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What Sharks and Grizzly Bears Have in Common

What Sharks and Grizzly Bears Have in Common   What do sharks and grizzly bears have in common? I was living the island life in the early 70s, spearfishing, surfing and scuba diving off the coast of Guam, when my dad turned me on to a book titled The Big Sky by...

Early Exploration in Yellowstone

Early Exploration in Yellowstone   After the Civil War Americans renewed their interest in exploring parts of the West that were not mapped. Yellowstone's geography and wonders were hardly known to the government and general public in the 1860s. A group of...

Ken Sinay: Channeling John Colter

A cross between John Colter and William Clark, with a voice echoing James Earl Jones, a biologist, a beekeeper, a conservationist, Ken Sinay is one of the most passionate and colorful Yellowstone guides on the planet. Coming from a background in wildlife biology, he...

Bird Brains of Yellowstone

One winter back in the mid-ninties, I was traveling around Yellowstone in winter on snowmobiles doing sound for an NHK film crew.  At one particular stop, I believe it was Black Sand Basin, several snowmobiles were parked while their drivers were viewing the...

Jim Averitt Music Video “Saffire”

Jim Averitt Music Video “Saffire”

Jim Averitt Music Video: Sapphire Montana singer-songwriter Jim Averitt just released his new music video, Saffire, about the desires of a traveling musician, here one night and gone the next.  As is the lore and sometimes reality of a musician's love life on the...

Buck Mountain Fault, Teton Range, Wyoming

Buck Mountain Fault, Teton Range, Wyoming

Buck Mountain Fault, Teton Range, Wyoming In the summer of 1988, the year of the great Yellowstone Fires, I was engaged in my structural geology field research in the Tetons.  I spent some six weeks in the range that year, at times waking in the middle of the night...

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