- There are 3000 bison in the Yellowstone national park area.
- They wore wool shirts on the Oregon trail
- A male Bison will weigh a ton (2,000 pounds)
- The eco system of Yellowstone is 31,000 square miles
- You can fit 5 smaller states into Yellowstone's ecosystem
- A coyote is 2 feet tall and are 30 to 40 lbs
- A wolf is over 40lbs and 3 feet tall
- Your also must watch out for cougars
- A coyote has huge hears and a wolf has tiny ears
- you can tell them apart there ears
- They might work together to take down a big animal
- coyotes normally work in groups
- The wolfs face is bigger than the coyote and the muzzle is wider and shorter
- A coyote tricks by acting like it got and then attacks your dog and the family kills it
- A lot of the trail is in the northern plains
- There is no real trail just it was were wagons and walked and made a trail by layed over grass
- And tracks are deep ruts on side and higher mid-part
- Wolves and coyotes have the same
- Wolves and coyotes fight to get food
- Bears win against wolves and coyotes
- You get the size of your wagon depending on how many or how big your animals are
- You must sift through flour for bugs
- They took elders with them because they didn’t want to be broken apart
- you could only ride in the wagon if you were sick elderly or a baby
- You want to stay to the side if it was dusty
- on a pass it would take up to a day to pass through
- Bugs and snakes and badgers are out there in the prairies
- They had to lower your wago on a mountain down the side but they had to un-hich the animals and re hich them
- At age 11 you had to make sure your animals stayed close to the wagon
- Black bears mainly eat berries and fruit
- They would shoot and skin bear if they tried to attack
- You would run into mosquitoes, gnats and, biting flies
- You could use buffalo fat as bug repellent
- Badgers live alone and are solitary
- Badgers like play
- You can catch and eat Badgers
- You can make it any way but it is foul and you need to use lots of seasoning
- wolves and coyotes have outer and inner coats
- Wolves can way over 147lbs
- Wolves are really tall
- packs have been destroyed packs of wolves
- Badgers are still hunted
- If Badgers are cornered they will not back down
- Lichen is food to caribou and rain deer
- People worked hard survived or died
I learned a lot from these two skypes as you can see above. I think this will help us along the oregon trail. This can also be used for protection hunting and survival.