Yellowstone National Park
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I posted a story earlier about this energy generating bacteria that lives in Old Faithful and nearby thermal features. It was a short story. I have deleted it in favor of this longer story. Surprising New Species Of Light-harvesting Bacterium Discovered In Yellowstone. Science Daily. post 1379
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The one big fire in Yellowstone keeps growing, and now at over 2000 acres has burned out the middle of Specimen Creek, a major drainage in the NW Corner of the Park. My earlier stories on the Owl Fire. Update, from Inciweb on Saturday, July 28. Today 12 handcrews were assigned to the fire line…
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So far Yellowstone has escaped this summer’s conflagrations because there has been almost no lightning, but you don’t have spend much time in the Park to see that it is every bit as dry as the summer of 1988. The first big fire is the Owl Fire in the backcountry at the NW corner of…
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Here is the story in the West Yellowstone News. By Carol Hoffman. When I was in YNP last week I pulled up some of this from along the Madison River (at “the Barns”) and also along the north part of the Grand Loop. I saw some on the edge of the road in Lamar Valley,…
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Kathie Lynch sent this story to me on July 21. I was in Yellowstone at the time. The scene for watching the wolves was perfect — sit in the shade at the Otter Creek picnic area and wait for them to appear on the other side of the Yellowstone River about 175 yards away. Kathie’s…
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I’ve been in Yellowstone for about 4 days. I want to thank BE for taking care of the blog. I came home early. It was a very unpleasant trip — hot and smoky. Until the heat wave passes and the forest fires abate, I won’t recommend the trip. Outside the Park, the dirt roads have…
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It seems the cattle industry has maintained it’s scapegoat for the time being. Montana representative Rehberg killed a house amendment based on Schweitzer’s plan to buffer the rest of the state’s brucellosis free status from those that wander around Yellowstone. That would have protected the buffalo AND the livestock industry’s sacred brucellosis free status. Rehberg…
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Dr. Douglas Smith provided me with a near complete pup count for the Park this year. He stressed that for the packs where all pups have been visually counted, this is a high count, meaning that already a few have disappeared, probably dead. Most surprising to me was Oxbow with 12 pups, eleven still alive.…