Browsing all posts tagged with Yellowstone.

Wolverine Listing Decision Made

Monday, December 13th, 2010 | Comments Off

Dependent on deep snowpack for denning, the wolverine (Gulo gulo) is a climate sensitive species.

Yellowstone Park Fire 2009 (1:04)

Monday, February 1st, 2010 | Comments Off

Two Hundred Foot Flames! This short video is a sample of the Yellowstone Fire footage shot last September.

Yellowstone Fire Pics

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 | Comments Off

I’m finally posting some pics from the Yellowstone fire.  This fire burned slowly at first, but finally hit some lodgepole stands that hadn’t burned in ~150 years.  Once it hit that, it was pushed by 20 mph winds.  This is a significant stand replacement fire, but alas, lodgepole is adapted to this.  It’s the park [...]

Grizzlies Back on the List!

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 | Comments Off

Environmental lawsuits brought by myriad organizations tend to make me uneasy, but I completely agree with the main contention of this lawsuit, which was that the impacts of climate change were not considered in the delisting and these impacts are SIGNIFICANT.  If you live in this area, as I do, you cannot deny the impacts. [...]

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