The Dutchers spent six years living in yurts on the compound, recording whatever the wolves were doing. |
Located on the ridge above Galena, three backcountry yurts are accessible by a short ski or snowshoe. |
The camp was ready for my sole occupancy and, yes, it was made up of those wonderful, traditional, Mongolian felt tents they called yurts. |
Today, yurts are only used as temporary shelters by shepherds in remote, seasonal pastures. |
At one time, the nomadic Kazaks lived in yurts, cone-shaped tents of white felt stretched over a framework of wooden poles. |
Inuit igloos in the Arctic and felt-covered yurts on the Mongolian steppes, for example, have been used for centuries. |