Island Park Idaho - Hotel, Lodging, Recreation, and Fishing

Our winter visitor was just one of the many Shiras Moose who call Montana’s Centennial Valley home. Moose numbers appear to be on the rise in the Centennial and around Island Park, Idaho. However, such is not the case in many other areas. Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, the greater Jackson area, sections of Canada, and several areas in Alaska are experiencing declines - some quite sharp.

Grainy photographs of America’s Old West recall a time when large bison herds migrated across wide prairie lands, 30 million strong, with the changing seasons determining their path and destination. Now, NASA satellite data and computer modeling and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) information are helping track the remnants of this once mighty herd in […]