Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Field Trip
October 11 – 16, 2017
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
6:00 am Departure for Yellowstone
Morning and Afternoon Stops:
Bismarck
Painted Canyon Overlook
Beach (refuel)
Miles City (lunch)
Billings (Refuel)
Livingston (grocery shopping)
7:30 pm Gardiner, Montana
Dinner after checking into the Best Western
9:00 pm First Blog Entry
Thursday, October 12, 2017
7:30 am Breakfast (Free) Lunch in the field
8:30 am Departure for Mammoth in the Park
9:00 am Meet with Travis Wyman (Elk and Grizzly Bear Management)
10:00 am Natural History of the Norris, Canyon, Hayden Valley, Yellowstone Lake; Look for Wapiti Wolf Pack and Grizzly and Black Bears.
4:30 pm Return to Gardiner
5:30 – 6:30 Dinner
7:00 pm Climate Change and Hiking the Trident area (most isolated area of Yellowstone National Park)
Mike and Ashea Tercek (Yellowstone Forever Building)
8:30 pm Blogging
Friday, October 13, 2017
5:30 am Breakfast on your own Lunch in the field
6:00 am Departure for the Lamar Valley
Wildlife of the Northern Range
Wolves: Canyon Jct. Pack
Lamar Pack
Others?
Moose
Bison
Mountain Goats
Elk
Grizzly Bears
Meet up with Rick McKintyre (in the field) brief talk on the wolves, Telemetry, and his monitoring of the wolves.
3:00 pm Return and/or soak in the Boiling River
5:00 pm Time on your own in Gardiner
9:00 pm Blogging
Saturday, October 14, 2017 (lunch in the field)
7:00 am Return to the Lamar Valley,
Wildlife of the Northern Range
Day Hike in the Lamar Valley
3:00 pm Meet up with Doug McLoughlin (in the field). Doug is a photographer and
wolfwatcher for Yellowstone Reports.
4:00 pm Gardiner
7:30 pm Blogging
Sunday, October 15, 2017 Breakfast free (Lunch in the field)
7:30 am Depart for geyser basins, lunch in the field
Norris, Lower Geyser Basin, Middle Geyser Basin, Upper Geyser Basin.
Grand Prismatic
Old Faithful
6:00 pm Arrival into Gardiner
Monday, October 16, 2017
7:00 – 7:30 am Breakfast (free)
8:00 am Departure for VCSU
9:00 pm Arrival time in Valley City