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A Case of Mistaken Identity? Some Hunters are Confusing Grizzlies with Black Bears
April 28, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Over the last decade, more than a dozen Greater Yellowstone grizzlies have been killed by hunters who say they mistook them for black bears.
Read MoreWyoming Looks to Designate Famed Path of the Pronghorn
April 21, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
A Wyoming Game and Fish Commission vote in July could bring a long-deliberated migration corridor for imperiled pronghorn a step closer to designation as a state corridor.
Read MoreDraft National Wildfire Plan Under White House Consideration Returns Firefighting ‘to the 1930s,’ Experts Say
April 18, 2025 // NEWS: Feature
On the cusp of wildfire season, a new proposal recommends consolidating all federal firefighting resources, calls for immediate fire suppression.
Read MoreFuture of Grizzly Bear Study Group in Dire Straits
April 14, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
As Interior Secretary Doug Burgum touts successful dire wolf revival, IGBST fights for survival.
Read MoreFederal NIH Cuts Hit Greater Yellowstone Disease Research
April 2, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Lab workers studying tick expansion lose staff, resources involved in Lyme, chronic wasting disease, coronavirus research and related threats.
Read MoreUSFWS Extends Comment Period for Grizzly Management Plan
March 28, 2025 // NEWS: In Short
This latest change follows feds rejecting state petitions to manage local grizzly populations and extends the public comment period to May 16.
Read MoreWolves Need Federal Protection to Survive
March 24, 2025 // OPINION: Op-ed
As wildlife proponents in January celebrated the 30th anniversary of wolf reintroductions to Yellowstone National Park, wolves remain under fire.
Read MoreHow Deep Does It Go? Future of Area Water Monitoring in Question
March 21, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
With USGS offices in Greater Yellowstone among dozens of regional government buildings on the chopping block, DOGE savings efforts leave anglers wondering if streamflow monitors will survive.
Read More‘A Cascading Effect’: Forest Service, Park Service Workers who Lost Jobs Amid Mass Layoffs Explain Rippling Fallout
February 20, 2025 // NEWS: Feature
Five nationwide unions representing federal employees have gone to court in an attempt to stop workforce reductions.
Read MoreThe Fight for Wild Lands: Part 2
February 18, 2025 // MoJo Special Series
Executive orders coming from the White House could transform a range of core issues affecting Greater Yellowstone. From Forest Service and BLM priorities to national park staffing cuts, public lands advocates must brace for a long season of conflict.
Read MoreGrizzly Bear ESA Status in Question as FWS Cancels Public Meetings
January 27, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pulls out of all four meetings intended to explain its decision to retain grizzlies’ threatened status.
Read MoreFederal Judges Find New Power as Chevron Precedent Falls Away
January 23, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Supreme Court ruling drops deference to administrative agency experts. The implications for environmental cases are vast.
Read MoreMontana Launches Study to Verify Accuracy of Bobcat Population Data
January 22, 2025 // NEWS: In Short
FWP aims to close potential gender
identification gaps in harvest reports over
five years, seeks hunter participation.
Fighting for Survival
January 14, 2025 // NEWS: Analysis
At a charged time for grizzly bears, MoJo takes you inside the complex U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to keep grizzlies on the endangered species list.
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