Yellowstone Treasures Blog

Just as the park is about to open for what is optimistically called the summer season, nature has dumped what looks like about a foot of snow on the Old Faithful area (see http://www.nps.gov/archive/yell/oldfaithfulcam.htm). Winter was relatively dry t… more »

Wanting to get an idea of the larger picture of the ongoing controversy about wolves, I recently bought and read my fifth book about Yellowstone and wolves, but this one from the point of view of a journalist, Wyoming resident, and (in recent years) shee… more »

The Spokane, Washington Spokesman-Review published the following figures on March 21st, gleaned from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: In addition to at least two packs each in the states of Washington and Idaho, they have counted a minimum population… more »

The day after I posted my sort-of-book-report about wolves, the Greater Yellowstone Coalition put up a very thoughtful article on the same general subject. Interested readers might take a look at the URL from the New West Blog that I'm sending here. more »

Tomorrow, April 16, the park opens to wheeled vehicles now that the roads have been (at least mostly) plowed. Better yet, if you go this weekend the $25 entrance fee is waived. Wish I could be there! more »