Latest Reports 4-8-20 Sunshine posted by Laurie Lyman April 8, 2020 — Hi Everyone ~   A beautiful day in the neighborhood and we had the Fedex man and UPS man show up today with lots of packages.  Highlight o Read more > 4-7-20 Nice day! posted by Laurie Lyman April 7, 2020 — Hi Everyone ~   Sunshine and a walk in nature at last!  Still very, very snowy so a lot of slush, but beautiful.  And then there was Read more > A closer look at black wolves in Yellowstone National Park posted by Dave Hornoff April 7, 2020 — “Black wolves are throughout the Rocky Mountains in the United States and up into Canada," Dr. Dan Stahler, a Yellowstone National Park Wildlife Read more > 4-6-20 Keeping the faith posted by Laurie Lyman April 6, 2020 — Hi Everyone ~   Woke up to more snow today with very little visibility and it continued all day, so no wolverine hunting today.  Warmer te Read more > Still here 4-5-20 posted by Laurie Lyman April 5, 2020 — Hi Everyone ~   Hope this finds you all well.   Snow and wind at Northeast today with a high in the forties.  As the temps rose, we Read more > Another Day 4-4-20 posted by Laurie Lyman April 4, 2020 — Hi Everyone ~   Sun today!  Finally, the sun came out and started melting the ice around here.  The peaks reaching for the sky were g Read more > Yellowstone Park settles arsenic lawsuit with county posted by Dave Hornoff April 4, 2020 —  The U.S. government has agreed to pay $1 million to a Montana water district to settle a lawsuit over the amount of arsenic coming into its sy Read more > Snow continues 4-3-20 posted by Laurie Lyman April 3, 2020 — Hi Everyone ~   Another day of snow at Northeast and cloudy further west.  It is just remarkable that we are just racking up all these sno Read more > Groups sue over continued grazing in Wyoming grizzly habitat posted by Dave Hornoff April 3, 2020 — Conservation groups sued the U.S. government Tuesday over livestock grazing in a Wyoming forest, saying grizzly bears are too often killed by ranchers Read more > Emergency order addresses travel through park issue posted by Dave Hornoff April 3, 2020 — When Montana Gov. Steve Bullock ordered on Monday that those who travel to Montana from elsewhere self-quarantine for 14 days, questions were almost i Read more > Idaho quake had little effect at Yellowstone posted by Dave Hornoff April 3, 2020 — The U.S. Geological Survey Yellowstone Volcano Observatory reports there are no connections between the 6.5 magnitude Idaho earthquake Tuesday and the Read more > A trip through the park to town 4-2-20 posted by Laurie Lyman April 2, 2020 — Hi Everyone ~    Got a fairly early start on our trip through the park this morning. We could see right away the blankets and blankets of Read more > Twenty Five Years of Wolves with Doug Smith posted by Dave Hornoff April 2, 2020 — https://www.facebook.com/YellowstoneNPS/videos/520831595201069/UzpfSTEwMDAyNDc1NTIzMjAwMzo2NDk4MTA3ODkxODc0MjM/ Read more > 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response posted by Dave Hornoff April 2, 2020 — The National Park Service is modifying its operations on a park-by-park basis in accordance with the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Cont Read more > Snow continues 4-1-20 posted by Laurie Lyman April 1, 2020 — Hi Everyone ~   One more day in the bunker.  I don’t believe in all the years I have seen snow falling here for so many days in a ro Read more > Using Satellites to Help Forecast Wildlife Migration & Wildfires posted by Dave Hornoff March 31, 2020 — The bison population has really exploded over the last two decades in Yellowstone National Park. This creates complex situations for wildlife managers Read more > Another Day 3-30-20 posted by Laurie Lyman March 30, 2020 — Hi Everyone ~     Yet another day watching Amphitheater completely clouded with snow.  It is hard to believe how much snow we are get Read more > Glacier National Park closes to all visitors posted by Dave Hornoff March 29, 2020 — Montana's signature National Parks are closed. After Yellowstone National Park closed Wednesday, park officials at Glacier National Park closed the p Read more > Drive home, Bison cull 3-26-20 posted by Laurie Lyman March 26, 2020 — Hi Everyone ~   Drove back to Northeast today.  The park is still mostly blanketed in beautiful snow shown off especially in the Lamar Val Read more > Xanterra: All operations suspended until May 21st posted by Dave Hornoff March 26, 2020 — Xanterra announced it is suspending all of its operations throughout the entirety of its national park facilities from Friday, March 20th, until Tuesd Read more >

Features Owl Summer — A new owl film posted by Dan Hartman March 31, 2020 —      During these strange and trying times Cindy and I have been sheltering in place here at our cabin.  We haven't been to t Read more > Charting Yellowstone Wolves — Special 25th Anniversary Edition! posted by Leo Leckie March 24, 2020 — The history of Yellowstone Wolves lives on — now in paper in a 281-page book! First, we put the Yellowstone wolves online in Ancestry.com. Now, Read more > Boreal Owl Update — Signs are Good posted by Dan Hartman March 19, 2020 —      I've been hesitant about doing a follow up to my boreal owl study because things went a bit south.      Read more > Boreal Study — Come on Springtime! posted by Dan Hartman March 2, 2020 —      Well, it's March 1st.  Time for my owl survey to begin this year, however, it is a bit more special.     Read more >

Featured photos Wolf Trail by Russ Kehler An Elegant Coyote Watches Lamar by Russ Kehler Smallest Of Impressions by Russ Kehler The Siren's Song by Russ Kehler Bears Awakening by Russ Kehler Unlikely Friends by Russ Kehler Narcissus the otter! by Russ Kehler Distracted Traveler by Russ Kehler Like Lightning by Russ Kehler Flying Fox by Russ Kehler Fishing Break by Russ Kehler Raising His Noble Chin by Russ Kehler