If you're planning to travel to Yellowstone this summer, enjoy the relative peace and quiet (if such a thing exists in Yellowstone in the summer) while you can. By next year, the campers in the tent next to you might be gabbing on their cell phones. Park officials, according to the AP, are "quietly preparing a plan that could expand wireless towers and antennas as well as TV and radio service in the park." Because the real reason people visit the national parks is to watch "Lost" in their tents.

Oh give us a home where the buffalo rooooaaam … Forgive us, we’re inspired: Even as we sing, 16 bison are being released onto about 30,000 acres of their ancestral Montana prairie in an attempt to reintroduce the species in the wild there. It’s just one of several collaborative projects aiming to return the Great Plains to ecological balance and replace the region’s faltering agricultural economy and shrinking population with ecotourism and jobs centered around wildlife.

Grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park might soon make it off the endangered species list—which is either great or terrible, depending on your point of view. Bears in the park, a powerful symbol of the “wild” American West, are listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act; their numbers have more than tripled since the early 1980s, from roughly 200 to over 600. The Bush Administration has submitted a proposal to de-list the bears, meaning they would lose many federal protections. Limited hunting of grizzlies in the Yellowstone region would likely be allowed.