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Tag Archives: national parks
Lost Canyon Adventure
After graduating from college in California, we moved to Michigan, where my husband started law school. The weather there is bitterly cold in winter and so hot in summer that life doesn’t seem worth living (before the days of universal … Continue reading
Posted in national parks, Nature, Poems, rescue, Utah, wilderness
Tagged adventure, backpacking, Canyonlands National Park, dark sky, Edward Abbey, Lost Canyon, national parks, nature, Orion, poetry, slickrock, U.S. Department of the Interior, Utah
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Dead Tree Breathing
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
Posted in music, national parks, Poems, wilderness, Yellowstone
Tagged national parks, pine trees, poetry, Yellowstone
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Highlights of Yellowstone in August, front and backcountry
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
Backpacking in Yellowstone/The Merger
Backpacking in Yellowstone Hoped-for submersion auspicious inversion civilizing subversion total immersion The Merger Speak not of boardrooms of quick-voiced chaos and closed-in spaces __________________ rather, into quiet ease – the lullaby of birdsong wind’s dance with the trees refrain of … Continue reading
Spring in Canyonlands and Green River, Utah
Last week we rented an RV and took our dogs to Utah. We love going there in the spring. But dogs are not permitted on trails in the national parks, and it’s generally too hot – or too uncomfortable – … Continue reading
Posted in national parks, Utah
Tagged Canyonlands, desert flowers, Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey, Green River, national parks, RV camping, San Rafael Swell, slot canyon, Utah
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Grand Tetons and Yellowstone in Late Spring
(late Monica, too) Some photos from our spring trip:
Posted in Grand Tetons, moon, national parks, Yellowstone
Tagged Grand Tetons, moon, moose, national parks, Yellowstone
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Practicing to be Ferocious
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
Posted in national parks, Poems, wilderness, Yellowstone
Tagged grizzlies, National Park Service, national parks, poetry, wilderness, Yellowstone
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Sights and Sounds of Yellowstone in Late Spring/Western Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark, Yellowstone, May 2014
Posted in Birds, national parks, wilderness, Yellowstone
Tagged bird song, birds, national parks, Western Meadowlark, wilderness, Yellowstone
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Wolves Give Life
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
Posted in blogging, Department of the Interior, ecology, national parks, Nature, politics, science, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, wilderness, wolves, Yellowstone
Tagged blogging, Defenders of Wildlife, ecology, Endangered Species Act, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Montana Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks, national parks, nature, NRDC, politics, science, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, W.O.L.F. Sanctuary, wilderness, wolves, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Yellowstone
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Wolves – De-Listed?
photo from “Wolves Cross the Road” in Wild Wolf Encounters, True Stories of Wolves in the Wild The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has proposed to de-list the gray wolf in the lower 48 United States. USFWS thinks wolves … Continue reading
Posted in Department of the Interior, Grand Tetons, national parks, Nature, politics, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, wolves, Yellowstone
Tagged Defenders of Wildlife, Endangered Species Act, Grand Tetons, hunting, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Montana Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks, national parks, NRDC, poems, politics, proposed wolf de-listing, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, wolf hunting, wolf management plans, wolves, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Yellowstone
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