Glacier/Waterton Lakes National Parks

Glacier National Park Entrance Sign

First International Peace Park
"Prosperity Will Bless us." Canada's Minister of Interior wrote this in 1895 when what is now Waterton Lakes National Park was established. Visiting Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park today, you can only marvel at the foresight of those who set aside these national parks when western North America still seemed boundless and wild. Yellowstone became the world's first national park in 1872. It's popularity quickly gave rise to others, including Waterton Lakes in 1895 and Glacier in 1910. Their location, adjoining one another along the International Boundary, led to further evolution of the park ideal. In 1932 the governments of Canada and the United States linked the two parks as the world's first International Peace Park.

This landscape has always been sacred to the Blackfeet, Salish, and Kootenai peoples. It remains no less sacred today for the enduring vision of peace embodied in its unique status. Two countries, two provinces, one state, and the Blackfeet people share common boundaries and stewardship. Together all of these groups protect and celebrate one of the most ecologically diverse parts of the Rocky Mountain West.

Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park represents a vision of a world in which peoples set aside their differences to work collectively in the interest of all life, for all time. This sacred place is the living embodiment of hope. Hope lives here in the recovery of animals like the wolf and trumpeter swan, eradicated in many other parts of their original North American ranges. Hope lives also in the survival of rare and sensitive creatures like the grizzly bear, lynx, bull trout, and long-toed salamander. People travel from around the world to renew their spirits in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. The global importance of this special place was reaffirmed in the 1970's with the designations of Glacier and Waterton Lakes as Biosphere Reserves.  In 1995 the International Peace Park again gained world-wide recognition when it was designated as a World Heritage Site.

Glacier National Park Geography and Location
Glacier National Park preserves over one million acres of unspoiled wilderness. More than 720 miles of trails in the park provide access to soaring peaks and verdant forests, mountain meadows and fish-filled lakes -- truly a backpacker's or hiker's paradise. Here hikers have the opportunity to leave the hectic pace of civilization far behind and seek a form of refuge in the silent grandeur of the mountains. Glacier is located in northern Montana  and is connected to Waterton Lakes National Park at the USA--Canadian border. Nature Man, his wife Alma and friends Walt and Mary visited the park in June of 2011.  Our flight from Jacksonville landed at the Glacier Park International Park in Kalispell, MT. We rented an SUV and traveled to Lake McDonald Lodge where we spent the next 3 nights. We next traveled to Rising Sun Motor Inn where we spent 3 more nights and then on to Many Glacier Inn for sadly our last 3 nights.

Logan Pass

Geology
The rock strata of Glacier National Park were laid down more than a billion years ago as sediment on the bottom of an inland sea. The oldest layer is of buff-colored Altyn limestone, with subsequent layers of greenish Appekuny argillite and reddish Grinnell argillite being deposited on top as mudstone and sandstone. Tectonic forces brought enormous pressure on the strata in this area, causing them to fold upward and eventually break. After the break, the forces continued, forcing a huge slab of rock to slide eastward a distance of 42 miles over neighboring strata. This geologic feature is known as Lewis Overthurst, and it is responsible for creating the original mountain masses in the park.

During the last great ice age, continual heavy snowfall collected in pockets and valleys and compressed under its own weight to form glaciers. These glaciers began to move downhill, pulled by the forces of gravity. As they moved, they carved the rock of the valley walls and floors, scouring deep U-shaped trenches with natural amphitheaters, or cirques, as their heads. When the glaciers retreated, they left behind piles of debris called lateral moraines (along the sides of valleys) and terminal moraines (where the foot of the glacier had been). Terminal moraines formed natural dams in many cases, creating some of the many lakes that dot the park. The action of glaciers on the mountains has resulted in horn peaks and arêtes. The action of the later, smaller glaciers has carved smaller indentations, or hanging cirques, high on the walls of the original valleys. The remnants of these later glaciers remain active in many parts of the park but are shrinking today due to global warming.

