Wildlife update

Of course this wildlife update could never be completely accurate; its just my own observations and the result of a few conversations. As I noted in an earlier post, up around Camp Creek where there is a nice mosaic of young and old spruce/doug fir forest plus open meadows, I saw sign of an abundance [...]

Jackson, the GYC annual meeting, and the room to roam

Soon the snows will be upon us but last week I was lucky enough to catch the fall colors in and around Jackson.  I attended the annual Greater Yellowstone Coalition meeting, always informative and fun.  I boarded the dog (no dogs allowed on Teton trails) and left a few days early.  The conference used to [...]

Can we really Re-Wild?

I just came back from New York where I picked up a few interesting books.   Two of them present similar science on our vanishing wildlife but different approaches.  End of the Wild by the late Stephen M. Meyer  who was a professor of Political Science at MIT, says it is just too late to save [...]

The right thing to do…Niagara falls and Yellowstone

I just returned from helping my son with location scouting at Niagara falls.  Its strikingly beautiful, especially in the winter.  The crowds are gone and its bitter cold, but there are ice floes in the river and parts of the falls are frozen.  The Canadian side still lights up the falls at night and the [...]

The magnificent and endangered grizzly

There’s been plenty of hubbub regarding bears this summer in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, mainly grizzlies.  If you haven’t followed it, we had two deaths just on the eastern side of the Absarokas from grizzlies this summer, one of them occurred just up the road from where I live.  In addition, there’s been 38 grizzly [...]