While watching Trumpeter swans and Mallard ducks feeding along the Texas Slough in the Burton area, west of Rexburg, two flashes of powder-blue caught my attention. The raucous rattling sound indicated a pair of belted kingfishers were chasing each other along warm seeps where minnows were trapped in pockets of water. The male had caught […]
Tis’ the season of ghosts and goblins at Harriman State Park. In the early dawn Tuesday morning with the temperature hovering around 20 degrees, I watched a herd of 22 elk standing knee-deep in the Henrys Fork eating the water veggies. Steam was rising from the river creating the scene of ghost-like animals warming their […]
CHESTER – On the bank of the Henrys Fork in Chester is a hydroelectric dam owned by Fall River Electric. Next to it is a power plant that generates 800 kilowatts per hour of electricity every second — enough to power about 500 homes. The operation benefits tens of thousands of people throughout eastern Idaho […]
At the LeHardys Rapids in Yellowstone Park, I observed a small dark gray bird that appeared to be pecking a hole in a rock out in the Yellowstone River. As I got closer, I saw the bird was killing a Yellowstone cutthroat trout fingerling. Before I could get a picture of it, the bird fed […]
The following is a news release from the Henrys Fork Wildlife Alliance. ISLAND PARK – A new fence at Lyle Springs in Island Park was recently completed by the U.S. Forest Service. This project, led by Wildlife Biologist Sabrina Derusseau with the Forest Service, was the result of a Resource Advisory Committee grant that the […]