Biological Communities
Glacier National Park is a healthy, functioning system of communities that supports a wide variety of interdependent plant and animal species. At the end of the last ice age, temperatures at lower elevations began to rise. This encouraged faster-growing plants and pushed cold-weather-loving flora like relict tundra communities to higher elevations. As a result, an increase in elevation brings the hiker into communities that are very similar to those that dominate the subarctic and arctic regions. The lowlands reflect the convergence of a wide variety of plant communities--cedar-hemlock assemblages from the Pacific Northwest, grassland communities from the Great Plains, bunchgrass communities from the Great Basin, and fire-dependent lodgepole pine forests from the Rockies. The widely divergent plant communities that coexist in the park showcase a great diversity of animal species in a relatively small area.

Wildlife
Nature Man can assure you there is an abundance of "Real Nature" in Glacier National Park. Glacier is one of the few places in North America where all the native carnivores survive. Grizzly and black bears forage amid the greenery along streams and avalanche slopes or fatten on huckleberries or saskatoons. In 1986 wolves denned in the North Fork of the Flathead River for the first time in 50 years. They hunt elk and deer, especially as they gather in the valleys for winter. Cougars are widespread too, mostly at low elevations. Large predators indicate a healthy landscape with abundant prey, intact habitats and tolerant people.  Bear tracks and wolf howls offer us all hope and inspiration. So do over 250 kinds of birds--bald and golden eagles, harlequin ducks and rufous humming birds and 70 species of mammals that dwell in the park. Native bull and cutthroat trout are amoung the 25 species of native fish here.  Nature Man caught Westslope Cutthroat Trout in a mountain lake near Lake McDonald Lodge at the outflow of a mountain glacier stream. Wading in 50 degree water was necessary to get to this heavenly fishing spot but the blue feet were well worth the discomfort. Visit this place and you become part of a human community that shares and works to sustain the rich ecosystem that gives it life. Respect the wildlife and it will give you many hours of enjoyment.

Park Activities

Hiking and Backpacking
Over half of the visitors to Glacier National Park report taking a hike. That's a lot of hikers, but over 700 miles of trail provide many outstanding opportunities for both short hikes and extended backpacking trips. Hikers planning to camp overnight in Glacier's backcountry must stop at the Agpar Backcountry Office, St. Mary Visitor Center, or ranger station to obtain a backcountry permit.

Fishing

Nature Man Fishing on Avalanche Lake (MM Photo)

While no fishing license or permit is needed to fish inside Glacier National Park, it is recommended that you read and understand the park's fishing regulations.  Excellent fishing for various species of trout is available in numerous areas of the park. Pay attention to seasons, species limits, catch and release areas and  the limited areas closed to fishing.

Camping
Enjoy the crackling of a campfire and sleep under the stars in Glacier National Park. With 13 different campgrounds and approximately 1,009 sites to choose from, options are plentiful. Most campgrounds in Glacier are first-come first-served with the exception of Fish Creek, St. Mary and half of the group sites in Apgar (these can be reserved in advance).

Going-To-The-Sun-Road
One of the most amazing highlights of Glacier National Park is a drive on the Going-to-the-Sun Road. This engineering marvel spans 50 miles through the park's wild interior, winding around mountainsides and treating visitors to some of the most spectacular sights in northwest Montana. Nature Man, his wife and friends Walt and Mary traveled the entire distance down the Going-to-the-sun-road and we guarantee that it will be the best and most scenic experience of your life.  Each turn is a new mountain vista, waterfall, lush green valley and rocky peaks.

Nature Man Photography proudly brings you the following:

Barrows Golden Eye

Avalanche Lake

Moose Feeding on Willows

Westslope Cutthroat Trout

Columbian Ground Squirrel

Sunrise on the Mountain off a Lodge Room Balcony at Many Glacier Lodge

Subalpine Buttercup

Western Blue Violet

Wood Lily


MM Photo = MaryMac Photography
Thank you Mary MacNair for the use of your excellent photos.

Grand Teton National Park

Grand Teton National Park Entrance Sign

Nature Man has traveled to Grand Teton National Park twice, in 2003 and 2009. Grand Teton was established in 1929 and over the following two decades the boundaries of the park grew to encompass 484 square miles. Most visitors do not come to Grand Teton for the wildlife viewing. With bear-toothed summits as spectacular as the Teton Range, it is difficult, in fact, to pull one's eyes away from the skyscraping peaks back down to earth.  However, the Yellowstone-Teton region remains the richest wildlife preserve in the United States outside of Alaska.







