Conservation
If you’ve got a wildlife and nature enthusiast on your holiday shopping list—and I’m sure you do if you’re reading this article—I have the perfect gift idea for you. It isn’t expensive, it’s beautiful, it’s easy to purchase and send, and it quite probably helps conserve your best-loved wild place and/or favorite wildlife species.
Nature & Wildlife
As many as 900 Yellowstone National Park American bison may be exterminated in winter 2014-2015. It’s estimated that our nation’s last, pure herd of free-ranging bison that have managed to continuously live on their native grounds currently numbers at 4,900. That means that a fifth of this near-threatened species is soon to be killed.
Nature & Wildlife
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…
Travel Tales
Being close enough to view a grizzly bear in the wild inspires feelings of awe and nostalgia: wonder at their size and power, and a longing for an America that once was—when the land was wild and pristine, and we newcomers were still adventurers exploring something big and far beyond anything else we had…
Nature & Wildlife
By Holly Glessner, Air Travel Specialist If you’re like me, then you’ve often thought about the many creatures that roam the expansive forest that surrounds you while hiking the trails in our beautiful national parks. One of my favorite places to hike is Glacier National Park.
