Of Wolves and Dogs and Yellowstone National Park
Kirsty has a great interest in wolves. She regularly gives talks on the Evolution of the Modern Dog and other related topics. She has been out to Bavaria on several occasions. She has been fortunate enough to study with Ray Coppinger and the late Erik Zimen. Kirsty has now written a course on Wolf Behaviour and Ecology and together with Professor Peter Neville, tutors it.
This is accredited to the Open College Network and can be accessed through www.coape.org and scroll down to C06. She is also co-tutor on the Qualifying Entry Course for students interested in studying Companion Animal Behaviour which can be found through the same website. The other course she has written and co-tutors with Jo Scott is Petsitters. Course No. CD02 on the COAPE website. Over the years she has had to use pet sitters on many occasions and feels she now knows what is needed in this growing market.
Each year Kirsty and Alan travel out to Yellowstone National Park to continue studying the wolves, their impact on the ecology of the area and their behaviour. In 2006 they found a beautiful house near Yellowstone National Park and bought it. Now they have a base close to the wolves and other wildlife - sometimes right on their doorstep! See the page on Silver Peaks for more information on the house and how you can rent it for a holiday of a lifetime. Having a great team in the UK means that business and home runs on smoothly in their absence.
Winter Wolf Discovery in Yellowstone National Park
Every February we offer a very special adventure for parties of 6 to 10. We will arrange your flights, travel arrangements in USA, accommodation and tours over a ten day plus travelling time trip of a lifetime. We work closely with the Yellowstone Association Institute to make sure that we explore Yellowstone in the winter, observing wolves and watching their behaviour. We will watch their interaction with other wildlife in the Park. Yellowstone National Park is a magical place at any time of the year but winter time turns it into a wonderland. We will take you dog sledding for a day in the Absaroka Mountains. You will have a chance to 'mush'. We can adapt this once in a lifetime experience to include any appropriate requests from your group. Please contact us for more information.
If you are looking for trips to Yellowstone for you or a group of less than 6 then please go to www.wolftracker.com . Here you will meet our friends Nathan Varley and Linda Thurston. Both work and live at Yellowstone and offer wildlife tours in Yellowstone all year around.
We normally see wolves whenever we go looking for them. It is however important to remember that this is a truly wild environment and sometimes they are hard to find. We have seen wolves on every trip to Yellowstone National Park and have been fortunate enough to watch some incredible wolf behaviour.
Yellowstone National Park has so many diverse points of interest that it soon weaves its magic around us all and though most of us have gone looking purely for the wolves we soon become aware that the wolves are just a part of an enormous fascinating unique environment. Yellowstone National Park covers some 2 million acres of land and is a wild environment. The land is not owned or farmed in any way. There are not a great number of roads. Temperatures can be as low as -20c but unlike the UK it is a dry cold. These trips are very popular and can book up a year in advance. You can see wolves in wildlife parks and zoos but if you want to see them in the wild and acting in a completely natural way the only place you can do this is at Yellowstone National Park.
If your interest is also in walking then perhaps our Autumn trips to Yellowstone National Park would be of interest to you. The important point to remember though it is harder to see wolves and we may not see them at all but we may well see the bears. For our Autumn trips (the same number of people) we base ourselves at Roosevelt Rendezvous, again with the Yellowstone Association Institute, in rustic cabins.
If you would like further information on either of the above trips then please contact us.