Jackson, WY Airport (MM Photo)

Park Location
Grand Teton National Park is in northwestern Wyoming, just south of Yellowstone National Park. Nature Man, his wife Alma and our friends Walt and Mary flew into Jackson , WY airport in early June 2009, rented an SUV and drove the short drive to Signal Mountain Lodge on the shore of Jackson Lake in the Tetons. We recommend Jackson, WY as your entry destination for your visit to the awesome Grand Teton National Park.

Jackson Lake and Teton Range

How The Teton Range Was Formed
With no foothills to obstruct your view, the jagged peaks and broad canyons of the Teton Range rise abruptly from the broad flat valley of Jackson Hole. The views are magnificent, unusual, and conducive to wonder. Sixty to seventy-five million years ago both the valley and mountains were a vast arched block of sedimentary rock the ancient seas had deposited. Some two to thirteen million years ago, probably accompanied by earthquakes, the Teton Range began to rise. Movement of the Earth's crust along the Teton fault and other major faults caused the mountains to rise while the valley floor dropped. At the same time, and this still happens today, the valley itself slowly widened at the rate of about on foot every 100 years. Continual fault action normally would create a deep, steep-sided valley, but another geologic force, glacial erosion, also sculpted the Teton landscape. Several times massive glaciers 3,000 feet thick slowly flowed across much of the valley--eroding, transporting and depositing huge quantities of rock and glacial debris. The valley's true floor, for example, lies buried beneath 26,000 feet of boulders, cobble and gravel that form today's valley floor. Today's Teton skyline exhibits the most recent fine sculpting by smaller, mountain glaciers, which ground and transported rock from valley walls to canyon mouths. These moraines hold back the small lakes at the foot of the range.

Mule Deer

Wildlife
Between the lush riparian corridor of the Snake River, the jeweled lakes at the foot of the Tetons and the carpet of sagebrush spilling east toward the Gros Ventre mountains, Grand Teton is a national park with exceptional opportunities for you Nature Lovers. The Oxbow Bend along the Snake River west of Moran is the premier wildlife watching area in Grand Teton. Here you can see bald eagles, moose, elk, river otter, beaver, bear, a variety of wading birds and songbirds and occasionally coyotes, among other species. While not officially part of  Grand Teton National Park, the 24,700-acre National Elk Refuge, located between the national park and the town of Jackson, hosts a remarkable gathering of Elk during the winter, but during the rest of the year you may also see bison, coyotes, wolves, bears, badgers, trumpeter swans, white pelicans, sandhill cranes, golden eagles and other raptors. We visited the Elk refuge in 2009 and witnessed many of the species listed.

Natural Communities Color the Park's Scenery:


Alpine

Teton Peaks

Alpine communities are harsh habitats often the color of bare rock. Elevation, long hard winters and brief summers challenge life above the treeline. Lichens cling to rocks; phlox and moss campion resist wind and cold, growing as mats snuggled close to scant soil. Flowers emit unpleasant odors to lure flies to pollinate them. Insects attract white-crowned sparrows and rosy finches. Tiny pikas in summer dry and store plants for winter. Pikas and yellow-bellied marmots watch for prairie falcons and other predators. Most alpine residents winter at lower elevations or hibernate.

Jenny Lake

Forests
Darker greens of Teton landscapes are forests, which grow where moraines and mountainsides hold water within their roots reach. In Grand Teton National Park lodgepole pine forests occur in lower elevations throughout the Teton Range. In summer, elk and mule deer seek their shade. Black and grizzly bears frequent this area searching for insects, berries and small mammals. Red squirrels live in the trees, gathering and storing cones in caches for winter. Long-tailed weasles and pine martens prey on squirrels, snow-shoe hares, deer mice and other small mammals. Colorful western tanagers fly through less dense parts of the forest canopy. Stands of Douglas fir forest grow on slopes up to 8,000 feet. On the edges of these forests ruffled grouse nest on the ground and feed on buds and insects. Great horned owls hunt the forest voles, mice and gophers. Bald eagles fish from lodgepole pines beside lakes or rivers. One interesting Nature Is Real fact: Only mature eagles have white head feathers.

