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...
Yesterday was one of the most amazing mornings I’ve ever had in the park. On my way through Swan Lake Flats at sunrise, I stopped and watched a cow elk and calf trotting through the sagebrush, backlit by the golden hues of the rising sun. I was thinking that was a...
The wildlife is exploding in the park… Once mid-May arrives, it’s as if a light switch has flipped on. It’s time for everyone to raise babies, much to our viewing pleasure. Bison calves skip and hop along with the herd, the first bear cubs follow along with mom,...
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...
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...
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...
