by George Bumann | Jul 7, 2026 | Animal Language, Yellowstone Wildlife
The most mesmerizing aspect of the unfolding scene before us I realize, is invisible. A handsome, mature grizzly bear is in my spotting scope, but he appears unsettled, paranoid one might say. As wildlife historian Bethan Wallace and I watch, the bear comes out of the...
by George Bumann | May 28, 2026 | Art, Sculpture stories
One of a kind.Every so often, there comes an individual wild animal that captures your imagination and holds it for months, years, and sometimes, great swaths of your life –Wolf 302M was that for me. I first came to know 302 as a young male looking for love in all the...
by George Bumann | Apr 30, 2026 | Yellowstone Wildlife
Jenny and I are enjoying the first pleasant evening of spring dining on the porch. We pull up our chairs and relax as warm, evening light spills over the mountain slopes and down into the valley floor. Faintly perceptible green squeezes its way up out of the soil...
by George Bumann | Oct 25, 2025 | Animal Language, Featured animal language, Yellowstone Wildlife
A surprise visit from a mountain lion motherShe sees us and she knows we see her. Her pink tongue pulses against the uprights of her ivory white canines. Her eyes fixate on us, her body frozen in the summer heat. Millenia of behavioral evolution swirls within her...
by George Bumann | Sep 29, 2025 | Adventures, Animal Language, Experiencing Yellowstone
A Simple Trip to the Post Office I just went for the mail. Literally, I just went to the post office, and out of that entry into Mammoth Hot Springs came one of the craziest wildlife encounters I’ve ever had in my two and a half decades of living and working in...
