Outdoor Exhibits Promote Wildlife Safety Any trip to Yellowstone
can be a magical experience, but many people find that the more
opportunities they have to learn about the park and its
treasures, the more enthralled they are by what they see.
Yellowstone offers a broad continuum of educational services,
ranging from visitor centers and ranger-led programs, to
podcasts and self-guided trail maps. Wayside exhibits are among
the most convenient and cost-effective ways of reaching visitors
because they are available 24 hours per day, year-round. These
roadside or trailside exhibits offer interesting information in
site-specific contexts. Recently, the Yellowstone Park
Foundation funded several new exhibits, installed this past
spring, to help visitors learn more about park mammals and how
to view them safely. Large mammals -- primarily elk and bison,
but occasionally coyotes, wolves, and bears -- are seasonally
very visible in the Mammoth Hot Springs area. This presence of
interesting mammals draws large numbers