2011

When clownfish Marlin sets out to find Nemo he has a great deal easier time of it than we do in our quest to find the Cougar Creek...

As I discovered this past summer, there are exciting and exhilarating perks to being an interpretive ranger in our first national park. For nearly five months I lived...

Yesterday morning I said farewell for now to Yellowstone. I hugged final goodbyes to Grant Village hiking buddies, finished cramming my belongings into and onto my car, and...

The summer season of my Yellowstone interpretive park rangerosity has come and gone, but the memory of our fun, fishy final backpack to the Shoshone Lake patrol cabin...

I heard a song on the radio the other day – “Time has come today” by the Chambers Brothers. What a rocker that was, back in 1968! I...

This week I took a leisurely walk in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve near my home in southwestern Utah and noticed scores of small animal tracks that had...

Time flies! The end of my summer season at Yellowstone is a mere four days away. Today was my final morning working the visitor center desk at Grant...

Upon consideration, you might think that with a name like Harlequin Lake there would at least be some harlequin ducks floating around. Au contraire, my friends! Harlequin Lake,...

This summer, quite a few visitors to Yellowstone have walked up to the Grant Village visitor center desk and asked me the same question. “Can you tell me...

Working as a seasonal interpretive ranger at Yellowstone, I get asked a lot of the same questions over and over. One of the most frequent inquiries (besides “What...