Yellowstone Treasures Blog

Coming up next month are two events centered around the newly published translation of a really old and fascinating travelog about Yellowstone Park. Belgian travel writer and judge Jules Leclercq visited the park when it was only eleven years old, a… more »

Due to the May twentieth Moore, Oklahoma tornado, the NBC staff, who were flying the day after the tornado from Hawaii to Yellowstone, were diverted in mid flight to cover the story in Oklahoma instead of broadcasting a three-hour program from Old Faith… more »

My information on boating regulations comes from the Laurel, Montana “Outlook." In order to protect the waters of Yellowstone, all motorized and non-motorized watercraft entering the park’s lakes must now pass an Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) inspec… more »

I learned today from the Greater Yellowstone Coalition newsletter that 75 to 80 wolves now live in Yellowstone Park. This is less than half the number of wolves that lived in the park at the peak a few years ago. The current lower number explains why wo… more »

Here is something I can only hope will keep happening until I arrive at Old Faithful on June 21st. Rare and phenomenal eruptions of Morning Geyser have been taking place quite frequently since March. Eruptions can go as high as 200 feet, and, best of al… more »

Heading to Yellowstone myself in a few days, I was very interested to learn that blaming the wolves for the huge decrease in elk numbers in Yellowstone is a big over-simplification. The numbers are unquestionably way down since I began taking notice in… more »