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January 24, 2018
Bison In Their Winter Environment, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA

Bison In Their Winter Environment
Bison In Their Winter Environment
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA
Canon EOS 1D X Mk II, 100-400 II (at 271mm), 1/500 sec, f8, ISO 200
Image taken on January 23, 2018.
I'm enjoying Yellowstone with reasonable temperatures, mostly just below freezing, and a decent amount of snow. These four Bison (Bison bison) were part of a long line moving from one grazing area to another.

I arrived on Friday the 19th, the last day before the government shutdown. I went out the next morning and everything seemed to be just like normal, which is what I expected because the road from Gardiner through Mammoth to Cooke City is open year-round, and that's the only access to Cooke City in the winter. Things started changing on Sunday the 21st when the tag board at Mammoth Campground was covered with a sheet of metal. I was worried that I'd be kicked out, but there was no indication that the campground was closed. Later that day, a ranger knocked on the door of my RV and gave me my money back that I put in the self-service drop box on Friday — never had that happen before. The "bad news" is that the government reopened on Monday the 22nd, and they started accepting (demanding?) payments for the campground again on the 23rd. :)

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