Sagebrush Flats
Sagebrush flats color the landscape a silvery or gray-green. This most visible plant community covers most of the valley floor. Rocky, well-drained soils make survival difficult for most plants here, but hardy big sage, low sage, antelope bitterbrush and more than 20 species of grasses thrive. It looks barren and sparse but is quite diverse. Sage grouse use sagebrush for shelter, food and nesting areas. Arrowleaf balsamroot and lupine add spring color to the flats. Small mammals like Unita ground squirrels, white-footed deer mice and least chipmunks live here and attract many raptors like the red-tailed hawk.  Badgers may be seen digging burrows and coyotes and wolves lope across the cobbly plains. Pronghorns live here in summer but must migrate south to avoid deep winter snows. Evenings and mornings, elk herds feed on the grasses in spring, summer and fall. Where bitterbrush abounds, moose forage, especially in winter and early spring. Here birders can find western meadowlarks, sage thrashers, green-tailed towhees and vesper and Brewer's sparrows.

Wet Meadows and Wetlands
Green hues that fall between silvery sage and dark forest can show wet meadows, willow flats, or wetlands. Wet meadows and willow flats are flooded by water part of the year. A high water table and pockets of good soil make possible abundant grasses, sedges, and forbs. Many birds and small mammals eat these plants. In the West, the narrow bands of vegetation along waterways may account for more than 90 percent of an entire region's biological diversity. Wetlands around rivers, lakes and marshes share many characteristics of the neighboring aquatic community. Moose often feed in willow flats but can browse underwater for aquatic plants and dive for them in water more than 18 feet deep, staying under for nearly a  minute. Wow, this is a new one for Nature Man,  diving moose, interesting!! Unfortunately we did not witness this during our visit.

Snake River

Lakes, Ponds and Rivers
Lakes and ponds dot the landscape with shades of blue. Streams and rivers are reflected as ribbons of blue and silver. Snake River tributaries drain the mountains around Jackson Hole. Stream banks, floodplains, lakes and ponds are rich habitat for wildlife. Snake River float trips, are the best way to see the park's great variety of wildlife. This wildlife diversity was abundant when Nature Man's party took a float trip down the Snake River. Native cutthroat trout, rainbow trout and other fish are crucial food for bald eagles,  river otters and muskrats. At Oxbow Bend, you may see from land, American white pelicans, great blue    herons and trumpeter swans.  We saw them all and many other birds and animals on our trip.

Inspiration Point

Hiking and Trails
By far the best trail in Grand Teton National Park is the Cascade Canyon Trail.  Nature Man's party hiked this trail spending the better part of an entire day on this outstanding and beautiful trail with abundant wildlife and breathtaking views. Cascade Canyon lies between the Cathedral Group (Teewinot Mountain, Mount Owen and the Grand Teton) to the south and the St. John group (Symmetry Spire, Rock of Ages, etc.) to the north. It is one of the most spectacular canyons in the Teton Range. To find the trail come to the South Jenny Lake Area on the Teton Park Road in Grand Teton National Park. For a small fee, you can do as we did and ride a boat across Jenny Lake, eliminating 2.4 miles, and get to Cascade Canyon more easily and quickly. The boat leaves often throughout the day.  We took one of the first boats of the day to allow more time on the trail.  The day we hiked in early June low dark clouds were spitting snow occasionally. It was still an incredible hike.  The visitor services complex at the South Jenny Lake Area includes a visitor center, ranger station, a convenience store, restrooms and the Jenny Lake Campground.

The Cascade Canyon Trail slopes gently upward to Hidden Falls, climbs more steeply, but not too difficult a climb, to Inspiration Point, a wonderful view of Jenny Lake and the surrounding valley, then gradually rises to the forks of Cascade Canyon.  Most of the trail lies above 7,000 feet in elevation. You can hike at your own pace and, if there is not too much snow on the ground, make it to Lake Solitude.  In early June we encountered significant snow on the ground at around 5 miles in on the trail and it became too deep for us to easily hike on to Lake Solitude.  Nature Man plans to return to Grand Teton some day later in the summer and hike the Cascade Canyon Trail all the way to Lake Solitude and back (14 miles round trip if you take the boat to the trailhead). Who wants to join me?

Grand Teton has more than 200 miles of maintained trails, many lead up to canyons separating the major peaks.  Keep in mind that most trails begin at about 6,800 feet or higher so shortness of  breath can come quickly. Other great trails we hiked were String Lake Trail and Leigh Lake Trail.

When Hiking view all wildlife from a safe distance and respect  their need for space. People too close to wildlife risk serious harm when animals defend themselves or their young.

