News & More
Celebrate Yellowstone’s 150th Anniversary This Summer
Yellowstone National Park’s 150th anniversary celebrates the birth of the world’s first national park, setting the stage for others of its kind around the globe.
Good Nature Travel Blog
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Travel Tips
9 Top Wildlife Experiences in Yellowstone National Park
When it comes to Yellowstone National Park, it’s all about the numbers. Established in 1872 as America’s first national park and often called an American Serengeti, Yellowstone shelters one of the largest concentrations of wildlife in the contiguous United States, including 300 species of birds and 67 species of mammals.
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Nature & Wildlife
We’re Causing Wildlife to Shape-Shift
Today, more than half of the global population—55 percent, or 4.2 billion inhabitants—live in cities. By 2050, two-thirds of the world’s people are expected to reside in urban areas. And when we talk about our increasingly metropolitan lifestyles, we usually speak in terms of how they’re changing our culture and our health.
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Asia & The Pacific
Christmas 2021: Coexisting with Cats, an India Story
In a few days, many of you will be celebrating Christmas or another religious holiday.
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Travel Tales
Traveler Story: Mammoth Springs, Moose and More in Yellowstone
“This was my second trip with Nat Hab and the first time I had ventured to choose the photo itinerary. I thought I would be out of my depth, teaming up with “photo experts.” I consider myself to be an “okay” photographer but certainly no expert.
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Conservation
Bison Can’t Leave Yellowstone
Ask anyone who has ever visited Yellowstone National Park (YNP) what they remember about their experience, and the response will inevitably include bison. As North America’s largest terrestrial animal, bison (Bison bison), often endearingly called buffalo, certainly leave an impression. Enormous and thundering beasts, bison have been declared the national mammal of the United States.
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Nature & Wildlife
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Winter in Yellowstone
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a snow-covered bison in Montana! Photographer Rex Arney took this classic bison image in Yellowstone National Park. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
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Nature & Wildlife
Elk Use Changing Environmental Signs to Time Migrations
On a recent Natural Habitat Adventures fall trip to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, my guide talked about a common question he gets from visitors who come to see the National Elk Refuge at this time of year. “Where are all the elk?” they typically ask.
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Travel Tales
No Time to Waste: The World’s First Zero Waste Adventure
Natural Habitat Adventures and WWF educate and inspire travelers to adopt lifelong habits to save treasured natural spaces and species. The light yellow curtain of early morning sunlight poured onto the still-dewy grasses in Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley.
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Nature & Wildlife
The Wonder of Wolf Watching
There are so many positive reasons why humans seek out animals. Often, we just want to get a glimpse into their lives, to watch their bodies move across the landscape, to see how they struggle and how they thrive in nature.
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Nature & Wildlife
Grasslands: A Lot More Than Just Flyover Country
Across the world, they go by many names: downs, prairies, pampas, rangelands, steppes, savannas or velds. But what all of these landscapes have in common is that grass is their naturally dominant vegetation.
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Travel Tales
Traveler Story: Wolves of the Lamar Valley and Beyond
Nat Hab travelers Lois O. Gray and Kay Gilmour recently journeyed on our Hidden Yellowstone Photo Safari and shared details of their encounters with wolves in the Lamar Valley and other wildlife along the way.