Yellowstone added to "danger" list: international team cites threats to world's first national park. (Yellowstone National Park)

National Parks, March, 1996 by O'Connell, Kim A.

The World Heritage Committee has designated Yellowstone National Park as an environmentally endangered park. A proposed gold-mine project threatens the park's geothermal resources, as well as its populations of bison, grizzly bears and cutthroat trout.

BERLIN, GER.--In December, three months after it made an unprecedented visit to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, the World Heritage Committee voted to add the park to the "World Heritage in Danger" list.

The listing focuses worldwide attention on the many threats confronting Yellowstone, especially the proposed New World Mine. At the behest of a coalition of 14 conservation groups organized by NPCA, the international committee visited Yellowstone in September to investigate whether these threats warranted the...

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