Hello! This the latest version of my website. Here you will find trip reports (text only) from my various wildlife-watching visits to Yellowstone National Park, running from 1999 to the present - well, as recently as I've had time to edit them.
I started this website way back in 2002 with the help of my friend, Canadian photographer Doug Dance. He created it for me and taught me how to use it. Although my early trips celebrated wildlife sightings of all kinds, I was always particularly interested in seeing wolves, and over the years I became a dedicated wolf watcher. If you don't like reading about wolves, this website is probably not for you.
This Main Index page retains the "pretty colors" of the original design. There is also a "Printer Friendly" Index Page, which has identical text, in plain black and white. I mention this because over the years, some of the links to chapters in the "pretty colors" versions got broken. I am sorry about that, but all those chapters can be accessed via the "Printer Friendly" (black and white) Index page, so just switch to that version and you can keep reading whatever chapter you want.
One of these days I'll have time to fix those old links, but since I retired and became a full-time resident of Bozeman, I am lucky enough to be able to visit the Park for a week to 10 days every month, and it's easy to fall behind. I've decided to prioritize getting the reports themselves published and will tackle the broken links at some future point.
Note: starting in April 2025, I changed the format away from the original in which the emphasis is on my narrative. I was spending too much time editing and tweaking it so now I'm trying more of a list/chart style. I am still recording which wolves I see on which days but more data oriented.

Hope you still enjoy them.
I am also working on editing my original "Discovery Trip" to Yellowstone in 1998, but my notes are haphazard and I am trying to piece it together from the photos I took (when we all used film!).

Thanks for reading. Enjoy!

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Wendy's book recommendations:
FOR THE LOVE OF YELLOWSTONE - by Doug Dance (a coffee-table book) "For The Love Of Yellowstone"
THE RISE OF WOLF 8 by Rick McIntyre (the first of five YNP wolf books) "The Rise of Wolf 8"
THE REIGN OF WOLF 21 by Rick McIntyre (the second of five YNP wolf books) "The Reign of Wolf 21"
THE REDEMPTION OF WOLF 302 by Rick McIntyre (the third of five YNP wolf books) "The Redemption of Wolf 302"
THE ALPHA FEMALE WOLF (about the 06) by Rick McIntyre (the fourth of five YNP wolf books) "The Alpha Female Wolf 06"
ONCE AROUND THE SUN - IN YELLOWSTONE by Doug Dance (a coffee-table book) "Once Around The Sun - in Yellowstone"
WILD ABOUT YELLOWSTONE by Doug Dance and Bob Weselmann (a coffee-table book) "Wild About Yellowstone"
OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN by Dr. Elaine Billmire (a mystery/thriller novel set in a children's hospital) "Other People's Children"
DEATH IN YELLOWSTONE (an historical compilation) by Lee Whittlesey "Death In Yellowstone"
Books make great gifts!

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS I USE, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:

DF: Diagonal Forest (a feature east of the Slough den)

DPH: Dead Puppy Hill; the partly treed hill below the crest of Mt. Norris immediately south of Footbridge pullout. Named by coyote researchers before the 1995 wolf reintroduction. The hill has been a popular area with local wolf packs since wolves were reintroduced. It has held several coyote dens over the years, but to my knowledge, this year is the first time a wolf pack has denned on it. The Mollies chose an area on the western slope above the new growth forest, and produced at least two pups, one black and one gray, which were seen infrequently during June.

HF: Horizontal Forest (another feather east of the Slough den

HR: Hellroaring (large overlook pullout on the Blacktail)

LCW: Lamar Canyon West (pullout on the western side of Lamar Canyon) that overlooks a lot of, but not all of, the area wolves use at Slough.

MST: Marge Simpson Tree (distinctive tree in Slough Flats) In 2024, the Junctions used the meadows below and left of Marge as their August-October rendezvous.

OGR: "The OGR" Old Gardiner Road (current name for the new road hastily constructed after the 2022 flood on top of the former gravel road between Mammoth and Gardiner)

RP: Round Prairie (big meadow south of Pebble Creek campground)

SB: Soda Butte (or SBV Soda Butte Valley) where Soda Butte Creek flows between Round Prairie and its Confluence with the Lamar River)

SG: Silver Gate (small town just outside the northeast Park entrance)

SRT: Southern Round Tree (distinctive tree south of the Marge Simpson Tree)

UCG: Un-collared gray (Junction 2 yr-old bouncy male). Born to the Rescue Creek Pack, he joined the Junction Pack sometime in February 2025.

YGM: Yellow Grass Meadow (a feature east of and upslope of the Horizontal forest at Slough)

2025 FAREWELL KRISZTINA VISIT August 12-15