Montana, keep your hands off Yellowstone

It has to be a joke, right?

Nope. No joke. Montana State University is actually applying for a federal trademark so it exclusively can promote itself as "the University of the Yellowstone."

Can somebody show these people a map? MSU officials apparently don’t know or care that about 90 percent of Yellowstone National Park is located within Wyoming, not Montana.

Star-Tribune Editorial Board

Full Story: http://www.trib.com/articles/2007/08/16/editorial/editorial/9fe3f14a14eaf81787257338008387ae.txt

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MSU branding itself as University of the Yellowstone http://matr.net/article-25182.html