Yellowstone Park, August 3rd, 2024

Beware!

It is berry season in much of the Park. Huckleberries and low bush blueberries are the major ones that mature. These are located in well forested areas, and their sweet aromas flow through the forests. Well forested sections of all Fall River Basin streams, stretches of Slough Creek, Gallatin, Gibbon, and Madison Rivers have these in abundance. The temptation to harvest some is hard to resist, but is illegal to do so. The aromas signal to bears, black and grizzly, that is time to forage, thus patches of these can be hazardous to approach or pass through because bears have been known to defend such.