Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Nature & Wildlife

    New Snowmobile Lottery System: Will It Alter Yellowstone’s Winter Solitude?

    Sep 16, 2014 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    While anyone who has traveled to Yellowstone National Park knows that the sights alone are enough to take your breath away, I’m always struck by how unprepared I am for what I would describe as the “timeless sounds” of Yellowstone: the howls of wolves on the wind, the yips of coyotes on the hills…

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Bam Bam the Ram: Is Feeding Wildlife Ever OK?

    Jul 22, 2014 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    When we feed wild animals, the result can be just as lethal as if we had poisoned them. But is feeding wild animals always wrong?

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Does Our Language Regarding Wolves and Bears Shape Our Attitudes?

    Jun 24, 2014 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    In Wisconsin where I live, we call three large predators “neighbors”: the black bear, the gray wolf and the occasional mountain lion. Because of this, you might think that Wisconsinites’ attitudes toward all three animals would be similar.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Urban Coyotes: Pet Threats or Ecosystem Equalizers?

    Jun 17, 2014 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    No matter where you live—whether in a developed, suburban district or a woodsy, semirural area—you most likely have coyote neighbors. Although you may have never seen them, coyotes are now a fact of life in nearly every American city.

  • Travel Tips

    The Funniest Bad Yelp Reviews of National Parks

    Apr 10, 2014 · Emily Deemer

    In honor of National Parks Week, we wanted to share an article from Adventure Journal that had our office roaring with laughter last week: The 17 Best Bad Reviews of National Parks on Yelp. How could someone give anything less than a stellar review of America’s most beautiful natural treasures, you ask?

  • Travel Tales

    Nat Hab Exclusive: Alone with the last remaining wolves of the Lamar Canyon Pack

    Mar 10, 2014 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    Guest post by NHA guide, biologist, and photographer Sean Beckett The interior of Yellowstone is inaccessible in the winter without a snowmobile or a snow coach. Opting against the frigid and blustery snowmobiles, we fired up two bombardier snow coaches and headed from the relatively mild Jackson Hole north into a blizzard.

  • Nature Photography

    Yellowstone Photography Tour: Taking on What’s Tough

    Feb 4, 2014 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    There are probably as many different reasons to travel as there are people traveling, but some common motives include getting away for a while from a normal routine, to relax, or to see a place you’ve always felt a connection to or dreamed about.

  • Videos

    Videos: Dogs React to Recorded Wolf Howls

    Jan 28, 2014 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Howling is just one of many forms of vocal communication used by canines. Even though they may bark, growl, moan, snarl, whimper, whine, woof and yelp a lot more often than they howl, it is often the howl that we associate them with the most often, especially when thinking of wolves.

  • Nature Photography

    Winter in Yellowstone: Why wildlife sees their glasses half-full

    Jan 20, 2014 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    A guest post by NHA guide, biologist, and photographer Sean Beckett In the middle of January it is a challenge to remember summer in Yellowstone National Park. Those sunny afternoons floating down the river in an inner tube, counting birds and otters along the shore, are now just a dream.