Tuesday, May 26, 2009

The Hunt




Our guide Carl is a lifelong naturalist from British Columbia who had a wealth of experience he shared with us the 20 hours we had together.  He has worked as a fire jumper, a scuba diving instructor and guide, he was with the Fish and Game Department working with bears, led safari’s in Africa for three years and, more recently, enjoyed time working on the wolf project.  He has a close relationship with the large number of park rangers and volunteers who were in the park daily.  These people called or radioed him when there was animal behavior to observe and we would load up and head to our destination.  Once there, Carl would set up three powerful field scopes for the nine of us to share in addition to the high quality binoculars given to each of us in the beginning.  We observed bison, bear, wolf packs, elk, prawn horn, ground squirrels, prairie dogs, badgers, marmut, moose, coyote, and many more animals as well as birds of all kinds.  Amazing!