Yellowstone Park Foundation has launched a Ranger Fund initiative to raise $2 million to support backcountry rangers and improve facilities.

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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