Federal officials say most of Yellowstone National Park should reopen within the next two weeks after record floods pounded the region and knocked out major roads.
“That would get 75 to 80% of the park back to working,” National Park Service Director Charles “Chuck” Sams said Sunday during a visit to Yellowstone to gauge the flood’s effects.
Muddy water now courses through where the roadbed had been only a week ago. Trunks of huge trees litter the the surrounding canyon. In and around the agricultural community of Fromberg, the Clarks Fork River flooded almost 100 homes and badly damaged a major irrigation ditch that serves many farms. The town’s mayor says about a third of the flooded homes are too far gone to be repaired.In Red Lodge, nearly 150 homes were damaged or destroyed after Rock Creek escaped its banks last week.
One house at the confluence of Rosebud Creek and the Stillwater River near Absarokee remained threatened on Monday, Cowger said. She’s not resentful but resigned to the idea that if Fromberg is going to recover, its roughly 400 residents will have to do much of the work themselves.
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