Tag: Yellowstone
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Year of the Grizzly
Bears keep me humble. They help me to keep the world in perspective and to understand where I fit on the spectrum of life. We need to preserve the wilderness and its monarchs for ourselves, and for the dreams of children. We should fight for these things as if our lives depended on it, because Read more…
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This Magical Place
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from. Terry Tempest Williams I could blog for another week or two on the beauty and majesty of my recent trip to Yellowstone. But, I will be back, with Read more…
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Sagebrush Speedsters
One of the changes I’ve noticed in the 25+ years I’ve been going to Yellowstone is an increasing number of Pronghorn in recent years. It used to be that you saw them mainly around the Gardiner area, but now they have greatly increased in numbers across the northern range, especially in Lamar Valley and Little Read more…
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A Bevy of Badgers
Badger – to bother, harass, or annoy…persistently; on and on; without stop; relentlessly; over and over; endlessly. Wonder where that verb comes from? Whatever its origin, this is the summer of the Badger in Yellowstone. The animal, that is…a persistent, relentless digger that roams the sagebrush flats in search of prey. This year I saw Read more…
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Canid Chaos
I am back home in NC now after a great two weeks in Yellowstone. I will post a few more blogs about my trip in the coming days but wanted to start with what I witnessed on my last morning through the park. The day started with an expletive when I realized at 4:30 a.m. Read more…
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Swift Water Fowl
Whenever I travel between Canyon and Lake I always stop at LeHardy Rapids on the Yellowstone River. The rapids are about 3 miles from the lake and were named for a map topographer in the late 1800s whose raft was destroyed in these swift waters. I stop at LeHardy for two reasons 1) to catch Read more…
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Finally…Wolves
NOTE: My group has arrived and we will be going through the park starting this morning. Posts will be limited for the next week due to internet access and time. I’ve been in the park three days and no wolves. I know several “Yellowstone wolves” were legally killed in lands outside the park by hunters Read more…
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Great Gray Addendum
I had heard about a Great Gray Owl nest in the park, so the morning after seeing the one up near the Beartooths (by the way, we did not find a nest at that one – yet) I decided to try to locate it. I knew roughly where it was as several photographers had mentioned Read more…
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Babies everywhere
It is spring in Yellowstone and there are babies everywhere, especially bison calves. Cute and frisky are the best words to describe these orange-furred bundles of energy – not the usual naturalist terms, but appropriate for these guys. And it has been a very good year for bison births – every herd has dozens of Read more…
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