This clip from National Geographic shows a baby bison that survives a lonesome night, then fends off a wolf until help arrives. Continue Reading →
Rough night in Yellowstone
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A modest proposal for fixing tourists’ stupidity
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A few weeks ago, I wrote a column more or less defending tourists unwise enough to think their trip to Yellowstone National Park should include a close encounter with a bison. I’m going to have to reconsider my stance after reading about the father-and-son team who put a bison calf in their SUV and took it to a ranger station, worried that the creature was freezing to death. What’s next? Will tourists net fish to save them from drowning? Maybe capture a pelican and put it in a cage so it doesn’t get hurt falling from the sky? Continue Reading →
Filed under: Last Best Blog, bison, Yellowstone National Park
Prairie Lights: Sympathy for the bison-loving tourists
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I feel doubly bad about the viral video in which the young woman attempts to pet a bison in Yellowstone National Park. For one thing, thousands, perhaps millions, of people will watch it and think, “I knew that business about the bison being dangerous was bullshit. The animal couldn’t have cared less.” (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Prairie Lights, bison, St. Francis of Assisi, Yellowstone National Park
Photographer gets down and dirty with bison gleaners
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There was a good story in the Billings Gazette last month about the Buffalo Bridge Project, which involves a group of people who scavenge whatever is left of bison that are killed just outside Yellowstone National Park. The photos were good, too, but for whatever reason there were no pictures of the dirty work—the blood, gore and viscera that accompany this odd, primitive endeavor. Matt Hamon to the rescue. He is a photographer based in Potomac, Mont., who spent a lot of time with the “gleaners,” as he calls them, and he has posted a batch of compelling, in-your-face photographs of what is involved in using all parts of a dead bison. What is more intriguing is that this series of photographs is only the start. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Last Best Blog, bison, Buffalo Bridge Project, Matt Hamon, Yellowstone National Park
Bison incident highlights parks’ growing challenges
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A 62-year-old Australian man sustained serious injuries Tuesday morning after an encounter with a bison near Old Faithful Lodge in Yellowstone National Park. The man, whose name was not released by park authorities, is the second visitor in less than three weeks to suffer a serious injury after a close encounter with a bison near Old Faithful geyser. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, Al Nash, bison, Old Faithful, Teton National Park, Yellowstone National Park
The story behind that head-butting bison
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Two frequent visitors to Yellowstone National Park ended up on the losing end of a close encounter with a lumbering bison last month when the agitated beast rammed their parked sport utility vehicle. The unexpected collision was captured on video, and the footage has gone viral, as it shows the amazing power of Yellowstone’s 2,000-pound behemoths. (more…) Continue Reading →
