It really feels more like four or five parks with vastly different landscapes including forested mountains, bubbling mudpots and steamy fumeroles, the largest high elevation lake on the continent, and Lamar Valley, which has been called the Serengeti of North America for of its abundant wildlife viewing opportunities.

Stephany Seay writes, Yellowstone National Park recently announced that they intend to remove — mostly kill — nearly 1,400 of the country’s last continuously wild, migratory buffalo.