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Yellowstone Lake

editor — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 03:30:00 +0000

No writer has better described Yellowstone Lake than did renowned naturalist John Muir in an Atlantic Monthly article of 1898: It is about twenty miles long and fifteen wide, and lies at a height of nearly 8000 feet above the level of the sea, amid dense black forests and snowy mountains. Around its winding, wavering shores, closely forested and picturesquely varied with promontories and bays, the distance is more than 100 miles_ It is full of trout, and a vast multitude of birds swans, pelicans, geese, ducks, cranes, herons, curlews, plovers, snipe feed in it and upon its shores; and

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Along the shores of Yellowstone Lake

editor — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 09:36:00 +0000

The American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorynchos) can be 5 feet (1.5 m) long and have a wingspan of 9 feet (2.7 m). Park Service regulations protect the pelican’s nesting place (the lake’s Molly Islands) from approach by any watercraft. A much smaller fish-eating bird is the osprey (Pandion hali-aetus). Its body is black or brown above and white below, with a black patch under the crook of its wing and powerful talons for catching fish. One can see osprey nests on high pillars or tall pines in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The 2003 Frank Island fire destroyed many

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