Nature Man Photography shares the following:

Jenny Lake Shuttle Boat (WW Photo)

On Early Rise on Cascade Canyon Trail

Jackson Lake

Jackson Lake

Bear Safety

MM Photo = MaryMac Photography
WW Photo = WildWalley Photography
Thank you Mary and Walt  MacNair for the use of your excellent photos.


Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park Entrance Sign

Yellowstone National Park - Worlds First
Nature Man, who has explored Yellowstone National Park on two different occasions, brings to you the worlds first national park, designated in 1872, the result of great foresight on the part of many people about our eventual need for the solace and beauty of wild places.

Yellowstone's Geography and Wildlife
Sprawling across 3,400 square miles, Yellowstone is larger than the combined states of Rhode Island and Delaware. Dotted with 10,000 geysers, hot springs, and boiling rivers, it has more rare geographical phenomena than are encompassed on the rest of the planet. Graced by senescent pine forests, thundering waterfalls, jeweled blue lakes, and peaceful, verdant valleys, Yellowstone evokes the same surreal wonderment today that it did for the first visitors ten millennia ago. The pretty scenery, however, is merely a backdrop to one of the most spectacular gatherings of wildlife anywhere on Planet Earth. During the mid 1990's, with the successful reintroduction of gray wolves, Yellowstone achieved a kind of ecological completeness that other parks in the lower 48 states cannot match. Consider jut a few of the species of Yellowstone's wildlife-watching checklist: grizzly bears and black bears, grey wolves, mountain lions, coyotes, bison, elk, pronghorn, bighorn sheep, moose, mule deer, trumpeter swans, bald eagles, peregrine falcons, river otter, and a famous namesake fish, the Yellowstone cutthroat trout.

Bull Elk

Respect Wildlife
Viewing wildlife should be done with sensitivity for the animals. Generally, if your presence causes any animal to change its behavior, you are too close. Every year, park visitors are injured and sometimes killed by wild animals that only appear tame. I highly recommend keeping a respectful distance from any animal before taking pictures.  Feeding any wildlife is illegal.

Location
Yellowstone National Park crosses the boundary of three states - Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Unlike most national parks, Yellowstone has five entrance stations. You can drive to the park from these five gateway communities - Red Lodge, Gardiner and West Yellowstone (all in Montana), or Cody and Jackson (in Wyoming). In addition, you can enter the park at the Bechler River Ranger Station in the far southwestern corner of the park, accessed from Ashton, Idaho. The roads to the park are well-maintained, but only two lanes, and during peak months often crowded in traffic, including slow-moving vehicles. You can fly into two small airports at Jackson, Wyoming, or West Yellowstone, Montana, but most park visitors fly into larger airports at Salt Lake City, Utah; Billings, or Bozeman, Montana; or Idaho Falls, Idaho.  Nature Man and his wife and their friends Walt and Mary flew into Jackson, Wyoming and traveled  the short drive through Grand Teton National Park to Yellowstone South Entrance during the first 10 days of June in 2009. We enjoyed overnight accommodations at the Signal Mountain Lodge in the extreme northern Grand Teton National Park.  Access to Yellowstone through the Southern entrance would have been easy and painless from Signal Mountain Lodge if it was not for the road construction delays that year. Nature Man highly recommends using the Jackson Airport and Lodging/Camping somewhere in Yellowstone National Park.

Visitors
More than half of the 3 million annual visitors come in July and August. In September and early October the weather is good, the visitors few and the wildlife abundant. In May and June, you can see newborn animals, but the weather may be cold, wet and even snowy. Between about November through April most park roads are closed to vehicles. During the winter season, mid-December to mid-March, Yellowstone becomes a fantasy of steam and ice; facilities are limited but sufficient. Only the road between North and Northeast Entrances stays open to cars, but snowmobiling is permitted on some groomed roads. Heated snow-coaches offer tours and give cross-country skiers access to about 50 miles of groomed trails.

