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Staff Picks: Our Insider Recommendations on All Things Greater Yellowstone and Beyond | February 2024
In the depths of winter, we offer recommendations to try while the snow is flying and others that we hope will inspire your summer schemes! Plan your own geocaching adventure anywhere in the ecosystem or a backcountry expedition in Grand Teton National Park, read a hopeful story about climate change, and let us introduce you to a couple of four-legged adventure buddies in this GYC Staff Picks Blog.
Apsáalooke place names in Greater Yellowstone, part 3
Learn some of the Apsáalooke place names of beloved rivers, mountains, and other natural areas throughout the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Apsáalooke place names in Greater Yellowstone, part 2
Learn some of the Apsáalooke place names of beloved rivers, mountains, and other natural areas throughout the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Reflecting on 25 years of wolves in Yellowstone National Park
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Yellowstone wolf reintroduction, we had the opportunity to chat with Mike Phillips about that day in 1995 and the effect that wolves have had on the ecosystem as a whole. Mike Phillips has been a restoration ecologist since 1986 and led the historic effort to restore red wolves and served as the first leader of the Yellowstone wolf restoration project.
Studying Yellowstone's iconic wolves
Yellowstone’s wolf packs are iconic. Their reintroduction into the world’s first national park in 1995 is considered one of America’s best conservation success stories. Yellowstone National Park continues to be one of the best places in the world for studying wild wolves. I had the wonderful opportunity to learn about wolves and their behavior with our friend, Yellowstone Wolf Project Research Associate Kira Cassidy.