Telemetry: The Sound of Science in Yellowstone

Episode 10: Home on the Range

Bison have lived on the Yellowstone landscape for millennia, but the history of bison conservation has been fraught with challenges. In 2019, federal, state, and tribal p

Episode 9: Pivot Point

One family's dramatic encounter with a grizzly bear. Listener discretion is advised.

Episode 8: Tigers of Yellowstone

Did you know there are tigers in Yellowstone? It just takes a keen eye to observe them. These creatures--and countless others like them--live in a world that's not always

Episode 7: Vital Signs

"Vital signs," like blood pressure and pulse rate, are used in medicine to track human health. Paying attention to the little things can often help us better understand w

Episode 6: What Lies Below

People travel from all over the world to see Yellowstone's famous geysers, colorful hot springs, burbling mud pots, and hissing fumaroles. The force that drives these ama

Episode 5: The Value of One Wolf

Wolf researcher Kira Cassidy likes to say that when Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book in 1894 and included the famous line “For the strength of the Wolf is the Pack a

Episode 4: Reburn: The Maple Fire Story

On August 8, 2016, a lightning strike ignited a small fire on the edge of Yellowstone National Park near the community of West Yellowstone. Most fires in the park never b

Episode 3: Cougar M198

Last January, one of Yellowstone's marked mountain lions went missing. Scientists traveled deep into the park to investigate. And that journey? It wasn't as straightforwa

Episode 2: One Fish, Two Fish: Saving the Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout

Back in 1870, a member of the Washburn Expedition wrote in his diary about the Yellowstone cutthroat trout: "Two men could catch them faster than half a dozen could clean

Episode 1: To Catch a Loon

What do scientists do when they're racing to understand what's happening to one of the smallest and most isolated common loon populations in North America? Whatever it ta