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a few photos i took over the weekend in ynp
if the moderator wants to move these to another
listing.....
hope all of you enjoy

Love the bison pic.

Fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

Great photos!

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Originally posted by GrayDuck:
Love the bison pic.

Yeah, he is quite content just lounging there.

Ken....

ravenr - I'm sure that you noticed the major downturn in the elk population while you were there.
Also, I would love to know just where in the park you caught up with the wolf?
Thanks for the posting!

thanks for all the kind words,i do love sharing my photos,almost as much as taking them.
7xpress,its hard not to notice the missing 13,000 elk in the nortern area of ynp
and there is/was a band of 9 bighorn rams i've seen for the past 6 yrs that have been whittled down to the remaining 1.
i took the photo of the wolf in the blacktail area,he had been harassing a cow elk w/ calf
hid out in the sage.
i snapped a couple pictures at 60 yds rite before deciding there needed to be more rocks in the area he was standing

great pics.

does anyone know what (if anything) is being done to allow the elk herd to increase in numbers? or maybe it is at the level the biologist feels is sustainable. just wondering.

ravenr- Thanks for posting I enjoyed the pics as well...YNP is on my to do list...

Do you think I'd be okay with my Canon 40D 400/5.6L prime and XTi 70-200/f4L IS....

Just wondering?

Any recommendations...

LBGuy wrote:

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does anyone know what (if anything) is being done to allow the elk herd to increase in numbers? or maybe it is at the level the biologist feels is sustainable. just wondering.

What needs to be done is get the WOLVES on a manageable population level and have officials STOP listening to the PETA hype.

Where wolves has regained a stonghold, other species are suffering and in a rapid state of population decline.

Open season on wolves would help a good bit...

We spent 10 days straight trying to get an unofficial "game count" in YNP last summer. It was based on my own observations of counting critters in the park since 1972. Buffalo, the most successful of the parks critters (not counting the wolves) is probably down about 1/3. Other people were jealous because we actually saw a moose. We could account for but 150 head of elk and all were located close to population centers where there were significant numbers of campers and facilities. Even so, we did watch a wolf chasing a cow elk within 200 yards of the Madison campground. He only broke it off because we kinda intercepted the chase by accident. Also watched wolves break up a herd of Antelope in Lamar Valley in an unsuccessful attempt at lunch. With an abundance of game in front of them, the wolves do seem to be picky about what they eat after they kill. One place in Idaho we found indications that they only ate about 1/5 of what they initially killed at an elk wintering area.
It seems to me that we will be hard put to teach them to "clean up their plate" before going back for seconds.
If you wanted to see lots of animals during your Yellowstone vacation, you are about 15 years too late.
- Just another tourists' view of their government at work.

the wolf thing is starting to come to a head in ynp also,last yr there were 60+ wolf on wolf kills in the northern area.
makes sense,as the #s of prey animals decline and wolf pops go up the packs are ranging farther into other packs territory to hunt,
and the conflict begins.
what i see happening is a crash in the wolf pops
after they eat themselves out of house and home. the griz pop will follow as they have been cleaning up the wolf kills for the past 14 yrs and getting free meals so to speak.
folks in the wolf recovery area can attest to the "lightly eaten" wolf kills.
i have seen cow elk that have had less than 15lbs of meat eaten off them along with the
calf fetus and that is all a pack of 5 wolves
consumed.
we in cody wy lost a strong moose pop shortly after the wolves came and as of this yr we are faced with 4 areas in sunlight and crandall
religated down to limited quota elk areas instead of the otc licenses.
they need to be managed like any other species if we are to have any wildlife left.
ynp spouts the sucess of wolves and the 35+ million that wolf watchers are spending,
i hope they have been saving those millions cause when the wildlife in the park collapse
they are going to need it,nobody will be visiting then.
LATE_BLOOMER i know very little of cameras and such and took my photos with a Canon digital video camera HD model hv20
i would venture a guess that as to the close distance you can see and photograph critters in ynp that any quality camera would suffice.
DO NOT approach the buffalo !!!

Uncle Joe,

Nice pix! I really love the big buffalo in the sage. Hey! Nice black bear on the other thread for a skinny cowboy.

Mark