by Jenny Golding | May 26, 2021 | Backcountry, Yellowstone Life
19 years ago we celebrated our one-year wedding anniversary overlooking Yellowstone Lake as we entered through the East Entrance on our way to jobs with the Yellowstone Association at the Lamar Buffalo Ranch. A lot has changed in our two decades together, but one...
by Jenny Golding | Mar 1, 2020 | Nature, Yellowstone Life
Yellowstone was established by an act of Congress on March 1, 1872. Here are some of our favorite photos in celebration of this incredibly diverse, magical, and important place. A very happy birthday to you, Yellowstone National Park! Enjoy a Yellowstone Slideshow:...
by George Bumann | Dec 5, 2019 | Nature, Yellowstone Life
Ravens don’t often volunteer for research positions. This is something that veteran raven researchers John Marzluff and Matthias (pronounced “Ma-tee-us”) Loretto, collaborators on Yellowstone’s newest raven research project, know all too...
by Jenny Golding | Jun 4, 2018 | Nature, Yellowstone Life
May is always a time of rushing rivers as the winter snows melt and flow down out of the mountains. With snowfall 160% of average in the upper Yellowstone drainage this year, Yellowstone rivers and streams are seeing record high flows throughout the ecosystem. Just...
by George Bumann | Mar 16, 2018 | Family, How To, Lifestyle, Nature, Yellowstone Life
When the old post office in Gardiner was being built, our neighbor found a chipped piece of obsidian in the earth around the site. That piece turned out to be an 11,000 year-old fragment of a projectile point knapped from volcanic glass that mined at Obsidian Cliff,...
by George Bumann | Feb 11, 2018 | Art, Nature, Yellowstone Life
A quote that I really like but have never been able to properly attribute goes like this: “If your life is worth living, it’s worth recording”. This is why I keep a field journal. We all encounter things that are magical, unique and frankly, in some...
