Lamar Valley bison/wolves overlap Yellowstone WY
— — the two animals that share the long grass.
Not only on a wall.
“Bison graze the valley floor along the Lamar River. Wolves work the edges, the river bends, the timber on the slopes above. Since the 1995 reintroduction, the two animals have shared this ground in numbers seen almost nowhere else on the continent. From the pullouts above the road, with a spotting scope at first light, the relationship reads as patience on both sides. — from the studio
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Lamar Valley sits in the northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park in Park County, Wyoming, cut by the Lamar River and walled by the Absaroka Range. The valley floor runs at about 6,500 feet of elevation. The Northeast Entrance Road traces its length from Silver Gate and Cooke City, Montana, to Tower Junction. The valley was named for L. Q. C. Lamar, U.S. Secretary of the Interior in 1885. Open grassland, riverside cottonwoods, and timbered side slopes give it the mixed habitat that supports the densest assemblage of large mammals in the contiguous United States.
Grey wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone in 1995 after a roughly seventy-year absence, with the first releases on Crystal Bench in Lamar Valley. The park now holds around ten packs at any given time, and Lamar remains the most reliable wolf-watching ground in North America. The Northern Yellowstone bison herd numbers in the low thousands and ranges through the same valley. Wolves take mostly elk, with bison calves and weakened adults as a secondary food source. Predation patterns shift sharply with snow depth, which is why the valley reads differently in February than in July.
Wolf and bison watching in Lamar runs on the first and last hours of daylight. The pullouts above the Lamar River fill with spotting scopes well before sunrise; many regulars have driven in from Gardiner or Cooke City the night before. The Northeast Entrance is open all year, which makes the valley one of the few accessible large-mammal landscapes in winter. The Park Service requires a minimum 25 yards from bison and 100 yards from wolves and bears. Cell coverage through the valley is essentially nonexistent, and most watchers prefer it that way.