Brendel Made Her TV Appearance

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Yellowstone National Park turns 150 years old this year. In 2021, Kevin Costner took interest in a different Yellowstone than the television series he’s worked on for the past six years, (Huge fan of that show as well). Marc Pierce, executive producer and CEO of Montana-based Warm Springs Productions, went to Costner with a pitch to be the narrator and host of “Yellowstone One-Fifty,” a four-part series told from the historical perspective of the 1871 expedition led by geologist Ferdinand V. Hayden to explore the region. It was Hayden and his group – which included a topographer, meteorologist, zoologist, botanists, a photographer and artist – that gave the world the first photographs, paintings and scientific reports on the unique area, capturing imaginations with fantastic tales of geysers, burbling mudpots and a giant waterfall. The next year, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act into law. Started watching part one last night. A grizzly bear was chasing a herd of elk in this one scene. A baby elk got lost from the pack. It was hiding in the grass. You can see this in my photo. All of a sudden there was my cat Brendel. She climbed up the cat tree, then the book shelf, onto the fireplace to see the scene. I snapped a photo with my iPhone before she jumped down. Almost as if she was checking on the baby. And the baby was safe from the bear, in case you wondered. An incredible four part documentary to watch, I highly recommend it. Photo is mine.