Jess Lee’s Photo Adventures

It is that time again. The bulls are bugling and the photographers are here. This bull was working the crowd along the Madison river while wolves and a grizzly fed on one of his kin at Canyon.

 
 
 
 
 
This is from a long series of photos of wolves hunting elk calves in Yellowstone. They were shot on one of my recent tours. The cow elk is trying to distract the wolves from where her baby was hidden. Once she allowed the wolves to chase her into the Yellowstone river. A couple of times [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This morning I received a call from Dan Kaiser a member of my recently completed Memorial day tour letting me know that 2 gray wolves and a black were feeding on a kill just west of Canyon junction. Dan has some great images.
While on my tour we had begun seeing these wolves following the same paths [...]

 
 
 
 
 Spring has actually arrived. Yep it is true, we now have mud. We also have bears, wolves, Bison calves and lots of dead Bison.
As I may have mentioned we don’t have very many Bison calves. There were many still births and Bison still falling over dayly from starvation. As you can see from the photo [...]

As you can see the park service has allowed us to enter their park again. After having the roads open for the park services private use for the past 6 weeks we are again allow to visit.
OK off the soapbox. Sure there are things happening in Yellowstone but this early in the season is usually not [...]

Actually this is more shameless self promotion rather than news. The above is a photo of mine that will be on the back cover of the Spring 08 Defenders Magazine.
The article that this image promotes has some interesting thought about the delisting of wolves if you get a chance read it and weep.