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Future 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 MoreMontana Updates Wolf Management Playbook as Hunting Bills Advance
April 3, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Wildlife managers release first wolf management plan in 22 years, set minimum baseline population to 450.
Read MoreInside the Battle Over the ESA
March 31, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Since the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, has it been a winning or losing proposition? It depends on who you ask.
Read MoreGrizzlies: Double Vision
February 25, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
With the Endangered Species Act comment period ending March 17, states and advocates are at odds over the future of grizzly bears.
Read MoreThe Fight For Wild Lands: Part 3
February 19, 2025 // MoJo Special Series
The U.S. Constitution gives citizens the right to “petition the government for a redress of grievances.” As a blizzard of public lands change sweeps out of Washington, D.C., activists around Greater Yellowstone ponder tactics to help them keep what they hold dear.
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 MoreThe Fight for Wild Lands: Part 1
February 17, 2025 // MoJo Special Series
As organizers prepare for the biennial Rally for Public Lands, the conservation world faces down a changing climate, an administration determined to dismantle environmental protections, and its own internal contradictions.
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 MoreMyth-Busting and the Great Gray Wolf
January 26, 2025 // NEWS: Feature
As we look back on the 30 years since the wolf was reintroduced in Yellowstone, we examine what wolves are and what they aren’t.
Read MoreThe Year of the Wolves
January 3, 2025 // FEATURE: History
Thirty years ago this month, gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho. Today, the people who made it happen remember the mayhem and magic of one of the 20th century’s most controversial acts of ecosystem management.
Read MoreThe Mother We Shared: Reflections on the Life of Bear 399
October 30, 2024 // OPINION: Essay
An author and first responder weighs
the magnitude of the impact 399 had on her enamored followers, and examines how
we can bridge the gap for bears and other wildlife as we walk forward without
the Queen of the Tetons.
Love and Hope in a Time of Uncertainty
October 28, 2024 // OPINION: Column
In the wake
of the passing of Grizzly Bear 399, Susan Marsh writes that even through the
fog of despair, love and persistence are needed now more than ever.
Are Toxic Agrichemicals Forcing Rapid Evolution in Yellowstone Elk?
June 14, 2024 // NEWS: Feature
New
research suggests hazardous chemicals like pesticides and fertilizers used in
farming, more so than wolves, contributed to a decline in Greater Yellowstone elk
and other ruminants.
A Tale of Two Revivals: How Yellowstone Helped Return Wolves to Colorado
March 31, 2024 // NEWS: Feature
In
1995, the gray wolf was reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park. Nearly 30
years later, Colorado has done the same. How will it play out?