Stories in the Snowpack – Winter Training 2023-24
Yellowstone Wild guides work to understand the tracks left by a pack of wolves. Photo by Emil McCain Navigating snow, sagebrush, and downed timber, Yellowstone Wild Owner Emil McCain and 2023-24 winter guides came across telltale prints in the mid-December snowpack: wolves! The tracks merged, converged, showed signs of trotting and loping, and at times crisscrossed…
December 21, 2023
Why are we able to hear wolves howling from our driveways in Gardiner, Montana, during winter?
Photo courtesy of Rob Harwood Wildness will always envelop the North Entrance gateway community of Gardiner, Montana, the only year-round entry to Yellowstone National Park. Every autumn, as cold air threatens the highlands and snow skiffs across the landscape, grass-eating animals start long, stoic treks toward the fields and river valleys waiting below them. Like…
December 3, 2023