YELLOWSTONE PARK DANGER

[jyoutz]

On my Yellowstone visit, we happened upon a "special" guided tour where the ranger took us off the regular trail. He had a sidearm, kept a whistle handy and kept banging some garbage can lids, to warn off the danger. Eye opening, to say the least... The wandering bison and elk were bigger than my little sports car. We never saw any bears.

Elk are becoming very habituated to humans

throughout the west. Here is one in it’s habitat in Northern Arizona.

 

[deserteagle71]

I've been living within 200 miles of the Long Valley Caldera on the California-Nevada border. It is very active and we get periodic news briefings of what to expect if it lets loose. Most of northern Nevada would be deeply covered in ash...life as we know it would end.

Long Valley Caldera | U.S. Geological Survey

www.usgs.gov

 

[Williy]

When I was at Yellowstone there was a young boy his mother kept calling him back by her but he didn't listen
to her and I was taking pictures of this bufflo laying down
and as the boy took a step closer I could see the bufflo was getting upset I asked the boy if he could run at 30 miles per hour he said no I told him that the bufflo cold jump up and be running at 30 miles an hour he went back to his mother.

When my wife and I were in Big Bend Texas one of the
park rangers were talking about the mountain lions and
how to protect yourself then they started talking about the
bears and he said he didn't know how you could protect
your self from the bears, I said just get the bear facts

willy

 

[Jstpssng]

sometimes the young are rejected by mother b/c handled by humans

I could be wrong, but believe this is an old wive's tale started years ago to discourage people from picking up the young. I've been charged by a cow moose and sow black bear without knowing where the babies were... neither of those were too concerned about scent.

No matter... I don't **** with the mother of any species!

 

[big bubba]

could well be. don't have facts to back up. did read an article where i think an elk or moose young calf had to be euthanized after a visitor handled the young born then rejected by mother. i do agree with you. the less human interaction, the better, regards

 

[John_Mc]

Made a difference at 1200 baud or less.... That's when all file compression came into being, before modems could some compression on the fly.
but then again why use WPM or MPH or MPG?

When I first started mucking about with computers, it was a dial up connection to a time share account on a mainframe at the Technical College across town using an acoustically coupled modem: you dialed the phone, listened for the computer to pick up, then set the phone handset in a cradle. (loud noises in the room would often disrupt communication.) The output was on a 10 CPS (characters per second) teletype machine.

Stepping up to a 110 baud modem with the TV screen as a monitor was a relief. 300 baud seemed "fast". The real winner was when 2400 baud modems came out. At last there was throughput that was faster than I could read.

 

[bdhsfz6]

On a 2008 visit to Yellowstone with family, we were in a parking area at a safe distance watching a herd of bison grazing in a nearby field. A young couple from India, who were also watching, decided they wanted to get a picture of the man petting one! The woman held the camera while the man started walking toward the herd. We yelled at them to stop, but they didn't understand English very well. It would not have gone well if my FIL hadn't grabbed the guy!

I don't understand how stupid some people are but it explains why there are so many injuries out there every year.

 

[RjCorazza]

When I first started mucking about with computers, it was a dial up connection to a time share account on a mainframe at the Technical College across town using an acoustically coupled modem: you dialed the phone, listened for the computer to pick up, then set the phone handset in a cradle. (loud noises in the room would often disrupt communication.) The output was on a 10 CPS (characters per second) teletype machine.

Stepping up to a 110 baud modem with the TV screen as a monitor was a relief. 300 baud seemed "fast". The real winner was when 2400 baud modems came out. At last there was throughput that was faster than I could read.

You were a little ahead of my early computer experience. My first modem was a 300 baud, then 1200, 2400, 9600, 14.4, and I forget the last modem speed. My landline would rarely connect at higher than 14.4.

 

[OldSchoolGirl]

could well be. don't have facts to back up. did read an article where i think an elk or moose young calf had to be euthanized after a visitor handled the young born then rejected by mother. i do agree with you. the less human interaction, the better, regards

You may be thinking of an incident where a bison calf had been left sleeping on one side of the river and the herd moved across - the calf was lost and confused and a well-meaning but ill-informed visitor put it in his car and took it to the ranger station…the rangers tried to return it to the location but by then, for whatever reason, a successful reunion with its mom wasn’t to be. Calf was subsequently euthanized after wandering around for a couple of days on the highway. The well-intentioned visitor was cited and fined. (I live in the GYE - Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem - and this was a big story here.)

