Yellowstone National Park

It’s our pleasure to present another installment in our People of Fly Fishing Series; today’s interview is with West Yellowstone guide Joe Moore of Big Sky Anglers. We had the pleasure of chatting with Joe recently about goings on in Yellowstone and winter photography trips in the neighborhood and asked him if he’d be willing […]

Yellowstone National Park has just recently released their annual report Yellowstone National Park: Natural Resource Vital Signs, 2011. If you have any interest at all in Yellowstone (and you should for a whole host of reasons) the entire 19 page pdf is worth a glance. The wide ranging report covers a host of topics, split […]

The Lamar River valley in the northeastern quadrant of Yellowstone is an awesome place any time of year, though fall is one of my favorite times to be there, particularly headed up the Lamar drainage as the hoards don’t make it that far. Fishing in this sector of the Park is almost always finis by […]

Scott Christy, the TU Wyoming Coordinator, was kind enough to send a link over regarding a nifty tagging project that just kicked off on Yellowstone Lake as part of the impressive collective effort to restore native Yellowstone cutthroat. It’s posted over on the Wyoming TU site here, though we’ve reproduced the full article here as […]

The report of yesterday’s fatal grizzly encounter in Yellowstone National Park is all over the Montana press today. The incident occurred on the Wapiti Lake trail (east of the Grand Loop Road south of Canyon Village). A husband and wife hiking were roughly a mile and half down the trail when they first saw the […]

A few days ago I mentioned how impressed we were to see the amount of snow still down in the southern part of Yellowstone over the past few days.  South of Old Faithful bison were still choosing the road to mosey. Looking at today’s snowpack maps from NOHRSC there’s still a hell of a lot […]

Yellowstone National Park opened yesterday for snowcoach and snowmobile traffic.  Lets hope its another winter like the one pictured above, taken in West Yellowstone.  Damnation, some snow and cold sounds pretty good right now.  Down here its approaching 80 degrees again.  Damn. This is the second year of the controversial winter plan for Yellowstone, which […]