Today had me leading a wildlife watching program in the Park for three lovely ladies. They had an interest in seeing wolves and so our destination was directed towards Hayden Valley. Wolf viewing in the lower valleys is difficult at this time of year as their prey - principly elk- have headed to the high country. [...]
In the realm of national politics you, may know that Joe Biden was in the Park this week. I was leading a class down at Old Faithful when we ran into his entourage. Though I shied away from the plainclothes men with wires in their ears, but a few of the kids from our group did [...]
I had the most enjoyable time in the park today with some folks on a Yellowstone Association program. We met at Roosevelt Lodge then departed for Lamar Valley around 6:30 AM. Wolf viewing was slim to nil so we made a few stops to watch pronghorn antelope bison and a black bear along the south [...]
Monday’s become my officially unofficial day of unstructured time in the Park. I’m not sure how often you have one of these days but it seems that mine started out early in the morning, and headed in the wrong direction. By the time the world began waking up around me I was looking for reasons [...]
Today we conducted the seventh annual Yellowstone butterfly count! We had 23 participants but unfortunately the weather was not terribly butterfly-like. Although we did find one brand-new species not counted on the survey before-that being Arctic blue butterfly (picture below), most of what we saw were the usual suspects but in much reduced numbers. In [...]
After dropping the boy off at daycare I took the dogs for a short run in the Arch Park. From there we packed up and headed to Bozeman and the foundry. I had a few miniature sculptures that needed to be patinaed as well as needing to get some new sculptures quoted for molding and [...]
Tonight we had our second-ever evening to ourselves since the baby was born in October (yes we know that is crazy). We left Lil George with the baby sitter and headed up to the hills of Eagle Creek. From beneath the refuge of our bug net tied to a Doug fir we enjoyed a picnic dinner, expansive [...]
George spent the day Monday watching wolves on a carcass just a few miles from the house, along the Gardiner River between Gardiner and Mammoth. Here is a quick video through the spotting scope: wolf carcass on YouTube
We spent the weekend visiting friends in Silvergate, Montana. Our way through the park on Saturday was blessed with all the amazing abundance of Yellowstone in spring. Six grizzlies, 3 wolves, 3 coyotes, 1 moose, golden eagle, bald eagles, red tailed hawks, sandhill cranes, and our first bison calf.
We had agreed to meet friends in [...]
Friday was the first day that the park roads opened between Mammoth, West Yellowstone, and Old Faithful. We loaded up the car this morning intending to drive to Driggs, Idaho to deliver a sculpture. It turns out the folks we planned to visit were out of town, so we had a day to explore into [...]
