Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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The trucks came by with mules and with carcasses to feed the wolves in the pens. We went back to Lamar and watched them hook up the sled and go up to feed the new wolves in the Rose Creek pens. The mule sled took about four hours to go in and back. Snowing hard. Lunch. We had a scanner for the park service frequencies. I listened while I finished reading L. David Mech's book, The Wolf. The road from Mammoth to Cooke City is temporarily closed; the snow plow is working it under white out conditions. 30,000 people came to Lamar Valley trying to see the wolves last summer. Some wolves were seen for 43 consecutive days. KOWA is the good spotting scope the Institute has. 27 power. The best time to see grizzlies is late May, early June in Lamar Valley, better than Hayden Valley, though there are some there too. Try the Wildlife Observation Class, May 28-31, and then stay on for Michael Bartley's class, Backpacking in Grizzly Country, or Grizzly Bear Ecology and Management, June 7-10. The road was opened again about 5.00 to let Cooke City People pass through. We went out again and met Jim and Diann watching bison and an elk carcass with five coyotes on it, to the north of the road below Slough Creek. Two of the coyotes had a fight, and various others were driving each other off the carcass. Back to the ranch, and the evening there, with good discussion of wilderness. Wednesday, March 6. There was a good full moon as I got up. Clear and cold, -1.3 o Fahrenheit. Jim and Diann and Bob went separately, and in a few minutes I drove down in the Jeep to the carcass of the night before. Three coyotes on it, but no wolves. No wolf activity. We drove up to Soda Butte, and, not long after I arrived, I saw the Crystal Bench Pack for a couple minutes, two blacks and one grey. There are only three in this pack. They came out of the woods and across into another patch of woods, and never came out. Jim, Nathan, Dan, were up on the hill and claimed they could barely see where they had laid down, and saw them get up and move around once or twice. Waited till noon, but no movement. Returned to the ranch and packed up to leave. Back to Soda Butte, but no movement. I climbed the hill, somewhat awkwardly with the spotting scope, but could see nothing. The spotting plane flew over and circled over where we know the three wolves in the pack were. I left to head out. There were 7 coyotes on the carcass below Slough Creek. Two were in a copulatory tie; I watched them tied for about 20 minutes. Then they broke loose; the male dragged his rear in the snow some after that. He tried to mount the female again, but to no avail. About 75 bison on the drive out. 50 elk. A coyote digging in the snow not far from the road. Another coyote walked right past the Jeep.
Two coyotes came down the road in front of the Jeep, then veered off downhill. Dinner at Chico's, fancy restaurant and lodge located at a hot springs about halfway between Gardiner and Livingston, though off on the east river road. Night in Gardiner with Jim and Diann. March 7, Thursday. Left at 5.15 a.m. for the drive home. Breakfast in Livingston. Road to Livingston clear, in the dark, but the Interstate was one good lane clear of snow, but the passing lane with light snow, and skittish for any passing. Pretty much the same nearly all the way home. Slightly under 700 miles in slightly less than 12 hours. One dipper seen going in the water and back out, at Soda Butte, just as I was leaving. Fisher, Hank, Wolf Wars: The Remarkable Inside Story of the Restoration of Wolves to Yellowstone. Helena: MT: Falcon Press, 1995. McIntyre, Rick, A Society of Wolves: National Parks and the Battle over the Wolf. Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 1993. The Wolf: A Howling in America's National Parks. Narrated by Robert Redford. Zion Natural History Association. 30 mins. Available: Zion Natural History Association, Zion National Park, Springdale, UT 81767. Also The Yellowstone Association, P. O. Box 17, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. Was That a Wolf? A Video Guide to Wolf Identification. 16 minutes. 1992. Lonewolf Productions. Bruce Weide, Pat Tucker, 833 Harrison, Missoula, MT 59802. 406/363-7291. Ross, Drew, "Bear Deterrent Sprays," Bears Magazine, Winter 1996, pp. 5-7. 11110 N. 5600 W, Tremonton, UT 84337. 801/257-3634. Also I have a handout from Jim Halfpenny. Bear Watching Guide, Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, Bears Magazine, September 1995. The Wolf: Real or Imagined? 1992. Lonewolf Productions. 28 minutes. Also produced by Montana Committee for the Humanities and Idaho Humanities Council. Yellowstone Association. Wilderness Profile. their newsletter. vol. 11, no. 1, Winter 1996. Has a good story on wolf reintroduction. Beyond Little Red Riding Hood: A Resource Directory for Teaching about Wolves. Timber Wolf Alliance. Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute, Northland College, Ashland, WI 54806. 1994. 715/682-1223. Yellowstone: Realm of the Coyote. National Geographic Video. ISBN 0 7922 3254 2. 60 minutes. 800/626-2500. Quite good. We watched it. Follows one coyote through a year, when he is chased out of his pack, spends the winter alone, and finds a mate in the spring (no doubt the narrative is pieced together from isolated shots).
