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Following Grizzly Bear Tracks

by Jenny Golding | Jul 10, 2019 | How To, Nature, Yellowstone Wildlife

We recently encountered multiple sets of grizzly bear tracks on a hike in Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley. Here’s how we interpreted the signs they left behind. We decided to climb out of the river corridor to give these bears as much space as possible, for...
Getting To Know Your Wildlife Neighbors

Getting To Know Your Wildlife Neighbors

by George Bumann | Nov 7, 2018 | Animal Language, Featured animal language, How To, Nature

Do you know your neighbors? I mean, really know them?  I’m not talking about the human ones… Your wildlife neighbors know YOU… You are surrounded on a daily basis by many animals that know you personally—they differentiate you from your spouse, your...

It’s Always Worth It: A Snowy Yellowstone Hike

by Jenny Golding | Oct 30, 2018 | Adventures, Experiencing Yellowstone, How To, Nature

As many of you know, we have a motto “it’s always worth it.” Even if the weather is crummy, we’ll tell ourselves to go for “just a half an hour,” which usually turns into much longer once we’re out. This motto is what got us...
Backpacking in Yellowstone: Heart Lake to South Boundary

Backpacking in Yellowstone: Heart Lake to South Boundary

by Jenny Golding | Aug 5, 2018 | Adventures, Experiencing Yellowstone, How To

You know it’s going to be a good trip when you encounter fresh bear tracks not far from the trailhead. We followed them for miles, deeper and deeper into the backcountry, the pad markings fresh in the soft dusty dirt. Maybe a grizzly, or a giant black...
Ties to Our Surroundings: Making Rope from Dogbane

Ties to Our Surroundings: Making Rope from Dogbane

by George Bumann | Mar 16, 2018 | Family, How To, Lifestyle, Nature, Yellowstone Life

When the old post office in Gardiner was being built, our neighbor found a chipped piece of obsidian in the earth around the site. That piece turned out to be an 11,000 year-old fragment of a projectile point knapped from volcanic glass that mined at Obsidian Cliff,...

Capturing An Idea: The Making Of A Wolf Sculpture

by Jenny Golding | Mar 13, 2018 | Art, How To, Nature, Sculpture stories, Videos

Hang out with George in the studio as he transforms recent observations of wolf behavior into three different wolf sculpture ideas. Which one do you like...
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