As you can see, there are a few green things starting to show up. We took a ride into the park on Monday and saw a couple of amazing things. First, there were four brand new prescribed burn areas. These areas were burned only one week before I took this picture:
Those little blades of grass poking through the freshly-scortched earth are the greenest things North of the Twin Cities. After seeing that and the beautiful mosaic formed by the Red Eagle Fire in Glacier National Park (2006), I've become a pretty big fan of natural fires.
However, the real reason we were driving Monday was because Nathan was tipped off that the bison were having their calves. We expected to see a few like this that were born a few days before:
But we weren't ready to see this:
A brand new calf, born minutes before. How do I know? Well, we noticed the mother eating something weird and stringy. My Park Ranger guide informed me nonchalantly that that was the afterbirth and eating it is the first thing bison do after their calf is born. Isn't nature...precious?
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment