Roads End Naturalist

Exploring the natural world as we wander at the end of the road

Tag: Yellowstone

  • Finally…Wolves

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    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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    Mike Dunn

  • Great Gray Addendum

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    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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    Mike Dunn

  • Babies everywhere

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    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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    Mike Dunn