Today is my last day here.
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| A parade of bison |
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During yesterday's helicopter radio collaring operation, Bonnie mused about how it must seem to the wolves themselves, what they must think about it. After all, a massive thunderous flying machine seemingly comes out of nowhere, moving faster than any Earthly creature and impossible to outrun, and grabs one of them, puts some strange device on them that's impossible to remove or chew off. Then, just as quickly it flies up and vanishes. It must appear to them that some horrible demons from the sky are doing this to them. If the wolves had a religion, surely they would surely incorporate the myths and realities of these evil Sky Demons.
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| Twin, the Lamar Alpha male |
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| Dark Black |
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| Other Lamar wolves |
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| Dramatic moment in the operation with the net being shot toward the wolf |
Well they attempted to re-collar Twin yesterday and failed. Twin escaped the net. Today they tried a second time. This time the whole operation was in view and I got video footage of it all. It started out the same way as yesterday. The yellow plane came out first to locate the wolves. Then the helicopter swooped in for the capture. I was able to see a guy hanging out of the helicopter and shoot a net at the wolf. It was successful! But then others shouted on the radio that they got the wrong wolf. They captured Dark Black instead of Twin! Meanwhile Twin took off running in the other direction, determined not to be caught a second time. The helicopter took off again and went after Twin. The net shot out again... and MISSED! They retrieved the net to try a third time... but now Twin was up in the dense forest area, no longer out in the open, and the helicopter could not follow. So Twin escaped yet again!
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| Twin howling at the Sky Demons |
Later that day I saw the helicopter at the base and they were discussing what to do next after the second failure.
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| Coyote |
On my way home I saw a dragon, and stopped to take a picture.
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| Dragon |
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