 

[Todd727]

One of the worst cases of click-bait I've seen on this site. Seriously, "Yellowstone Danger" followed by "go boom"

 

[miscjames]

We went to a bison farm and you all are right those things are huge. The guide was telling us during the early America there numbers got really low due to over hunting. ( i dont care to get a into all that)
He pointed out that the Bison we have today are only about half the size of what they used to be. Due to the low numbers of breeding stock. Some of those bulls we seen were over 6’ ! can you imagine one towering in at about 12’!
PSA i have not fact checked his statement.

 

[grsthegreat]

We went to a bison farm and you all are right those things are huge. The guide was telling us during the early America there numbers got really low due to over hunting. ( i dont care to get a into all that)
He pointed out that the Bison we have today are only about half the size of what they used to be. Due to the low numbers of breeding stock. Some of those bulls we seen were over 6’ ! can you imagine one towering in at about 12’!
PSA i have not fact checked his statement.

I dont believe that at all. Ive seen old time photos and paintings of the hunters, and indians, killing buffalo, and those animals were not any larger than the ones today

 

[Gord Baker]

Yellowstone they say is going to go boom in minutes

Current Geyser Activity - Yellowstone National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

All geyser activity changes with time.

www.nps.gov

willy

That will be a very bad Day/Year/Decade.

 

[kenhar]

From what I saw at Yelloestone, the geyser activity is so wide spread, if and when it does blow, the hole thats left will make the Grand Canyon look like a road ditch.

 

[JasperFrank]

Another Yellowstone story. This was the second time I'd been there.

Saw group of cars parked on the side of the road, so I pulled over investigate. There was a huge male Bison, grazing just off the road. There were three or four people with their cameras, sneaking up to the Bison to get a close shot. When they got to with in 14 or feet, the Bison was having none of it. It lifted its massive head, looked at all of them and then stomped, and dug out a huge chunk of ground; snorted and made a quick, but short charge. The photographers nearly fell backwards, and ran for their cars and they all took off. I stayed to watch to see if the Bison was going to leave. He didn't. He just started munching on the grasses again. I had nowhere pending to go, so I made a lunch, and watched the Bison from the car. 15 minutes, and the next new batch of other people started pulling over to take their pics. Slowly, these people also started creeping up to the animal to get their in-close pics. They started to get with in that 14 foot zone, and the Bison did exactly what it did before. Looked at them, stomped, and made a short charge. And this set of people all ran back to their cars and drove off in haste. It made me wonder if this was just an annoying 15 to 20 minute cycle that Bison have to deal with during summer. If there had been modern digital cameras, at the time, I would have stayed longer and recorded these events, time compressed them, and set it to, Yakety Sax, the Benny Hill show theme music.

 

[Mike0616]

Made a difference at 1200 baud or less.... That's when all file compression came into being, before modems could some compression on the fly.
but then again why use WPM or MPH or MPG?

Not wanting to sound like an antique here, but at work all our dial-ups were 110 baud modems. Worked for defense contractor back in 70s. Saving character here and there WAS a big deal back then.
Sending message on my gigabit home Internet.

 

[California]

Not wanting to sound like an antique here, but at work all our dial-ups were 110 baud modems. Worked for defense contractor back in 70s. Saving character here and there WAS a big deal back then.
Sending message on my gigabit home Internet.

Yeah. I think the DEC printing terminals were 110 baud simply because they couldn't print any faster. BTDT.

 

[joea99]

curious what the danger is? unpredictability?

the real danger we have in national parks out west are the people disturbing the wildlife spaces/territory esp w/young: bison, moose, bear, etc. in the name of self indulgent selfies. thinking animals are meant to be fuzzy wuzzy for us humankind: idiots putting themselves & wildlife at risk

The "Caldera" or "super volcano"? Some say it would be a catastrophic event, altering the course of Human life. Others say, not so much.

Yellowstone Caldera - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[gstrom99]

The "Caldera" or "super volcano"? Some say it would be a catastrophic event, altering the course of Human life. Others say, not so much.

As long as they're bubbling and venting, they're relieving pressure. I think if they stop, or aren't venting, those are the dangerous ones...

 

[mvoght]

One of the worst cases of click-bait I've seen on this site. Seriously, "Yellowstone Danger" followed by "go boom"

Yes, it was...but you know, I haven't been to Yellowstone, and I started surfing the site, and I'm thinking a 2025 vacation to Yellowstone might be fun to plan. But, I'm thinking Dude Ranch, so I can see some via horseback, my hubby can fly fish, and we can enjoy the scenery. Do a bit of hiking...

Hardest part of vacation planning? Finding the dates that work for the farm sitter and us!