The Three Bear Lodge and Restaurant in West Yellowstone, Montana, will feel it, too.

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One additional airport, West Yellowstone in Montana, was approved in January.

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Rather than ride into the park on snowmobiles from the town of West Yellowstone, we opted for a trip on a historic yellow snow coach -- kind of a small, boxy heated bus on tracks that were first used 50 years ago.

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"Because of the seasonality of our business and the fact that our town of West Yellowstone basically shuts down whenever Yellowstone closes, we need revenue generated every day in order to stay solvent on a year around basis, " owner Clyde Seely said.

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In the 1990s, 14 wolves from Canada quickly reproduced after they were released in Yellowstone National Park in north-west Wyoming.

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And local government officials and business leaders in Cody, Wyoming, said Yellowstone National Park will delay the opening of its North and West entrances by a week until April 26, and its East, South and Northeast entrances by two weeks until mid-to-late May due to the impact budget cuts will have on snow removal.

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