Yellowstone National Park
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Rocky Barker says that we ( in Idaho) are now living in conditions like those in Yellowstone in 1988 when the fires exploded, and a month early at that! We live in the indefinitely bad fire season with conditions off the chart. By Rocky Barker. Idaho Statesman. I have added the following after receiving comments…
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The Druids returned to the Lamar for the first time since late June. Although their visit may have been brief, Kathie Lynch describes it all. Her report. – – – – – Copyright By Kathie Lynch. Just when I was wondering what excitement I’d write about for a late summer wolf report, the Druid Peak…
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In the latest “wolf weekly” report from Ed Bangs at USFWS, Ed wrote: Yellowstone Park researchers report that the summer predation study is going well. Approx 31 kills have been found May-mid through mid-July and they are 20 bulls, 5 cows, 5 calves, 1 mule deer. These data support the results of research done by…
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I posted a story earlier about this energy generating bacteria that lives in Old Faithful and nearby thermal features. It was a short story. I have deleted it in favor of this longer story. Surprising New Species Of Light-harvesting Bacterium Discovered In Yellowstone. Science Daily. post 1379
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The one big fire in Yellowstone keeps growing, and now at over 2000 acres has burned out the middle of Specimen Creek, a major drainage in the NW Corner of the Park. My earlier stories on the Owl Fire. Update, from Inciweb on Saturday, July 28. Today 12 handcrews were assigned to the fire line…
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So far Yellowstone has escaped this summer’s conflagrations because there has been almost no lightning, but you don’t have spend much time in the Park to see that it is every bit as dry as the summer of 1988. The first big fire is the Owl Fire in the backcountry at the NW corner of…
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Here is the story in the West Yellowstone News. By Carol Hoffman. When I was in YNP last week I pulled up some of this from along the Madison River (at “the Barns”) and also along the north part of the Grand Loop. I saw some on the edge of the road in Lamar Valley,…
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Kathie Lynch sent this story to me on July 21. I was in Yellowstone at the time. The scene for watching the wolves was perfect — sit in the shade at the Otter Creek picnic area and wait for them to appear on the other side of the Yellowstone River about 175 yards away. Kathie’s…