We were cautioned by a ranger in the road not to stop the car, but were allowed to slow it down. Visible among the pine trees for a moment was a mother grizzly followed by two cubs, their silver fur glinting in the sun. I had to blink to believe I really saw them.
Another animal I’d not seen before was the bighorn sheep. We found some over by Roosevelt Lodge (Tower Falls), in the same area TR did in his visit in 1903.
Bison are beautiful. The babies like to jump and dance in the evening.
Guess you’re never too young to play!
A raven drops in to see the black wolf the photographers are lined up for in Lamar Valley.
Iconic elk rest peacefully on ledges of iconic Mammoth Hot Springs.
After an expedition to Yellowstone in 1870 escorted by Captain Doane from Fort Ellis in Montana, members of Congress and President Ulysses S. Grant designated it as our first national park. The people of the United States would now be able to experience nature in its pristine form, and look forward to their grandchildren doing the same.
In 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt made Pelican Island off the coast of Florida a national bird preserve, rapidly setting aside more than 230 million acres for national parks and monuments. In 1906 the Antiquities Act which he and Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot plotted swiped treasure from under the noses of miners, loggers and developers before they could profit from it. TR said the land could never be improved upon.
This Spring, the Antiquities Act is being tampered with. Of course, they wouldn’t dare take away any land already preserved just to make someone richer.
Would they?
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Look at these websites for a discussion of recent actions on the Antiquities Act of 1906:
https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=DOI-2017-0002-0001
http://www.americanforests.org/blog/new-executive-order-antiquities-act-spell-disaster-fore
The Amazing Bird Collection 
I love your photos!! And I love Yellowstone. One big observation I have, after visiting both Yellowstone and Denali National Park in the past few years, is how much closer you are to the wildlife in Yellowstone. In Denali, most animals were specks, thousands of yards away. How neat it must be to compare parts of your visit to TR’s!
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