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From Yellowstone to Yosemite: My Top Ten Wildlife Encounters of 2011
As a child who grew up reading Ranger Rick and watching Wild Kingdom, I cherish any wildlife I encounter. I’ve been lucky enough to live in Yellowstone, where I viewed charismatic mega-fauna on a daily basis, and now live near… Read more >
VIDEO: First Bison Encounter Inspires Lifelong Support
Memorable encounter with Yellowstone wildlife galvanizes support for NWF’s Adopt-a-Wildlife-Acre program. Read more >
Eulogy for a Wolf: A Happy Ending for Yellowstone’s 495M
A few years ago, a friend of mine sponsored a radio-tracking collar through the Yellowstone Park Foundation in my name for the Yellowstone wolf project. I was delighted to receive a letter and photo informing me that my collar had… Read more >
Three Things to Learn from Bison Conservation
The bison, or American buffalo, roamed the plains and woodlands of North America tens of thousands of years ago. It was a contemporary of saber-toothed cats, woolly mammoths and woolly rhinos but was a better survivor: the bison is the largest… Read more >
Changing Times for the Gray Wolf
Political, social and cultural progress on conservation issues are often slow in arriving, but when seen from atop the arc of time, the progress conservationists have made on some issues is just amazing. Below are comments that reflect how attitudes… Read more >
Help Halt Drilling on Crucial Moose Habitat
If you’ve never had the chance to venture out west to Yellowstone National Park, let me describe a scene for you: mountains covered by lodgepole pines, a place where rivers cut deep canyons across the land and quiet mornings interrupted… Read more >
Know Your NWF: The Corridor Connection
When 19th-century American conservationists first set out to protect wild places, they created parks, national forests and various types of wildlife sanctuaries in relatively small patches. Despite their best intentions, few wildlife advocates had the foresight to see that these… Read more >
NWF’s Larry Schweiger Visits Yellowstone
What do you do if it’s 38 below zero outside? If you’re National Wildlife Federation President & CEO Larry Schweiger, you head out in Yellowstone National Park to get some spectacular wildlife shots. Read more >
