Established in 1872, Yellowstone is America s first national park and a global destination. To this day, Yellowstone remains one of the world s most popular destinations. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem spans almost 3,500 miles, and extends into parts of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, also making it one of the largest national parks in the United States. Grand Teton National Park, home of the majestic mountain range, was preserved as a national park in 1929. Since then, interest in the neighbour parks has grown dramatically, and today more than seven million people visit the two parks annually. This book offers stunning photographs of every corner of the 2.2 million acres that make up these parks, including such treasures as Lake Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River, Old Faithful, and the Snake and Yellowstone Rivers, as well as the wide plains of the Lamar Valley North America s equivalent of the African Serengeti. Yellowstone sits at the heart of the only bioregion in the Lower 48 states that still contains all of the free-roaming mammals that were present before the arrival of Europeans on the North American continent: wolves, elk, bison, grizzlies, and countless species of birds. For years, Thomas D. Mangelsen has been asked why he had never devoted a book singularly to Yellowstone and his reply was always, I am waiting for the right moment, and I want a collection worthy of Yellowstone s celebration. With Seasons of Yellowstone, the moment has arrived.
An intimate view into the lives of this celebrated bear family that draws thousands to Yellowstone each year hoping for even a glimpse.
The most famous population of grizzly bears in the world lives in the ecosystem that encompasses Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, and the most visible queen of all has been Jackson Hole Grizzly 399. During her long life, with cubs at her side, she has navigated the intersection between wilderness and people. Her harrowing journey has changed the way tens of millions of people around the globe think of both grizzlies and conservation.
Over the past two decades, legendary nature photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen has been tracking Grizzly 399 and her cubs, amassing more than one million photos along the way. Together with conservation writer Todd Wilkinson, Mangelsen returns with a new, long-awaited volume that brings the importance of 399 and the plight of American grizzlies into focus in a way that will move your heart and inspire you to join the army of advocates who want to keep this region of public lands, which belongs to all of us, forever wild.
