YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — It takes a village to run Yellowstone National Park (YNP), including dedicated volunteers who do everything from maintaining park trails to running beloved park webcams.
YNP recognized the work of its team of webcam volunteers in honor of the upcoming National Volunteer Week, which the National Park Service is celebrating from April 21 to 27 this year.
“There are thirteen National Park Service volunteers scattered across the country who remotely steer the Old Faithful live-streaming webcam daily from sun-up to sun-down,” YNP posted to its social media channels. “They monitor Old Faithful’s eruptions and direct the webcam to view the eruptions of other features as well as wildlife in the basin.”
In this case, “wildlife in the basin” refers to an appearance by the Wapiti Lake wolf pack at the Upper Geyser Basin in February of this year, captured by the Yellowstone webcam volunteers.
In the clip shared by YNP, at least eight wolves appear to be merrily loping around the geyser basin, hopping over the snow-covered boardwalks and even wagging their tails.