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Trail Log 1995-1997 Holmes Rolston,
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1995 January 4, 1995. Wednesday. Ad
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"Winnow" - the root is wind, vent,
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Worker's Directory. He gave me a co
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7 year. Leaving the hospital comple
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9 Bougainvillaea. Many kinds, all w
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11 Gerenuk - a very long necked ant
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13 I took a bird walk on my own, as
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15 francolins egret, unidentified e
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17 2 males, old males 3 females, wi
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19 somewhat better on the return tr
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21 mahogany trees wild fig trees ga
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Continuing, we crossed a long, flat
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25 50 zebras 1,000 zebras on one si
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27 impala giraffe and baby zebras c
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29 Robin chat stone chat northern d
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31 We drove back around in the lake
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33 small park. Jane Goodall's resea
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35 July 6. Thursday, continued. Met
Page 45 and 46: 37 July 10. Monday. Drove to Kruger
Page 47 and 48: 39 The guides go first, Jan up fron
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Page 59 and 60: 47 At Skukuza, I separated from Joh
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Page 63 and 64: 51 Red-billed woodhoopoe, with call
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Page 77 and 78: 63 University of Cape Town. Lovely
Page 79 and 80: 65 the trashiest of all. Afternoon.
Page 81 and 82: 67 August 16. Wednesday. Day of mee
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Page 89 and 90: lawn). A near relative is Araucaria
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Page 93 and 94: track in the snow. We left about 11
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Page 101 and 102: Australia July 1 - August 19, 1996
Page 103 and 104: July 10, Wednesday. Drove to Laming
Page 105: We drove through the rainforest and
Page 109 and 110: QUT. Elizabeth Saxon, sat beside me
Page 111 and 112: Eucalyptus trees here are often dea
Page 113: and barely survived. Antechinus stu
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Page 120 and 121: it later deteriorated. Wombat kille
Page 122 and 123: Seminar at 2.15 p.m Chris Mortenson
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Page 130 and 131: This cave is the pouch of the femal
Page 132 and 133: Huge streams pour off the rock in a
Page 134 and 135: ut not all that messed up. Turned a
Page 136 and 137: Trail Log 1997 February 22, 1997, S
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Page 142 and 143: Back to the ranch. The coyote was a
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as a bell in contrast to yesterday.
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I went up on a higher hill to try t
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Siberia and Lake Baikal June 15-29,
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Russia has an 80-year old system of
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In the dining car, there never seem
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Reached Zilovo, about 10.15, about
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City tour on a nice day. Population
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second oldest 2,000,000 years. It h
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Communism unraveled, and that, we t
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Thalictrum foetidum Grimmia calcare
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Walk to Shaman Rock. From the rock,
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Viola rupestris Euphorbia alpina Pl
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Lychnis sibirica Schizonepetala mul
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wapiti, elk (American term), red de
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July 16-18, 1997, Tuesday through F
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Events in Ft. Collins area: July 28
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Camped at Sarto Creek, in flats nea
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Shuttle back to Missoula, arriving
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Polygonum viviparum, Alpine Bistort
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