Wolves & Wild Kin

“Federal sharpshooters are preparing to take to the skies of Northern Idaho in an ill-conceived attempt to kill as many as 75 wolves to artificially boost game populations.”

Thank You To The That One Great Shot Group For Featuring This Written Work

I am very pleased and honoured to be able to contribute in my own small way, to the conservation of some of the magnificent …

Gnawing the Moon down
to a crescent rind,
Eerie voices rise and whine
along Earth’s shadowed skin.

Some in Congress want to attach legislation to the upcoming spending bill to eliminate protection for gray wolves allowing for poisoning of wolves in the Northern Rockies and Greater Yellowstone.

Gratitude
©Jay Ryser

Last year, early on a cold, snowy Christmas morning, before the rest of the family was even considering getting out of their beds, I snuck out of my warm house and went to my favo…

I have posted anything in a while – I hadn’t even pushed the shutter button in 2 weeks. This is always a rough time of year for wildlife photography; the elk rut is long over, the bighor…

“Seek out the solitary wolf track, …”

Celestial Wolf

“He walks the way of the stars
and haloed Moon,…”

The Fox Kit Quest
©Jay Ryser

I like projects; they help keep me focused (pun always intended). One of the reasons I like projects is that I like to keep working a subject, get to know a species of an…

Quietly standing
My heart longed for lonely howls
But they were No More
The forest mourned their passing
The branches bent in sorrow

catherine m howell 5 ~ 2010

Ardent need to be free forever in your blood,
The wind calls and response is a howl.
Sadness, loneliness;
despair carried over the hills to
another like kind

He arrived before dawn
Excited, and anticipating his first
Aerial wolf hunt.

The morning mist formed
Frosted Crystals on the
Already Frozen snow.

Pine boughs, heavy with
Freshly fallen snow
Dusted the gr…

I just posted the image Spring Fox today, but I didn’t post the rest of the story.

As I mentioned before, I’m getting images of fox kits this year, dammit. Every Spring for the last few …

Save the Elephants: STOP BLOODY IVORY

“My mind takes me back to a time
Far into the past.
Tribes, living off the land
At one with their Creator,
In harmony with His creation,
Taking only what they needed to survive,”

Sometime in the mid 90’s my wife and me along with her brother took a trip to Montana.

I built one of those put together trailers for our tent camping gear. We left Green Bay, Wisconsin and wen…

“the pack ate their food
and then they moved,
for they had no way to bury their family
members.”

Oh sensitive wolf
what has caused you to share your song
what has caused you to lift your voice
in beauty
to the heavens
in the quiet hush of the forest
with the stars hanging low
where the snowflakes fall
l…