Yellowstone Project (PHIL 202): Videos

Traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and save them from destruction.

In the valley of the wolves : The Druids are the most celebrated wolf pack in North America. For almost a decade, they have held the Lamar Valley in northern Yellowstone. The valley is prime winter grazing for thousands of elk and thus the most coveted wolf country in all the Park.

In the valley of the wolves presents documentary footage revealing the habits of Yellowstone National Park's wolf pack known as "the Druids." Christmas in Yellowstone explores the wonders of winter at Yellowstone.

John Hart describes work being done to prevent mining pollution in the Greater Yellowstone region and his own quest to protect the sacred natural resources he loves.

Follows a controversial experiment to bring the ultimate predator back into the heart of the West. Shows how one group of wolves, the Druid Peak pack, is reintegrated within the parameters of Yellowstone, the oldest national park in the United States, in 1995. Follows biologists who relocated the wolf pack and monitored the wolves' trials and successes as they adapted to their new home.

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Reveals the grandeur of this unique place as its animals struggle to survive over the course of three vividly changing seasons.

Experience Yellowstone National Park's dramatic landscape of geysers, mud pots and hot springs, mountains, lakes and waterfalls, and bison, elk, wolves, bighorn sheep, and grizzly bears. Explore the park in every season, from the lush summer months, to the harsh beauty of winter. Witness the spectacle of Old Faithful, and visit hot springs such as Mammoth and Norris, plus Grand Prismatic Spring.