Photo courtesy of John Welch
In October, 1999, local sculptor
John Welch carved a 60-foot tall totem pole from a single 350-year old Sugar Pine depicting a gathering of an animal council consisting of a stellar jay, a thunderbird, a raven, a beaver, and a grizzly bear holding a salmon. The thunderbird has a wingspan of 18-feet and the other animals range from 10 to 12 feet tall. It sits on 7-foot concrete and steel base. It weighs approximately 24,000 pounds. The original pole proved to be quite popular with woodpeckers and
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The journey described in Peter Thody’s travel memoir Yellowstone Roadtrip really began forty years ago in Leeds, England. Thody first dreamed seeing a wild wolf in its natural habitat when he was ten years old. By 2013, in spite of numerous road trips all over North America, Thody had still not realized his boyhood aspiration. Deciding it was high time to achieve his goal and see a wolf in the wild, Thody and his wife headed to Yellowstone National Park in the dead of winter.
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