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Yellowstone Lake

noun

  1. a lake in NW Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park. 20 miles (32 km) long; 140 sq. mi. (363 sq. km).


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On June 1, a bison gored an 83-year-old woman from Greenville, S.C., lifting her about a foot off the ground near Yellowstone Lake, park officials said.

The woman from Greenville, South Carolina, was gored by the animal June 1 near the Storm Point Trail at Yellowstone Lake, park officials said in a news release.

She had been walking in a field with another person near Yellowstone Lake.

"We show that contrary to expectation, the ice phenology of Yellowstone Lake has been uniquely resistant to climate change," wrote the scientists, led by Lusha Tronstad, lead invertebrate zoologist with UW's Wyoming Natural Diversity Database and Department of Zoology and Physiology, and Isabella Oleksy, a former UW postdoctoral researcher now on the University of Colorado-Boulder faculty.

"The unchanging ice phenology of Yellowstone Lake stands in stark contrast to similar lakes in the Northern Hemisphere."

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