The attention last summer's fires focused on Yellowstone National Park has fueled expansion of an organization dedicated to the park's protection.
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The Greater Yellowstone Coalition, which holds its annual conference this weekend at Old Faithful, has picked up nearly 500 new members in the last six months. The coalition now has more than 3,100 individual members and 60 organizational members nationwide."It isn't so much the fires," spokesman Todd Wilkinson said, but "After the smoke cleared, everyone realized how many threats to our national parks there are."