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Our baby elk and baby deer populations are getting hit hard by the bears again this year. Some years there are not many babies who escape the bears and live into the summer.

The bears then show up at people’s homes looking for more easy food. There are apparently no more easy baby elk to kill now.

Seeing the baby buffalo are lots of fun. We enjoy watching the inter action between the teenagers and the new borns. Lots of noise too.

We stayed overnight at a cabin on the Old Faithful geyser site (June 8-9). I opened the door of the cabin and startled two huge bison standing just a couple feet from the door. They were spooked and moved back about 30 feet. A couple of housekeeping staff were standing at the door of the cabin across from us. They yelled "Holy $hi+" and ran inside the other cabin as the bison headed their way. It was pretty exciting. We stepped back into our cabin and allowed the two spooked bison to calm down. They warily inched past our door again, then broke into a run to get away from the cabin area.

We arrived at Old Faithful on April 20th just in time to watch a big grizzly heading north (away from the visitor's center). We were too late to catch a picture as he disappeared into the brush. We saw another grizzly walking between the road and river when we departed northbound toward Madison Junction. It may have been the same bear. I did get a picture that time.