The 4th and final stop of my Churchill Fellowship here in the U S of A was divided into three parts over three weeks ... actually more than that if you want to include the last two weeks of rest and relaxation but we won't for the moment.
Week one was quite conventional - hang out with staff from the Defenders of Wildlife in Ketchum, Idaho, to observe how they work with the livestock producers and the broader community to implement non-lethal wolf management techniques. Weeks two and three however, were a bit more dramatic. I had originally planned to meet two people in Montana but one had to travel interstate and I don't know what happened to the other. Soooooo ..... I adapted my itinerary to spend the week around or in Yellowstone National Park and attempted to meet as many wolf researchers as possible and who were all connected in some way or another. After I filmed the wolves cross the river to eat the bison carcass I was even lucky enough to meet the man that has made a few documentaries on the wolves in Yellowstone. I'll introduce him, everybody else that I met and their affiliations that I've listed in the video credits (actually I just realised that I didn't include Bob in the credits!) in my report.
I made the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXr5FrEHgfY for this three weeks as short as possible. Acknowledging that it is longer than the other videos, I have decided to reduce the amount of photos in this blog. I just had to post this blog before I fly back home tonight at midnight.
Thanks for watching and don't forget -
Do it d_ _ g _ style!
Peace.
bp
Community demonstration day with Defenders of Wildlife staff
Premier of The Phantom Wolves of Sun Valley in Ketchum provided some entertaining insights
Tracking some wolves with Pete and Pat from Defenders
There are many buffalo in Yellowstone National Park
It's funny when you ask people to photograph you that they always want to include your legs in the view - This is the vista from Mount Washburn fire tower
The Hayden River
Looking up at some Grand Tetons
Looking down from Grand Tetons
Snow on mountain tops up Paintbrush Canyon
Free books are good until you hear what the fee is to send them back to Australia
The sunset on my last night of the fellowship - just after I watched seven wolves playing on the valley floor.
