This Week in Yellowstone National Park
Oct 1, 2026 · 43 min · 13 segments
This week in Yellowstone National Park, from October 1st to October 7th, 2026, I’ll talk about why October is a rad time to be in the park, discuss how September snow in the park is a thing of the…
This week I'm going to talk about the wolf hunt in Montana, especially that northern range north of the park.
One wolf was slated to be taken in that region for hunting, and one wolf was taken.
So that's good news.
Wolf hunts are still going on all over the West right now.
So if you want more information on that, I can send you some links.
I'm not going to talk about it too much because, you know, anytime I talk about things like this, I get depressed.
So I'm just not going to talk about it much because the information's out there.
Like I said, if you want links, reach out to me.
Also, some of you have reached out to me to talk about the bison that has been having a neurological issue.
Uh, there's an article, I will link it in the show notes if I remember, that's written about it.
I don't know much about it.
And also, it's one of those things that I don't really like to talk about a lot of individual animals in the park because nature is hard.
There are things that happen every day in the park that are really sad, depending on what side that you're on.
You know, this year I knew of a nest in the backcountry of some sandhill cranes.
I looked at it one day.
The eggs were there.
The sandhill crane parents were taking turns sitting on the eggs.
Came back a cou-couple days later, and it looked like coyotes had eaten the eggs and destroyed the nest.
And the two sandhill cranes were just walking around really sad.
Now, the bison that was having the neurological issues, more than likely, is a very sad story, but injuries happen.
Weird things happen in nature.
The good news is that when something like that happens, I mean, it's good with the quotation marks around it, but when things like that happen in the park, something's probably going to eat it, and it will be put out of its misery quick.
The park will not and does not and should not interfere with things like this in nature.
This week I'm going to talk about the wolf hunt in Montana, especially that northern range north of the park.
One wolf was slated to be taken in that region for hunting, and one wolf was taken.
So that's good news.
Wolf hunts are still going on all over the West right now.
So if you want more information on that, I can send you some links.
I'm not going to talk about it too much because, you know, anytime I talk about things like this, I get depressed.
So I'm just not going to talk about it much because the information's out there.
Like I said, if you want links, reach out to me.
Also, some of you have reached out to me to talk about the bison that has been having a neurological issue.
Uh, there's an article, I will link it in the show notes if I remember, that's written about it.
I don't know much about it.
And also, it's one of those things that I don't really like to talk about a lot of individual animals in the park because nature is hard.
There are things that happen every day in the park that are really sad, depending on what side that you're on.
You know, this year I knew of a nest in the backcountry of some sandhill cranes.
I looked at it one day.
The eggs were there.
The sandhill crane parents were taking turns sitting on the eggs.
Came back a cou-couple days later, and it looked like coyotes had eaten the eggs and destroyed the nest.
And the two sandhill cranes were just walking around really sad.
Now, the bison that was having the neurological issues, more than likely, is a very sad story, but injuries happen.
Weird things happen in nature.
The good news is that when something like that happens, I mean, it's good with the quotation marks around it, but when things like that happen in the park, something's probably going to eat it, and it will be put out of its misery quick.
The park will not and does not and should not interfere with things like this in nature.
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