Impactswww.flickr.com Historic Yellowstone flooding brings renewal despite destruction Flooding helps seed majestic cottonwood trees and favors native trout. High water allows them to escape to calmer side channels, where they can spawn.
Newslettercommons.wikimedia.org Post-flood Yellowstone rebuilding could cost more than $1 billion Restoring Yellowstone National Park after recent floods washed away bridges and roads could cost more than $1 billion, and the effort could take years given the challenge of making repairs in a protected landscape.
Newslettercommons.wikimedia.org Yellowstone flood could close parts of park all summer Washed-out roads from Gardiner, Mont., to the northeast entrance aren’t expected to reopen this summer, officials said.
Impactswww.nps.gov Yellowstone shuts down after record rainfall ravages roads National park officials have closed Yellowstone until at least Wednesday.
