Yellowstone Park Foundation has launched a Ranger Fund initiative to raise $2 million to support backcountry rangers and improve facilities.
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Most visitors to Yellowstone National Park see just the tip of an immense, complicated iceberg.
When you drive through the park’s 2.2 million acres, you can see a great deal: bears, wolves, elk, bison, geysers, mountains and forests. What the visitor doesn’t see from the road is about 98 percent of the park, a backcountry region that’s managed as wilderness and patrolled by 22 elite rangers on horseback, skis and on foot.
Yellowstone Park Foundation http://ypf.org/
By BRODIE FARQUHAR Star-Tribune correspondent
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