May 15, 2026 The Bison calves are back! Spring 2026 has arrived. Winter tries to creep back occasionally, and then it feels like summer. No doubt you have experienced similar “weather uncertainty”. The bison calves, (sometimes called “red dogs” locally or “little oranges”) are here. *The Little Oranges term comes from YNP’s Bison biologist, Chris …
January 29,2026 Today might be a nice time to go for a ski with me. You’ll need some warm clothes, and it’s a beautiful day so bring sunscreen and water as well. I’ll have some snacks and binoculars!The valley you see above is looking east toward the Gallatin Mountain Range. From the west side of …
November 30, 2025, The Volcano It is already the last day of November 2025! Some Yellowstone updates below then on to more volcano news… Look at the link below to check out this last month’s reports from the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hans-public/volcano/wy1 Yellowstone’s visitation for the 2025 summer season (June-August) was 2,702,155, based on the …
October 7, 2025 Autumn has arrived in all its glory. Crystalline blue skies and flaming aspen, cottonwood and Rocky Mountain Maple trees. Shrubby willow, Chokecherry and Huckleberry are lighting up the mountain sides and river corridors. Elk are bugling and big migrations of birds are in flight. Recently, I had the good fortune to spend a week …
August 28, 2025The heat of summer Summer has been fast and furious with late Spring snow bringing us into summer with some moisture. Wildflowers bloomed in abundance, as you saw from my June newsletter, but this is the time of year when things are drying out and the wind blows constantly. We have experienced some …