In the late 1970s, wolf biologist Diane K. Boyd tracked a lone female wolf named Kishinena in country around the North Fork of the Flathead River in Montana. As Doug Chadwick writes in his Foreward to this book, most people think wolves were first introduced in the mid-1990s in Yellowstone National Park, but by that time Diane and her colleagues had been studying them on the North Fork country, in Glacier National Park and surroundings, for well over a decade.

To mark the demise of the webcam that provided views of Yellowstone Lake since 2017, let’s take a look back the history of YVO webcams in Yellowstone National Park.

At the tops of many mountains and along numerous roads across the USA are small brass disks called benchmarks. These survey points are critical for mapping the landscape, determining boundaries, and documenting changes, and there are hundreds of them in Yellowstone National Park!

On a rocky slope in Torngat Mountains National Park in northern Labrador, a lone polar bear was splayed out on his belly on a bed of Arctic plants. He looked like a bearskin rug until he rolled lazily onto his side, lifted his head and yawned.