The broader outlook for the Park Service, and subsequently Yellowstone, is far more uncertain. The Trump administration’s ...

“These are two completely different chapters: public land development in wildlife habitat, and then development of 120 acres ...

At the end of May, BLM released its plan to cut Wyoming’s wild horse population by nearly half. Current estimates suggest ...

In the first six months of that year, 19,358 wildfires burned 584,000 acres in the United States. Already in 2025, nearly ...

The Forest Service released its 201-page Congressional Justification budget statement on June 8. It goes into much greater ...

I enjoy tramping in the mountains solo. Each time, once I’m well away from trailheads, my pace slows to a meditative meander. I open to the signature of each beloved place: its scents, a particular ...

A prestige hierarchy of sorts characterizes the three-ring circus of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee. The regional bear managers and biologists are like the lion tamers and acrobats, drawing ...

A quote from David Mattson hangs over Dave Stalling’s desk: “Grizzly bears show tremendous restraint in the face of human stupidity.” Mattson spoke from experience. As a novice field biologist with a ...

Since he was 8 years old, Jared Steele has taken to the Rocky Mountain backcountry in search of antlers shed by their former host: elk, mule deer, moose. Now, nearly 40 years later, Steele has evolved ...