Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

Back to the ranch. The coyote was at the den site, but no pups seen. Bob Landis is doing a coyote
study.
4 bighorns in the distance.
Rick McIntyre, a sort of combination ranger-volunteer, who has a book on the wolves. Wrote A
Society of Wolves (Stillwater, MN: Voyager Press, 1993, revised edition 1996).
Drove to Tower. Those on the other side of the van glimpsed the sow black bear we had seen
before, but I didn't see it. From Tower drove toward Mammoth. Sandhill crane on nest at pond
west of Floating Lake. Sora rail on the edge of the pond. Yellow-headed blackbird.
Hamburger at Helen's in Gardiner.
One black bear in burned forest on return, nicely seen. A lone adult.
Cinnamon yearling cub at the bridge on an old carcass, with a patch of hair out of its rump. This
is one of "Rosie's cubs."
Different grizzlies seen:
Sow and three cubs of the year, Lamar ranch area
Sow and two cubs of the year, Lamar ranch area
Sow and two cubs of the year, Slough creek area
Subadult on hillside up road toward Soda Butte
Subadult on hillside down road
12 grizzly bears, to this point
Black bears seen:
sow and cub, seen at length, Tower area
black bear across from ranch, in distance one evening
black bear in burned forest on return
yearling cinnamon cub at bridge on old carcass
5 black bears, to this point
List of birds seen:
Barrow's goldeneye
Yellow-rumped warbler
prairie falcon
golden eagle
bald eagle
mountain bluebird
redtail hawk
lesser scaup
dipper
harlequin
chipping sparrow
green-winged teal
gadwall