1/26/2024 0 Comments Hopefully next yearBack in the 96-97 winter, was very heavy. What we found is that weather has a lot more to do with when populations move out of the park than necessarily population numbers. So we ended up with 6,000 bison, which is a record level number of bison – since Yellowstone has become a park anyway – in the 20-23 season. The previous two winters to this had very light migration. Do you think too many bison were killed? Should there be a maximum for the amount of bison killed during the season?ĬS: Well, keep in mind 14 years ago, we shipped 1,200 bison to slaughter in a single year. But this past winter, an exceptional amount of bison were killed during the hunt and some people were angry as a result. Some tribal nations are able to hunt bison that leave the park during the winter. But I don't think we're in danger of anything like what we saw last June. And I think as long as we stay away from that combination, then we’re going to have a real good run off because we do have a really good snowpack. So what we don't want is fresh snow, lots of rain and warming temperatures. We also had a lot of rain going into June and especially three or four days before the flood event. We don't have that so far this year – knock on wood. So we had a lot of late snowfall in the spring. How are the flood repairs coming along? And is there any concern for similar events? Obviously, we don't want that to happen, but is there any concern?ĬM: Well, I think if you look at the patterns last year, we had more snow in April May than we did in January, February and March combined. KK: Maybe piggybacking off of that, there was an historic flood last year. But hopefully we can get back to some level of normalcy after a couple years of COVID and the floods from last year. A more normal summer and not have another flood or earthquake or volcano go off or something like that. looking forward to hopefully whatever “normal” is. That's going to hold as we progress here into May. And right now, I think we're pushing 1,500 gallons a day. I think we normally go through about 100 gallons of diesel per day opening the road in the spring with all the machinery and everything. So did it take additional work than normal to get ready for the summer season, besides the stuff that you already mentioned?ĬS: Crews are out there right now. Kamila Kudelska: Like you mentioned, there was a lot of snow. It's already seen a lot of traffic as we get further into spring. The road that we built between Mammoth and Gardiner held up well over the winter. We think we're going to have that online here early June, which will let us open all services here in Mammoth. So we've been trying to construct what would normally take two to three years for a temporary wastewater plant for about nine months, which has been pretty challenging, especially with all the snow and that kind of thing. We lost our wastewater system here, or a wastewater capacity, during the flood. The following transcript has been edited for brevity and clarity.Ĭam Sholly: It was a long one, especially coming off of such a long summer with a flood recovery and then going straight into one of the heaviest winters we've had in quite a while. But as he told Wyoming Public Radio’s Kamila Kudelska, the heavy snow from the winter is already adding more work. It is a lifeline for the gateway community of Cody, and after three years of continually being tested by the pandemic and historic flooding, Superintendent Cam Sholly is really hoping this summer will be quiet. Yellowstone National Park’s east entrance just opened.
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