This pack seem prepared to allow their young a brief foray to experience the world beyond their den. But his high-octane lifestyle critically depends on the summer sun. And in Yellowstone, that's never a guarantee. In the mountains surrounding the pl...
This pack seem prepared to allow their young a brief foray to experience the world beyond their den. Even in Yellow Stone it is extremely rare to see wolf pups like this. Before long they are summoned back into the forest by the pack. It will be wint...
Hot water scorches and drowns the roots of trees encroaching on the valleys. It can keep the forests in check and the rich pastures / open. Those pastures now produce the new grass needed to make rich milk and feed a bison baby boom. The few calves b...
As the migrating herds arrive in the plateaus river valleys, the spring is here. This is why they have made the journey after the famine of winter. Food is everywhere. Birds have flown in from as far away as the Arctic and subtropics. Canada geese jo...
As 6 months of snow and ice begins to melt, Yellowstone starts to come back to life. Cascading snowmelt swells the streams and rivers. It's a hazard that the migrating herds must cross. Young are barely up to the task. The Yellowstone river has incre...
Clues to why the herds are drawn to the Yellowstone plateau lie in its deep and unique history. This plateau is the created bowl of a huge sleeping volcano. And melting rock below the surface still pushes the land up to the cold of high altitude. But...
This mother bear's experience gives her family a good chance of survival until spring arrives. They will return again and again as the thaw releases more fish. On the warmer plains and valleys that surround the plateau, grazers are on the move. They...
The end of winter comes late to the mountainous northwest of the United States, and in particular, it lingers in Yellowstone. The heart of Yellowstone is a high cold plateau, 8,000 / feet up, surround by the spires of the Rocky Mountains. After five...
For six months, Yellowstone endures an unrelenting winter. An ice world of hunters and hunted. But now footsteps on the slopes of a mountain herald a change in the season. The sun regains its strength.Water flows again. The race begins to recover win...
In the skies above the Yellowstone River, an osprey scans the waters below for its next meal. Osprey have exceptionally acute vision and can pick out the movement of fish one hundred feet below. It's not easy to haul a struggling 3-pound trout out of...
