Kazakhstan Officials Visit Yellowstone

Above, terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

It is fascinating to see officials from other countries visit our national parks to see how they are operated for ideas to develop their own national parks. The latest visitors were officials from Kazakhstan.

According to U.S. News & World Report:

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Officials in Kazakhstan are looking to Yellowstone National Park and their counterparts in Montana as they work to develop tourism focused on national parks at home. 

A group of state and local officials from the Central Asian nation along with an entrepreneur and embassy assistant visited Yellowstone last week.

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