Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
YELLOWSTONE ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE
study yellowstone's wolves, geysers, & bears
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
You're not going to get the full experience of Yellowstone through the
windshield.
—Jeff Brown, director of education at the Yellowstone Association Institu-
te
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Here's the itinerary of most of the three million visitors to Yellowstone: Snap a photo
of Aunt Edna in front of Old Faithful, buy a T-shirt of a bear and a bison for the niece and
nephew, snap another picture of Aunt Edna beside the Roosevelt Arch, get in the RV, and go
home.
There's another breed of tourist, however, who knows how to “break on through to the
other side,” a group that has figured out how to leave behind the mob scene and get back to
the primordial pull that Yellowstone is really all about. These folks come to take classes, to sit
at the feet (rather, walk behind the day pack) of Yellowstone biologists, naturalists, and park
rangers.
These tourists come for the field school sponsored by the Yellowstone Association Insti-
tute (YAI). Established in 1976, the YAI provides in-depth courses on the natural and cultural
history of Yellowstone. Most of the courses last from one to five days, have 12 or less stu-
