Yep. Everythingâhotels, cabins, campgroundsâhas been booked solid. Our local (world-class) museum will benefit this week as families already on this side of the Park look for things to do, but they'll really have to retreat to Colorado before they can find a place to stay.
Upsides: The labor shortage here is intense. I expect those "Now hiring all shifts $18/hr" signs will be coming down. Also expect not many seasonal employees will be laid off in our gateway communities but of course the 8000 or so employees in the park âwell I don't know what they're doing. Maybe they're not being evacuated, just reassigned.
Also upside is I wanted to take an overnight camp trip or two at least once or twice, but they changed all camping in Yellowstone to reservations-only. There used to be 200 or so campsites that were first-come first served that a savvy local could reasonably hope to snag while everyone else hoped for something closer to Old Faithful. But once they've killed off the inflow of tourists, there should be some availability later in the summer.
Yeah the entire park is closed and being evacuated. Even during the 1988 fires, they didn't evacuate the whole park, they let people exit whenever they felt sufficiently freaked out/or their vacation was over anyway, but couldn't come back in.
Yeah the entire park is closed and being evacuated. Even during the 1988 fires, they didn't evacuate the whole park, they let people exit whenever they felt sufficiently freaked out/or their vacation was over anyway, but couldn't come back in.
Sold a Bear Bait shirt! I need to figure out why it doesn't show up well in searches (lots of competition) but every once in a while someone must scroll thru hundreds of pages of shirts before they see this one. I didn't link it because this isn't the Spam thread and also because if you search for it and find it, let me know what your search terms were!
So I Chrome searched. 'Bear Bait T-shirt' and got boring results. Ugly. Entering 'Yellowstone bear bait t shirt' pulled up your white version at Sponsored > CafePress on the first try. Also Cafe Press was the fourth row down under Organic searches and your shirt was on the fourth row when clicking the Cafe Press link. Firefox brought you up immediately under Images and the first organic entry was you under Cafe Press. but then again, it could have been the cookies?
I was rooting for swifter justice in the park but the judge let him off with a warning.
Judge Mark Carman sentenced Reinke to 60 days in jail on the charge of harassing wildlife for the bison incident, plus 60 days for interfering with law enforcement and 10 days for disorderly conduct, for 130 days total in jail, with credit for 21 days served.
Reinke has also publicly described himself as an alcoholic.
In court Thursday, Reinke apologized to the bison, saying – “I’m sorry to the buffalo. He didn’t deserve what I did to him. I’m sorry, I really didn’t mean to hurt that buffalo.”
Judge Carman said, “You chased and hounded the bison. You’re lucky the bison didn’t take care of it, and you’re standing in front of me.”
Reinke has a criminal history dating to 1991, although no felony offenses.
A federal prosecutor and Carman described Reinke’s behavior as the most “egregious” case of animal harassment they’d seen in Yellowstone.
Judge Carman also emphasized that the viral video of Reinke’s actions did not affect the sentencing decisions.
Reinke will also be required to serve five years of unsupervised probation, in which he cannot use drugs or alcohol. He’s required to go through drug and alcohol treatment. He is also barred from Yellowstone, Glacier and Grand Teton parks during his probationary period
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Aug 5, 2020 - 11:48am
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Sold a Bear Bait shirt! I need to figure out why it doesn't show up well in searches (lots of competition) but every once in a while someone must scroll thru hundreds of pages of shirts before they see this one. I didn't link it because this isn't the Spam thread and also because if you search for it and find it, let me know what your search terms were!
Sold a Bear Bait shirt! I need to figure out why it doesn't show up well in searches (lots of competition) but every once in a while someone must scroll thru hundreds of pages of shirts before they see this one. I didn't link it because this isn't the Spam thread and also because if you search for it and find it, let me know what your search terms were!
Sold a Bear Bait shirt! I need to figure out why it doesn't show up well in searches (lots of competition) but every once in a while someone must scroll thru hundreds of pages of shirts before they see this one. I didn't link it because this isn't the Spam thread and also because if you search for it and find it, let me know what your search terms were!
