By Kathy Lynch, copyright. June 27, 2012
Summer’s arrival in Yellowstone National Park brought blue skies and hot, windy days, bucking bison calves, prancing pronghorn fawns, and the promise of wolf pups to be seen.
The Lamar Canyon Pack, led by famous 6-year-old gray alpha female 832F (formerly “The ’06 Female”) and 4-year-old black alpha […]
Continue Reading →Wolf watching in Yellowstone over the winter holidays far surpassed my expectations. In fact, it turned out to be some of the best ever, at least in terms of numbers. The fact that the Mollie’s pack of 19 wolves unexpectedly turned up in the Northern Range definitely helped!
Mollie’s pack is named after Mollie Beattie, […]
Continue Reading →Kathie Lynch reports on bounty of summer life among the wolves, bison, elk, bears and vegetation of Yellowstone Park-
Story copyright © Kathie Lynch 2011
There is only one word to describe the beauty of Yellowstone in summer: breathtaking! After winter’s world of eternal white, the colors of early summer’s palate leap at your […]
Continue Reading →Kathie Lynch has sent her first report of the summer. The new packs on the Yellowstone Northern Range occupy similar locations as those in days gone by.
Thanks Kathie! Ralph Maughan
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Puppies! Yellowstone’s summer wolf watching season got off to a wonderful start with the debut of four […]
It looks like the Blacktails are now the largest pack on the Northern Range-
Kathie Lynch has written another report on the Yellowstone wolves (actually those on the Park’s northern range). My subhead above is just one of the many interesting facts I read in her report such as the Mollies alpha male is largest […]
Continue Reading →The Druids are the only northern range pack still intact. New packs and groups abound-
Due to the complexity of the changes on the northern range, I know it took Kathie several weeks to write this. Ralph Maughan
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Yellowstone wolf report. Feb. 15-22, 2009. By […]
Continue Reading →Are the Sloughs gone? Plus five new wolf groups-
As wolf mortality has increased there has been a general redistribution of wolves in the Northern Range. All the packs are affected, even the Druids.
The Slough Creek Pack may no longer be intact. Two more dead members of the pack have been found and the […]
Continue Reading →The Druids are doing well . . . the rest, not-
Kathie Lynch just wrote one of her detailed and descriptive wolf updates. It follows below.
Please note her plea for donations to the Park’s wolf program.
Thanks Kathie!
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Yellowstone wolf notes posted on Nov. 16, 2008. […]
Continue Reading →Kathie Lynch has written another great update on her wolf observations on the Yellowstone Park Northern Range. Ralph Maughan
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Yellowstone wolf notes. Nov. 21-25. Copyright Kathie Lynch.
Five days in Yellowstone, November 21-25, 2007, brought unbelievably frigid temperatures and many, many wolves. Frost was definitely on the Thanksgiving […]
Continue Reading →YNP WOLF Field Notes, Nov. 10-12, 2007. Copyright Kathie Lynch.
“Quite a day!” is the only way to describe Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007—the day the Druid Peak pack took back Lamar Valley! Almost four years after the reign of the Druids started to unravel with the deaths of the great […]
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