Enter the new Canyon Visitor Education Center and the world of Yellowstone’s supervolcano—a geological hotspot that has captured the minds and imaginations of people around the world. For the first time, park visitors will see, hear, and learn how the Yellowstone volcano, its geysers and hot springs, and its geologic history have shaped the distribution and abundance of all life found here. Explore these ideas through interactive exhibits, animations, audio- visual productions, and real-time scientific data. Your entrance fee dollars have helped rehabilitate and upgrade the Canyon Visitor Education Center. Originally built in 1958, it had developed structural defects and was too small to serve the number of visitors coming to the Canyon area. The renovated building now includes two stories of exhibits, has a new roof to withstand heavy snows, is built with structural steel to withstand earthquakes associated with the Yellowstone caldera, and has fully accessible public spaces.

The newly renovated Canyon Visitor Education Center tells the dynamic story of Yellowstone’s fascinating geology to park visitors for the first time! In addition to a new educational film now in production, unique and interactive exhibits include:

• A room-size relief model of Yellowstone that illuminates and narrates the park’s volcanic eruptions, lava flows, glaciers, and earthquake faults – the exhibit also includes interpretations of the park’s geology by native tribes associated with Yellowstone.
• A 9000 pound rotating globe illustrating global volcanic hot spots.
• One of the world’s largest lava lamps illustrating how magma rises by heat convection.
• Computer generated exhibits displaying real- time earthquake and other geologic data exactly at the same time it is being collected in the park!
• Murals and enlarged photos showing the enormity of Yellowstone’s glaciers.
• Detailed panoramas, dioramas, and cross sections of life in a lodgepole forest and grassland— habitats made possible by Yellowstone’s fire and ice.

Members of the Association’s Yellowstone Society, supporters who give $1000 or more on an annual basis in support of education in Yellowstone, gathered for a special pre-opening reception at the Canyon Visitor Education Center on August 24, 2006.

How would you like to take your private group wolf- watching in Yellowstone this winter? During this quiet time of year, you can book your own educational program at our field campus in the middle of Lamar Valley. You’ll enjoy cozy log cabins with propane heaters, a new bathhouse with private showers, and a common building with fully equipped kitchen and classrooms. The program fee is $625 per day for up to 14 participants and $1250 per day for 15 to 28 participants. Cabins are $325 per night for up to 14 participants and $650 per night for 15 to 28 participants. Dates currently available are November 7-9, December 12-22, January 1-5, January 23-26, February 20-22, March 12-13, and March 20-21.

From the stunning cover photo of northern Yellowstone through to December’s featured photo, this calendar reveals a Yellowstone both well known and seldom seen. Captions bring the photos alive, and each month includes notes about the park’s natural and cultural history. A great gift for family, friends—and yourself! Calendar size—12” X 12”

The National Park Service is seeking current and retired librarians to complete project work in the Yellowstone Research Library at the Heritage & Research Center in Gardiner, Montana this fall and winter. Housing is provided. For information, please contact Carol Shively at 307-344-2663 or carol_shively@nps.gov.