Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone. The 11 bears they have at this center are animals that could not be left in the wild. Six of them were orphaned when they were very young and then brought to this facility to be raised.
Kids Keeper program was very popular. The rangers first told the kids all about bears in the wild. Then each kid was given a small bucket with fruit and other food to hide in the rocks in the bear pen. After they got the kids back out of the pen, the rangers let the bears back in to find the hidden food. The kids just loved watching which bear would find where they had hidden something.
Northwest of West Yellowstone, there is a valley where a 7.5 earthquake in 1959 caused a major rock slide. 28 campers were killed and over 200 more injured. The earthquake caused Hebgen Lake formed by a man-made reservoir to drop by 15 feet. The road in and out of the valley was blocked, so the rescue effort was very challenging. The lake below is called Quake Lake. The rock slide dammed up the river and formed this lake. The camp site where several were killed is at the bottom of this lake.
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