National Park Service mission and each critical to Yellowstone's success. Employee housing, workforce development, historic preservation, effects of climate change, transboundary wildlife management, increasing visitation, and deteriorating infrastructure are issues impacting Yellowstone's workforce, resources, visitors, and gateway communities. Today, Yellowstone is facing new challenges. View/Download Yellowstone's 2021 State of the Park report. Through modern resource management efforts involving bison, grizzly bears, native fish, gray wolves, wildland fire, and others, Yellowstone's ecosystem is the healthiest it has been in over a century. Later that century, the fires of 1988 burned more than one-third of the park, and the introduction of nonnative lake trout decimated native Yellowstone cutthroat populations. In the early 1900s, the government killed nearly all predators in the park, and the bison population was hunted to less than two dozen. Park managers have learned many lessons during Yellowstone's 150 years. For over 10,000 years before Yellowstone became a national park, it was a place where Native Americans lived, hunted, fished, gathered plants, quarried obsidian, and used thermal waters for religious and medicinal purposes. The park is also rich in cultural and historical resources with 25 sites, landmarks, and districts on the National Register of Historic Places.īased on the park’s location at the convergence of the Great Plains, Great Basin, and Columbia Plateau, 27 Native American Tribes have historic and modern connections to the land and its resources. Yellowstone has the most active, diverse, and intact collections of combined geothermal features with over 10,000 hydrothermal sites and half the world's active geysers. Yellowstone serves as the core of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, one of the last and largest nearly intact natural ecosystems on the planet. Grant, America's first national park was set aside to preserve and protect the scenery, cultural heritage, wildlife, geologic and ecological systems and processes in their natural condition for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations.
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