in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book he
has a quote that says for the strength
of the pack is the wolf and the strength
of the wolf is the pack yellowstone
lives and breathes wolves in the last 20
years I wanted to photograph them and
bring that to light this is my first
project with National Geographic I’d
been in Yellowstone for several months
my role was solely as Nick Nichols
assistant he suggested I pick up the
wolf issue in Yellowstone and picked up
wild wolves inside the park
up until the mid-80s biologists thought
that ecosystems were built from the
bottom up from the vegetation all the
way up through the insects and all the
way up through the layers and that the
top predators just kind of fed off of
the extras Yellowstone has given the
world an opportunity to see that it’s
very much on both sides that an apex
predator is a key part of the landscape
we were able to partner with the parks
biologists to have this you know mutual
relationship with them where we could
get images for them that they had never
seen before and try to capture behaviors
that they had never seen before
my favorite photograph from this project
is definitely three wolves feeding on a
bison carcass along the Yellowstone
River this was a scene that we were able
to kind of pull the curtain back on
Yellowstone and the Wolves near the
situation just it came together one of
the primary tools in wildlife
photography that I use is camera traps
and the goal of camera traps is fairly
simple it’s to give the viewer an
intimate experience with an animal that
you can’t get any other way oftentimes
when you put a camera on a carcass you
can’t be there you have to put the
camera set it up and leave and walk away
and hope for the best
and the bear is probably going to wreck
your camera that’s like–that’s that’s
pretty much a given on this project but
you could get a couple images that allow
you to open up this world of the wolves
that people had never seen before
if there’s one thing that people could
take away from the photographs that I’ve
created of wolves in Yellowstone I’d say
it’s the wolves have an integral part of
the ecosystem in Yellowstone all
throughout their home range they control
the big grazers they control the elk and
the Bison and the deer the animals are
healthier throughout and the wolf has
just given balance to the entire
ecosystem political boundaries mean
nothing to nature
it’s a permeable boundary and they just
move back and forth as their biology
dictates
has a quote that says for the strength
of the pack is the wolf and the strength
of the wolf is the pack yellowstone
lives and breathes wolves in the last 20
years I wanted to photograph them and
bring that to light this is my first
project with National Geographic I’d
been in Yellowstone for several months
my role was solely as Nick Nichols
assistant he suggested I pick up the
wolf issue in Yellowstone and picked up
wild wolves inside the park
up until the mid-80s biologists thought
that ecosystems were built from the
bottom up from the vegetation all the
way up through the insects and all the
way up through the layers and that the
top predators just kind of fed off of
the extras Yellowstone has given the
world an opportunity to see that it’s
very much on both sides that an apex
predator is a key part of the landscape
we were able to partner with the parks
biologists to have this you know mutual
relationship with them where we could
get images for them that they had never
seen before and try to capture behaviors
that they had never seen before
my favorite photograph from this project
is definitely three wolves feeding on a
bison carcass along the Yellowstone
River this was a scene that we were able
to kind of pull the curtain back on
Yellowstone and the Wolves near the
situation just it came together one of
the primary tools in wildlife
photography that I use is camera traps
and the goal of camera traps is fairly
simple it’s to give the viewer an
intimate experience with an animal that
you can’t get any other way oftentimes
when you put a camera on a carcass you
can’t be there you have to put the
camera set it up and leave and walk away
and hope for the best
and the bear is probably going to wreck
your camera that’s like–that’s that’s
pretty much a given on this project but
you could get a couple images that allow
you to open up this world of the wolves
that people had never seen before
if there’s one thing that people could
take away from the photographs that I’ve
created of wolves in Yellowstone I’d say
it’s the wolves have an integral part of
the ecosystem in Yellowstone all
throughout their home range they control
the big grazers they control the elk and
the Bison and the deer the animals are
healthier throughout and the wolf has
just given balance to the entire
ecosystem political boundaries mean
nothing to nature
it’s a permeable boundary and they just
move back and forth as their biology
dictates
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