Hello World!
On May 25th, 2017 at 8:30am we explored the small town of Gardiner, Montana. The area that we explored was the road our hotel is off of (S 2nd St.) and to the left on E Park St. towards the Yellowstone River. In this area there was a fish shop, a gift shop, restaurants, a factory, and residential homes. We noticed that at this time of the morning many of the stores and restaurants were not open yet. We had to walk around outside until 9:00am for things to open up. We also noticed that not many locals were out in Gardiner that early in the morning. We all noticed that there were lots of tourists out and were very curious about it. Once the stores opened we realized that the locals were all the people who had been preparing the stores for the tourists.
We first went to Parks Fly Shop to talk to the two men who worked there, Wally and Ben. We told them about our stewardship question regarding the repopulation of cutthroat trout. They told us that generally, people were in favor of the repopulation of the cutthroat trout in the Yellowstone River. We asked them about the removal policies of the lake trout and they told us about the catch kill policy at Yellowstone Lake. None of us knew what this was and they explained that if you catch a lake trout from Yellowstone Lake, you are required to kill it or keep it, instead of throwing it back in the lake. Wally then brought up the fact that lake trout are only an issue in Yellowstone Lake and are actually welcomed in other areas.
After we finished talking with Ben and Wally we went to Yellowstone Gifts and Sweets and spoke to one of their employees, Alex. She is from Bulgaria and told us that she came to Gardiner through a work program. She likes it a lot here and says that it is a very different environment for her because she is from the capital of Bulgaria. We asked her what the biggest issues were in the park that she knew of and she told us she only knew a little bit about the issues with the wildlife in the park. She didn’t know much because she has only been hiking a couple of times since she moved to Gardiner. She was very interested in our program and asked us a lot about it. After talking to her, we looked around the shop for a bit. She was very helpful while we were browsing.
We really enjoyed our exploration of Gardiner, especially the place we found at the end. We found a small pavilion on the edge of the hill where you had an amazing view of the scenery. Having a chance to see the amazing view that that the locals in Gardiner have every day was the perfect way to end our exploration of Gardiner.
To view pictures of our journey through Gardiner, click on the link below!!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Dzfw_dAN_JlxD8STQ2_GvnmC2IN2EKy9F6b96evECQ/edit?usp=sharing
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Landscape? The way you included the images makes it hard to understand where they fit into your discussion. This is also supposed to be more about the town than your issue.