BIG Kitty!

To see the lion in this picture, click on the picture to expand it to full size. This Picture was taken from the truck! Very unusual to see a mountain lion in the wild, let alone from a vehicle. This was the third experience I have had with seeing a wild lion. Once I saw a lion with a group of Boy Scouts. That was at Strawberry Creek in Eastern Nevada. This cat posed for this picture at Manning Creek in SE Idaho.

That's a Bear Up There!

To see the bear click on the picture and look along the trunk of the tree for his face!

Last fall I went with Jed Miller (a surveyor at Smoky Canyon) to Manning Creek. He was staking the boundries of a timber cruise that I was overseeing. I crested a ridge and heard load scraping noises and grunts. When I looked to where the noise was coming from I saw this black bear heading up the tree as fast as he could. Jed called the office and Chad Gentry (an engineer) came with a camera. Chad snapped this picture.

Enjoying a Dip in the Pool

My brother Jared came for a visit last summer to see some of the country. We came across this Cow and Calf Moose in Diamond Creek. (Caribou National Forest in Southeast Idaho).