Cusp

Both points of exit from the park for the buffalo---on the north border at Gardiner, MT, and on the west border at West Yellowstone, MT---are on the brink of massacre. There are about 100 buffalo testing the waters at each limen, preparing for their annual migration out of Yellowstone National Park. Almost immediately after they cross the Park boundary, they will be captured, killed, or hazed back into the Park. Tension is starting to rise here, as if gaseous pressure were signalling the eruption of a volcano, the same fate that will eventually befall mother Yellowstone. Meanwhile, we continue to observe these wild animals in their natural habitat from a distance, and prepare for the seemingly inevitable devastation that awaits them this, as every other year.