Welcome to my website, My Yellowstone Experience. In the Events section of my sister (Eastern Coyote Research) webpage, I describe the PowerPoint slideshow that I offer based on my many visits to the world’s first national park (established in 1872). This talk, “My Yellowstone Experience: A Photographic Journey of the World’s First National Park”, describes the unique geology and hydrothermal features, as well as the spectacular scenery and wildlife that lives there. In the presentation, you’ll see photographs of elk, bison, bighorn sheep, black bears, grizzly bears, coyote-badgers, and wolves, along with the park’s unique geology and scenery.
In addition to the talk that I offer, I have a book available with the same title. The best place to buy this book is on my Eastern Coyote Research store tab!
If there could be a polar geographic opposite to Yellowstone National Park located mostly in Northwestern Wyoming, it would be the flat coastal region of Cape Cod, Massachusetts where I am from. While in graduate school, however, I supplemented my knowledge of eastern coyotes/coywolves by visiting Yellowstone on several occasions and observing the famous and popular coyotes and wolves (and other wildlife) that live there. I have met some great people along the way. Amazingly, some wildlife watchers (a generic title to folks that spend lots of time looking for wildlife in the park) spend months at a time in the park and/or use all of their free vacation time to come to Yellowstone multiple times per year. This website is a tribute to the remarkable people, geology, animals, and scenery that make Yellowstone so spectacular. I particularly would like to thank Steve Cifuni, my friend and frequent traveling companion to Yellowstone. Steve and I literally shared cameras and gear during our weeks together. Additionally, I would like to thank Rick McIntyre and Laurie Lyman for greatly facilitating wolf (and many other species) watching when I am in the park.
So, relax and enjoy the pictures and accompanying text as you take a voyage on “My Yellowstone Experience”! I hope you enjoy “My Yellowstone Experience” as much as I do. Maybe I’ll get to see you in Yellowstone one day!
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Biographical sketch
Jonathan (Jon) Way has a B.S. (UMass Amherst), M.S. (UConn Storrs), and doctorate (Boston College) related to the study of eastern coyotes/coywolves. He is the author of the following books: 1) Suburban Howls, an account of his experiences studying eastern coyotes in Massachusetts; 2) My Yellowstone Experience, which details – in full color – the spectacular wildlife, scenery, and hydrothermal features that can be found in the world’s first national park; 3) Northeastern U.S. National Parks: What Is and What Could Be makes the case to expand the National Park System in the Northeast by adding 3 new national parks that are 44,000 acres or bigger; 4) The Trip of a Lifetime: A Pictorial Diary of My Journey Out West consists of 560 pages and nearly 1,000 pictures of a 3.5 week trip out west in 2019, showcasing most of the large mammals found in North America; 5) Coywolf: Eastern Coyote Genetics, Ecology, Management, and Politics is a 280 page pictorial treatise of his over 20 years studying this creature; 6) Christmas in Yellowstone is a 200+ page, 259 picture book based on his 9 day trip to the park during the 2020 holiday season; 7) Mud, I mean April, in Yellowstone, which is a 330 page, 430 picture look at the park during the mud season when nature transitions from winter to spring; 8) Yellowstone Wildlife during Summer, which was a major project showing over 650 pictures of the park’s amazing wildlife in over a decade of summers spent in the park; 9) A Yellowstone Summer with the Junction Butte Wolf Pack, which details, in 510 pictures, the life and times of a famous wolf pack followed during the summer by adoring fans; 10) Yellowstone in Winter: The Recovering Wolves of the Northern Range, which details, in over 450 pictures, the wildlife of Yellowstone, particular wolves and their prey, during the depths of winter; 11) Backpacking the Iconic Pemigewasset Wilderness, which describes my 3 day, 35 mile journey into the heart of the White Mountains, New Hampshire; and 12) A Beary Special April in Yellowstone, which details his week and a half long encounter with a wild grizzly bear. Jon founded and runs his organization, Eastern Coyote/Coywolf Research, where his goal is to conduct long-term ecological and behavioral research on eastern coyotes. He also supplements his research with regular trips to Yellowstone National Park and other national parks.
E-mail for contacting Jon: easterncoyoteresearch@yahoo.com
(From top to bottom: Canyon Wolf Pack beta male faces bison which he later killed, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Grand Prismatic Spring – picture taken from a ridge to the south, double rainbow in Round Prairie)