Yellowstone Highlights:

Old Faithful

Geysers and Mammoth Hot Springs
Old Faithful Geyser is the world's best known geyser. Its eruption intervals have varied from 10 to 126 minutes. A main route to Old Faithful is from the south by way of Jackson, WY and the south entrance. This route passes five geyser basins--West Thumb, Upper (Old Faithful), Midway, Lower and Norris on the way to Mammoth Hot Springs. Sampling the world's largest concentration of geysers, you follow the Firehole River (my friend Walt and I employed a half-day fishing guide from Arrick's Fly Shop in West Yellowstone and each caught numerous rainbow trout on the Firehole River) and Gibbon River. A visitor Center at Old Faithful and museums at Norris tell aspects of the park's stories.

Lamar Valley

Lamar Valley

Lamar Valley, accessible all year, is winter range for elk and bison. This is a good area to look for
predators (wolves, bears, foxes and coyotes) and their prey. Tower Fall, tumbling 132 feet was named for the adjacent volcanic pinnacles. Tower Creek flows into the Yellowstone River. South from Tower Fall, as you drive up Mount Washburn, look east, downslope, into prime grizzly bear country on Antelope Creek.  To provide bears refuge this area is closed to human travel.  There is a great trail on Mount Washburn that takes you to a mountain-top observation station. The main road next crossed Dunraven Pass (8,859 feet elevation) amidst broad-topped whitebark pines and spire-shaped subalpine fir.

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Canyon Village And Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Begin your visit at the Canyon Visitor Education Center, which features exhibits on Yellowstone's supervolcano. North Rim Drive, a 2.5 mile one way road, leads to views, including Inspiration Point on a spur road. I highly recommend this short and very scenic drive. Next is the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone which plunges 1,000 feet. Hot water acting on volcanic rock created the canyon's colors. The canyon was downcut rapidly more than once, perhaps by glacial outburst floods. Grand View gives spectacular views of the canyon.

Lower Falls

Upper and Lower Yellowstone River Falls
Lookout Point affords a vista of the 308 feet Lower Falls, and a steep trail descends to a closer viewpoint.  This is a spectacular view of the Lower Falls. Back on the main road, turn left in .3 mile to view the brink of the 109 foot Upper Falls. On the main road again, go .6 mile south of South Rim Drive and cross the Chittenden Bridge to Uncle Tom's Parking Area. Trails here offer close views of the Upper and Lower Falls. South Rim Drive leads to Artist Point another classic view of the Canyon and Lower Falls. This spot is a spectacular place to take long lasting photo memories.

Hayden Valley

Hayden Valley
The road follows the Yellowstone River's meanderings across a former lakebed. Soil here permits little tree growth, and the shrub-and-grass land valley plants are used by grazing animals -- from rodents to large ungulates like elk, moose and bison -- that in turn attract  associated species, from carcass beetles and butterflies to bears, coyotes and wolves. Waterfowl, including white pelicans, are abundant in marshy areas. Stop at Mud Volcano and see the varied thermal features here.

The Yellowstone Lake Area
Near Yellowstone Lake a spur road leads to Lake Butte Overlook for a view of this huge body of water. Yellowstone Lake occupies only the southwest quarter of the Yellowstone caldera. As you drive along the lake's edge, you can see Steamboat Springs, a hot spring remnant on a line of faults or fractures in the Earth that also passes through Mary Bay and Indian Pond to the northwest. Exhibits at Fishing Bridge Visitor Center feature birds and a relief map of the lake bottom. Fishing Bridge itself spans the Yellowstone River, the lake's outlet. The bridge, closed to fishing in 1973, now offers one of the best wild trout spawning shows anywhere for most of the summer. White Pelicans feed on native cutthroat trout. 

Yellowstone Lake is North America's largest mountain lake. The lake is 20 miles long, 14 miles wide and 430 feet deep at its deepest point. It averages 140 feet deep. Average August surface temperature is 60 degrees F. Bottom temperature never rises above 42 degrees F. Swimming in discouraged even where not prohibited: such cold waters can cause potentially fatal hypothermia or hyperventilation within mere minutes.

In Summary
I can assure you your visit to Yellowstone will be a rewarding one.  Nature Is Real can be found at every corner of the park. Please be sure to be respectful of plants, animals, your National Park Property and certainly of other visitors.  Following these simple guidelines will make your visit as well as others more enjoyable.  Remember National Parks - America's Best Idea!

Nature Man Photography proudly brings you the following:

Buffalo Calf

Firehole River

Mount Washburn Observation Station



Dragon's Mouth

Lamar Valley

 

Keppler Cascades on Yellowstone River