The iPad has taken complete control of my fun-loving ‘nature kid’. Sitting in a pile on the floor, swaddled in a red and green plaid blanket beside the space heater, my 9-year old has been seized by the device, and it isn’t letting go. Surely, all...
Spring is a pretty darned exciting time in the park, when it seems like anything is possible. And of course one of the things we get the most excited about are….grizzly bears! Even when spring weather is crummy (like it has been lately), we head out early most...
You can imagine my excitement when I got a text message from a friend innocuously asking, “are you local?” The meaning surrounding this line of a text is, “if you can, you better get your ass over here fast. But if you can’t, no big deal, this...
The recent death of 926F of the Lamar Canyon Pack has got me thinking back on all the individual wolves I have had the honor to observe and get to know over the years. I feel so fortunate having been able to spend the last decade and a half watching many of...
There aren’t a ton of moose in Yellowstone (less than 100 on the northern range), so when we see a few gathered together it’s quite a treat. On this day, we actually saw 10 moose over the course of the morning. This video shows two young bulls (probably...
How good is your memory? Can you remember directions to a new location without writing them down, or a handful of friend’s phone numbers? A Clark’s nutcracker will cache on the order of 50 to 80,000 seeds each autumn, and return to them over the course of...
