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What does a wolf den look like?
A friend of mine stumbled upon a wolf den with pups while shed hunting a month ago. The pups were about four weeks old, he said. Apparently, his inadvertent presence caused the wolves to move their...
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What is wild?
What counts as wildness and wilderness is determined not by the absence of people, but by the relationship between people and place. A place is wild when its order is created according to its own...
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Weasels and birds
A pair of bluebirds has been nesting here for over a month. They laid a clutch around May 25 which didn’t hatch until several weeks ago (unless perhaps, when I go to inspect the box, they built a nest...
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The Tipping Point
Everything is up for grabs now relative to climate. Climatic tipping point talk is abuzz about the scientific community. All our efforts to save species have a large ‘unknown’ given rapid ecosystem...
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The GLORIA project in the Beartooth Mountains
I was in the Pryor Mountains last month on a BioBlitz. What’s a Bioblitz you might ask? It’s an appropriate name, because in the span of about 24 hours people group up and find as many species as...
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Summer backpack in the Winds
If things work out, I always try and spend some time backpacking in my favorite granitic peaks at the Continental Divide–The Wind Rivers or Bridger/Teton National Forest. This year I wanted to fill in...
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Ernest Hemingway, Bears, and Sunlight
My neighbor who was born in the valley in 1924 told me the other day that September 16 was his cut-off day. ”Usually snows on that day, or anytime soon afterwards”, he said. Well, things are...
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A farewell to a wonderfully curious wolf pup of the Hoodoo Pack
I have been randomly calling the Wyoming Mortality Hot Line or going to the online link to find out how many wolves have been killed (let’s not call it by the euphemism ‘harvested’). I am especially...
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What is an elephant?
The Buddha tells a parable that is a classic: The King has six blind men brought to the Palace and asked to describe an elephant. ”When the blind men had each felt a part of the elephant, the king...
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Cougars–Ghost of the Mountain
With this post begins a series on cougars and cougar tracking. The first cougar print I ever saw was at a tracking class around Davenport near Santa Cruz CA. Davenport is an ocean town, backed by...
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The Cry Heard Around the World
With wolf hunts now taking place in all three states around Yellowstone, new issues are coming up. Although Montana and Idaho had a hunt last year, this fall is Wyoming’s first wolf hunt. At least 10...
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Turning my head upside down about Grizzlies
“The Grizzly Bear, by William H. Wright, first published in 1909, is one of the best all around books ever written on the subject. His books shows a hunter becoming a naturalist: Wright first studied...
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Tracking small mammals
With warm temperatures and little snow in my mountain lion tracking areas, I’ve turned to tracking small mammals above my house. I’m not sure if I am just becoming aware of what these tracks look...
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Cougars and Wolves-A puzzle
Finally time to post a cougar entry. Days have been warm, so when we’ve had snow, it melts off quickly. But I’ve had two interesting cougar tracking experiences. Several days after a very nice snow I...
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Marten
There are plenty of weasels this year after a plentiful squirrel population. Here is a marten exploring a box with fat I made for him. Filed under: Mustelids Tagged: Martens
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Bobcats
Trapping season for bobcats and martens is over! Living here, it seems wildlife never get a break. Between hunting, collaring, trapping, logging, snowmobiling, ATV’s, there’s always some disturbance,...
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Weasel video
Here’s another type of weasel. I’m pretty sure this one is a long-tailed weasel because it’s tracks were about the right size. It’s hard to tell an ermine from a long-tail from the video. The quality...
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Everyone needs a Study Area
Everyone who is interested in nature needs a study area. Jon Young recommends a ‘secret spot’ that you go to everyday and sit for 45 minutes to an hour. While you sit you listen, possibly take notes,...
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Wolf investigates
I had my trail camera focused on a road killed jackrabbit. A marten spent two days trying to get it down. Then a coyote came bye, the marten scrambled up a tree, and the coyote pulled it from where it...
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Another view
Here’s another video of that wolf. Be patient till about 20 seconds when he comes and checks out the camera for a real close up. Filed under: New ideas Tagged: Wolf, Wolves
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