Yellowstone Scorecard

Here’s the wildlife sighting list:

  • Thousands of bison
  • Black bear
  • Grizzly bear
  • Pronghorn antelope
  • Mule deer
  • Whitetail deer
  • Bighorn sheep
  • Elk
  • Moose
  • Coyote
  • Bald eagle
  • Osprey
  • Sandhill crane
  • Hawk
  • Bufflehead duck
  • Merganser
  • Western tanager

Sometimes at night I curl up in my bed and think about those two million acres of bison bedding down for the night. Those bears curled up in their dens. Those antelopes and deer and elk and sheeps and mooses, those coyotes, wolves, and birds. Over two million acres of them. With such a small handful of roads, paths, and trails, which occasionally fill up with primates, who march past, and stop and stare, and go on, leaving the two million acres worth of creatures in peace. I’m so glad it’s out there.

Then sometimes I think about how quiet it is in my bed, with nobody marching on the ceiling above me or slamming doors to the left and right. That hotel was a real thumbs down.

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