Category Archives: wilderness

A River’s Season

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Monica

A River’s Season To every thing there is a season. For a river, there is a time to build, and a time to cut away a time to slow down, and a time to speed up a time to sparkle, … Continue reading →

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Dead Tree Breathing

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Monica

Sound of Dead Tree Breathing Wind-driven bellows empty and fill cavity vibrates with rasping breath wistful music of standing death On the DeLacy Creek trail to Shoshone Lake in Yellowstone National Park, we heard this tree filling its tree lungs.  … Continue reading →

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Highlights of Yellowstone in August, front and backcountry

Posted on August 9, 2015 by Monica

Lone Star Geyser erupting just as we approached having a warm bath in Shoshone Creek near a hot spring seeing Shoshone Lake, one of my favorite places on earth, from many perspectives and in many different lights, and waking up … Continue reading →

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Sweet New Year Wishes

Posted on December 28, 2014 by Monica

To my special and talented fellow bloggers, wishes for a sweet 2015, with fine foodclear skies   treasures large and small free flight an open road wild vistastime with loved onesand a happy heart

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Practicing to be Ferocious

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Monica

Grizzly sow and cubs by the side of the road   The only times I have seen a grizzly sow with cubs have been from the car. That’s probably a good thing. Apparently if she chooses the time and place … Continue reading →

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Sights and Sounds of Yellowstone in Late Spring/Western Meadowlark

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Monica

  Western Meadowlark, Yellowstone, May 2014

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Backpacking at Wolf Lake in Yellowstone

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Monica

This July we backpacked into Wolf Lake in Yellowstone National Park.  Wolf Lake ranks as one of my most special places.  Its beauty is wild and calm; the Gibbon River babbles through the meadow here.  In a short while, the … Continue reading →

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Wolves Give Life

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Monica

This gorgeous video comes courtesy of Shelley Coldiron, executive director of W.O.L.F.,  and Amelia Curzon, who blogs at Mungai and the Goa Constrictor  The video explores the ways in which wolves are regenerating the ecosystem in Yellowstone National Park and … Continue reading →

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Delisting the Wolf – Your Help is Needed!

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Monica

Originally posted on Mungai and the Goa Constrictor:
Image: Lynn M. Stone / Nature Picture Library The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is in its comment period on their proposal to remove the wolf from the Endangered Species Act in…

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It’s Been Nice Knowing Ya’ – Toss Me the Car Keys!

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Monica

I didn’t tell the full truth in my last post.  Probably to protect the … well, not exactly innocent. To tell the full story, I have to go back a dozen years to one of our earliest semi-annual spring and … Continue reading →

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