29 December 2019. Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Reflects On His First Year. Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cameron “Cam” Sholly reflects on his first year overseeing the country’s oldest national park in this interview with Wyoming PBS.
25 December 2019. Steam On, Steamboat: The World’s Tallest Active Geyser Has Another Record Year. This is a cool article with a 4 minute story on Yellowstone’s (formerly) lesser known geyser.
19 December 2019. More needed to end (Yellowstone) bison slaughter. This is a good article about the ruthless hazing and killing that bison experience when they leave the protection of Yellowstone National Park. If they were treated as wildlife, they would be allowed to roam just like all other wildlife species are able to.
19 December 2019. In some sad news, 2 Yellowstone wolf pups fatally hit by a vehicle inside the park in November.
14 November 2019. Fewer Yellowstone wolves equals no wolf-on-wolf deaths. A most interesting article.
11 November 2019. Yellowstone’s Wolves: Infusing Wildness Into The Landscape. A good article in National Parks Traveler.
25 October 2019. Yellowstone Neighbors Sue Park Service Over Bison Hunting. This is potentially good news for bison as that area (Beattie Gulch) is often known as the firing line as hunters literally wait at the line where they leave Yellowstone Park and enter non-park lands.
21 October 2019. Twilight of a Yellowstone ‘winterkeeper’ in the age of climate change: Steven Fuller is a living legend in America’s oldest National Park and an Endangered 21st-Century Icon. This is an interesting article about a man who literally keeps snow off of buildings in the interior of the park.
21 October 2019. Thorofare expat lobo lives on. Wolf from the southern part of Yellowstone and ranging into Grand Teton National Park is documented alive in Colorado. This is exciting news!
20 October 2019. Federal judge oversees wild court at America’s original national park. An interesting and very different article about one of only two judges to preside within a National Park.
17 October 2019. Rick McIntyre, retired wolf biologist/interpreter of Yellowstone’s new book “The Rise of Wolf 8”, the first of a planned trilogy, is out. Here are some stories on this awesome book:
OnPoint NPR interview: The Wolf Runt Who Rose To Alpha-Male Status In Yellowstone.
Newsweek article: HOW ‘UNDERDOG’ YELLOWSTONE WOLF RUNT BECAME ALPHA-MALE PACK LEADER.
MacLean’s magazine: How a runt wolf from Canada became a hero: A new book tells the story of the greatest wolf who ever lived, and the one greater than him.
10 October 2019. Speaker aims to separate fact from fiction for park wolves. A good summary of Doug Smith’s recent talk in Cody, WY.
16 September 2019. The Wolves of Yellowstone Love to Play—Just Like Dogs: Rick McIntyre’s “The Rise of Wolf 8” is a goldmine of all sorts of information. This is a good book review by well known author and biologist Dr. Marc Bekoff.
30 August 2019. Short write-up for a book that I am really looking forward to: The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog, by Rick McIntyre. It is ranked #12 on the list…. There is also a link to a 1992 (historic) article about bringing wolves back to Yellowstone.
25 August 2019. Dozens of Yellowstone bison transferred to Fort Peck Indian Reservation: 55 bison completed Phases I & II of quarantine protocol.
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17 August 2019. Grand Teton National Park Visitors Playing With Fire By Feeding Bears. It is too bad that the actions of a few may eventually lead to the death of black and/or grizzly bears if they become habituated to people because of their careless behavior.
15 August 2019. More on the fascinating Aug. 4 post: Elk can be just as good at avoiding cougars and wolves as they are at hiding from hunters, study shows.
4 August 2019. Fascinating article with link to scientific paper: Fearing cougars more than wolves, Yellowstone elk manage threats from both predators. It appears that cougars – not wolves – have a slightly greater effect on elk in Yellowstone despite conventional thought.
31 July 2019. Grizzly bears put back on endangered list in Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. This is the result of multiple lawsuits in 2017 when the government tried to remove them from the ESA list.
30 July 2019. 2 bears euthanized in Yellowstone National Park, search for third underway. This is such disappointing news. I just returned from Yellowstone a couple of weeks ago and noted how many black bears that I saw – most just foraging near roads (probably to avoid grizzlies in the back-country). It is a real tragedy that people are letting bears get access to human food which is causing them to habituate to people.
12 June 2019. Good, personal article in the Washington Post by Doug Smith, Head of the Yellowstone Wolf Project: My time with ‘male 911’: This Yellowstone wolf was safe from people, but not from nature.
7 June 2019. Wyoming reels in wolf hunting quotas. While this is good news because less wolves will be killed it just shows who is in charge of wolf management. An agency that wants to manage an ecologically important animal at the bare minimum numbers. Truly a sad state of affairs. I love the hunters non-scientific comments after the article about the need to “manage” wolves. They have no clue to actual wolf biology.
17 May 2019. Buffalo Field Campaign’s Update from the Field: More Hazing Along the Madison River. This is an on-going national travesty that most people don’t know about: bison essentially aren’t allowed to leave Yellowstone National Park (except for a few tiny areas) and when they do they are hazed back to the park, or in some cases, worse, they are killed. They are not treated as wild animals. What a national disgrace.
15 May 2019. As grizzly bears proliferate in Montana, tourists follow. This is a cool article from about 10 miles north of Yellowstone. It is great that ranchers are involved in Grizzly Bear conservation!
30 April 2019. National Parks Study Wolf Deaths As Agency Plans Delisting Endangered Species. There is a tremendous political “football” associated with wolf management with the typical state-hating carnivore management plans designed to manage numbers at low numbers while the majority of the public supports carnivore populations in more and more areas.
26 April 2019. A closer look at declining Yellowstone wolf numbers. A good, short article.
14 April 2019. Long, snowy winters taking toll on Yellowstone elk. Interesting article about the size of the elk herd in and around the Northern Range of Yellowstone.
1 March 2019. Wolf friendly businesses in Silver Gate and Cooke City, Montana. This is a helpful list for those wildlife watchers traveling to Yellowstone National Park.
8 February 2019. Battle in Yellowstone: Video shows long-legged elk schooling wolves. This is a cool article and video showing that predation is a tough life and predators aren’t always successful. In fact, they fail more times than they succeed.
5 February 2019. Yellowstone wolves should be off limits to hunting. This is a great article with a bill pending to make this into law. From the article: “I grew up a hunter. I believe there are species and situations for which hunting makes sense. Killing wolves along the undetectable edges of our national parks is simply not one of them.” Update Feb. 23: Unfortunately, this did not pass, which is probably not surprising given the rural dominated legislator: Senate panel tanks ban on wolf hunting, trapping near Yellowstone.
31 January 2019. Buffalo Field Campaign update from the field. In some good news, bison are still living almost exclusively within Yellowstone so have not migrated out of the park where they are subjected to unnecessary slaughter.