I still love the U.S. Forest Service. Actually, I should qualify that: as an American woman of color who has had a lifelong passion for ecology and conserving natural resources, I love the idea of the ...

The U.S. Forest Service plans to phase out the nine regional offices across the country, including the Region 1 Headquarters in Missoula, Montana. Credit: Robert Chaney The U.S. Forest Service will ...

Grizzly bear tracks alongside human footprints on the shore of Yellowstone Lake behind the Fishing Bridge Visitor Center, 2020. Credit: A. Falgoust / NPS This July 14, just 10 days after Americans ...

My passion for watching wildlife began when I was 12 years old and my parents gave me a new edition of the classic Field Guide to Animal Tracks, written by the great biologist Olaus J. Murie in 1954. ...

Changes in the salmonfly hatch and other aquatic insect communities portend shifts in Greater Yellowstone ecosystems and ...

Five decades of federal protection have boosted bear numbers. Will state control undo that recovery?

I am a social scientist who studies the human dimensions of wildlife issues – the complex interplay between scientific ...

Oliver Payne, a buffalo wrangler, looks into the semi truck to see how many bison are left in zero-degree weather at Turtle Mound Ranch near Wolf Point, Montana, on February 19, 2026. The Fort Peck ...

The Dell Creek and Forest Park feedgrounds have been a concern for CWD since 2023. Here, Wyoming Game and Fish distributes hay to elk at the state-run Patrol Cabin feedground north of Jackson. Credit: ...

Up in the Far US North, he spent months studying grizzlies on the tundra, sleeping out in a tent on nights when the summer sun barely dipped below the horizon. On the other side of the thin wall of ...

Pronghorn antelope pass over U.S. Highway 191 at the Trapper’s Point wildlife crossing outside of Pinedale, Wyoming, near the 6,000-year-old “Path of the Pronghorn” migration route. The Trapper’s ...

Late in 2019 at a book signing event in Gardiner, Montana for the new atlas of stories and photographs commemorating the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, I gave a review of my involvement with the ...