Yellowstone Treasures Blog

Doug Smith, the biologist in charge of the Yellowstone Wolf Project, gave an important report on the state of Yellowstone’s wolves last week In Cody, Wyoming. Speaking at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Smith mentioned that fall is “the hardest time… more »

Opinions and controversy concerning the wolves near Yellowstone continue to appear in media stories. Here are two recent examples.On January 29 the state of Wyoming and a U.S. Justice Department lawyer presented arguments before a U.S. District Judge… more »

Things are off to a slow start this year, with snow cover just sufficient to open the roads to over-snow vehicles on December 15. As of Dec. 27, Old Faithful and the West Entrance had 15 inches of snow on the ground, the East Entrance had 14, and Mammoth… more »

According to the Defenders of Wildlife Web site, the judge agreed that, in delisting the bears in 2007, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service did not "take into consideration the continued decline of the whitebark pine, a critical grizzly food source threat… more »

I just read today that both blacks and grizzlies are coming out of their dens a little early this year. It's not really surprising, since the snow pack is way below normal, and it has been relatively warm in Yellowstone. Tracks and bears have been sighte… 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 »

For an amazing list of animals just sighted during a very few days in Yellowstone, click on “More” at the bottom of the post for Day Four of the South Salem, New York’s, Wolf Conservation Center trip, at: http://nywolf.blogspot.com/2010/07/day-four-in-ye… more »