#YNP

[vvnnie]

Taft Point // Instagram / Website

[sumbluespruce]

Balmy 28 in YNP

2/25/25

[richard-lengthenhancer]

[fridaybear]

'Tis Friday! Y'all made it another week, and the weekend has arrived.

Make your weekend incredible. Love each other. Be kind. Lift people up. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Black bear sow with cub, Tower Fall" by YellowstoneNPS is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.

[kelpeigh]

Blacktail Plateau

[drdadbooks]

At Home 6U8A3447 by Daniel D'Auria Via Flickr: Common folklore suggests that the red fox was an introduced species in North America, but red foxes existed in the boreal forests and western montane long before any introduction of Eurasian red foxes by European settlers. Studies of mitochondrial DNA in 2012 showed that foxes that came to populate the east and southeast were actually derived from those from Canada. There are pockets of foxes sharing Eurasian lineage in western Washington and California that likely derived from crossbreeding between native and introduced species. In short, the red fox is more at home in North America than most humans.

[daily-public-domain]

Day 265: River otter family on Gibbon River

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–This image is part of the public domain, meaning you can do anything you want with it! (you could even sell it as a shirt, poster or whatever, no need to credit it!)–

[queer-starling]

When we're dead and gone, will the mountains remember? Or just carry on, moving as slow as the forest grows

Yellowstone National Park, Summer 2024

[counteenworms]

thinking about avalanche peak again

[munchymunchkin]

[rain-droplet]

yumi would need to be physically restrained when visiting a stream

I’ve seen a few ~aesthetic~ photos of rock stacks in rivers recently and this is just a reminder that you are destroying habitat when you move rocks around in rivers and streams.

In addition to dragonfly nymphs, rocky river beds are home to lots of other larval invertebrates like damselflies, mayflies, water beetles, caddisflies, stoneflies, and a bunch of dipterans. Not to mention lots of fish and amphibians!

Plus large scale rock stacking can change the flow of a stream and lead to increased erosion.

Anyway dragonfly for admiration:

Calico pennant by nbdragonflyguy

[vvnnie]

Valley floor // Instagram / Website

[sumbluespruce]

Walk with pride

2/25/27

[saiiboat]

haiiiii guysss ^_^ its yarrow and pine hiii...... im at front with cesar say hi to me

[ca-highway49]

Last night I googled "can you open the windows in a WOB" because what's the point of having 4 walls etc. if a bear can still become curious? Google AI took the time to pop up and answer my question. It doesn't pop up every time. It said "you can't put windows in a WOB. A WOB does not exist in the world. It is either a typo or a made up word" reported it. Imagine if a human who doesn't always pipe up, piped up only to say haha idiot! Well Google is the idiot because WOB may not be a word but it exists in the world. WOB have windows. A door with a normal doorknob. An air conditioner--well fine WOB can possibly have all these amenities, it can possibly have a porch but not always.

[drdadbooks]

Hunting Gaze6U8A0563 by Daniel D'Auria Via Flickr: My first successful encounter with a pygmy owl was incredible, yet flawed. Twenty feet off the road and at shoulder height, the owl stood atop the branch of an old snag. It was hunting in a snowstorm. I wasn’t the only visitor to stop. A dozen other passers-by were mesmerized at the flurry of activity so close to the road. It might have been the best morning of a hundred visits to the park but for the fact that I had not driven alone. For on this occasion I had come with a coach and there was no place for the driver to park. A ranger showed up quickly, angrily threatening to ticket everyone involved. The hunting gaze of the owl made me feel twice as threatened. It was a great few moments and dozen snaps but I can’t help thinking of the opportunity lost.