Jess Lee’s Photo Adventures

Naping Brown Bears

Sow and Cubs Brown Bear naping at stream side during our recent Alaska Bear Photo Tour.

The fight for what is left of the west.

I was recently ask  by one of our friends “What is wrong with the west?”  It is a great question.
What is wrong is that, “out west” is  what  is  left of America and the American ideal.  This doesn’t fit the pocket books of many in Washington DC [...]

It was a cold November morning last fall when I captured these Trumpeter swans taking off from the Snake River

Yellowstone Wolf Hunting

With the country heating up and mid August here I thought it would be nice to give you all something else to think about. Cooler weather will come and the wolves will hunt  their prey in the deep snow.
You may reconise this photo it was a National Wildlife Magazine cover a couple of years ago.

Copy and past the link for the news on re listing Wolves
Good news for all.
Maybe this will get some action of good management for the wolves.
It is not popular but my view is that, in some places wolves need more protection and in some places there are too many wolves. It is very simple, we [...]

This little one feels safe and secure while its mom feeds. I hope it doesn’t learn that Mom is not enough since the BLM’s policies can be harmful to all of the Mustanges unless we the public step in and forces good management.
Keep the pressure on so these beauties can stay safe.

Even though summer has just begun and the days are what passes for hot here in Yellowstone country there was a certain feel in the air  this morning of things to come in the next 5 or 6 weeks. I am already starting to morn the loss of summer and happily anticipate Autumn in the Rockies

This colt had been acting up playing with his mom> Like a good mom she had just corrected him with a little hoof in his butt.
I think he found the error in his ways and mom seems to be looking like “she how it is done”

Sow Grizzly and cubs from Silver Salmon Creek Photo workshop last month.

The Red Desert in Wyoming can be a very difficult place to survive if you are not prepared. It can be a long way to even get to a place to call for help. Winter can be well below zero and Summer  reaches over 100. There is not much water for fragile animals like us. [...]