the codger pole
Traveling north of 60 … In Colfax, Washington, the county seat of Whitman County, we find an American treasure in the Codger Pole. The Codger Pole, a 65-foot-tall chainsaw sculpture, commemorates a 1988 high school football rematch — played fifty years after the first game, by the same participants. Colfax lost to St. John in […]
This is not the grassland you seek
The rolling wheatfields of Whitman County Washington State are in a region known as “The Palouse”
The Nursery Rocks of Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley
Rocks of granite deposited by glaciers in the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park by glaciers, are called glacial erratics, and serve as nursery rocks to Douglas fir trees.
grizzly encounter
Traveling North of 60 … We used a guide service to help us find the best wildlife shots in Yellowstone, and yesterday’s excursion came with a great grizzly encounter. Our guide spotted a grizzly sow and her two yearling cubs on a hillside to the front and high above us. They were just small dots […]
pink house preservation
The John and Bartha Moulton Historic Home on Mormon Row in the Grand Teton National Park is undergoing preservation work.
grizzly 399 and bear jams
Traveling north of sixty … Grizzly 399 was born 25 years ago in the Pilgrim Creek Area of Grand Teton National Park and is older than usual for a grizzly bear. She was given her name as a research number by the Yellowstone Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team. I understand that this particular grizzly is […]
