Bison
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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A bison has injured a hiker in Yellowstone National Park. How the bison hurt the woman Sunday near a trail at the northern end of Yellowstone Lake was not known, but she had significant injuries, park spokeswoman Linda Veress said. “We’re not clear how the encounter with the bison…
Yellowstone is the animal’s safe haven and their home at the end of the day, and that was showcased this past week in the park when a baby buffalo had enough for the day. I love how all of the adults just surround the baby when they end up passing outright in the road. They…
With last year being light on visitation for the park’s standards, this year Yellowstone is set to have huge numbers and with that will come more stupidity from everyone. This video is no different as we see two men giddily petting a buffalo like they are at the petting zoo with a fence to protect…
The tourist season is just now starting to ramp back up again here in the bighorn basin and we all know what that means… People not knowing how to conduct themselves around the majestic wildlife in the park. This is par for the course, but it never gets any less frustrating to us locals to…
As we prepare for another great year in Yellowstone National Park, which officially opens May 7th, let’s take a look at one of the wonders of the park. One of the majestic sites that proclaim the arrival of spring in Yellowstone quite like a bison calf. The calves, which are nicknamed “red dogs” have…
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Officials have transported 50 Yellowstone National Park bison to the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes in Montana. The animals transferred Friday were under quarantine by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service located north of the park in the Gardiner Basin, the Billings Gazette reported. The…
A dramatic new video depicting the true wildness of Yellowstone has emerged. Last month, a once in a lifetime encounter between a grizzly bear and a wolf pack was caught on video in Yellowstone. In this video, a bear was minding its own business in a valley when it noticed a wolf pack. It then…
Meeteetse wants your skulls – and the older, the better. This isn’t a ghoulish Halloween plot, but rather an attempt to better understand the history of America’s most iconic big animal in the Bighorn Basin. The Meeteetse Museums are asking for residents throughout northwest Wyoming to participate in the Bison of the Bighorn Basin project.…
One unfortunate reality of Yellowstone is interactions between visitors to the park and the animals that live there. Many who visit the park do not understand or respect the wildness of these animals, and as a result, every year we see preventable incidents occur between the animals and humans. This is usually because visitors get…
Bison culling operations have once again begun in Yellowstone. The operations of collecting and removing 600 to 900 animals from the estimated herd of 4,900 individuals began on March 1st in conjunction with the Interagency Bison Management Plan. The process begins once the bison migrate from the interior of the park into the Gardiner Basin,…