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Tragedy Strikes Again: Another of Grizzly 399's Descendants Lost to Vehicle Collision

May 7, 2025 // NEWS: In Short

Royalty: Grizzly 399, Queen of the Tetons, with her four cubs in September 2020. Among them Grizzly 1058
Bear 1058, the five-year-old male from famous quadruplet litter, on Tuesday became the latest casualty on a Grand Teton roadway.
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Planned Repeal of ‘Public Lands Rule’ Could Unleash Federal Resource Development

May 6, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

The Bureau of Land Management oversees 245 million acres of public land across the country
The Interior Department is exploring multiple ways to ‘restore American prosperity’ by capitalizing on timber, grazing, fossil fuels at the expense of conservation. It could also push billions of dollars of management costs onto state taxpayers.
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Trump Budget Proposal Portends Deep Cuts to Public Lands

May 5, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

President Donald Trump's budget proposal includes allocating $1.1 trillion to defense spending while reducing non-defense federal spending by $163 billion
Recommendations include new consolidated wildfire service, more tasks in state hands, less science.
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A Case of Mistaken Identity? Some Hunters are Confusing Grizzlies with Black Bears

April 28, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

While some black bears and grizzly bears look decidedly different, some can be similar colors and sizes. Nevertheless, hunters mistaking grizzlies for black bears say they can do better.
Over the last decade, more than a dozen Greater Yellowstone grizzlies have been killed by hunters who say they mistook them for black bears.
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Forest Service Braces for Restructuring as Timber Orders Add to Workload

April 25, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

A Forest Service memo calls for a 25 percent increase in timber production by July 4
Feds look to consolidate regional offices while planning to roll out new strategies over the next two months.
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Draft National Wildfire Plan Under White House Consideration Returns Firefighting ‘to the 1930s,’ Experts Say

April 18, 2025 // NEWS: Feature

Looking back at the "10 a.m. rule," a 1930s wildfire policy to suppress all fires by 10 a.m. the morning after they are discovered
On the cusp of wildfire season, a new proposal recommends consolidating all federal firefighting resources, calls for immediate fire suppression.
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How Wyoming Sought to Stave off Wolf Torture

April 15, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

Our Lady of The Forest: Alpha female of Yellowstone's Wapiti Lake Pack
Two bills in the 2025 Legislature were introduced in response to the torture and killing of a wolf in Daniel, Wyoming.
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Future of Grizzly Bear Study Group in Dire Straits

April 14, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

'Someone to watch over me': Grizzly 399 and Spirit look to the future
As Interior Secretary Doug Burgum touts successful dire wolf revival, IGBST fights for survival.
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Public Opinion Boils Over as Feds Continue Slashing Jobs, Budgets

April 4, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

Protesters rally at MSU in Bozeman, Montana last month
Demonstrators attended more than 1,000 “Hands Off” protests across the nation and Greater Yellowstone.
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Federal NIH Cuts Hit Greater Yellowstone Disease Research

April 2, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

A tick comparison: The smaller deer tick, right, can carry Lyme disease. NIH confirmed in February the first deer tick in Montana
Lab workers studying tick expansion lose staff, resources involved in Lyme, chronic wasting disease, coronavirus research and related threats.
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Yellowstone Gateway Town Fears for Future amid Trump Funding Cuts

April 1, 2025

Protesters stake their claim at the North Entrance to Yellowstone in Gardiner
Shutting down federal funding through the Park Service could cripple Gardiner, Montana.
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Inside the Battle Over the ESA

March 31, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

A threatened Canada lynx checks its six
Since the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, has it been a winning or losing proposition? It depends on who you ask.
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How Deep Does It Go? Future of Area Water Monitoring in Question

March 21, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

The future of Greater Yellowstone water monitoring USGS performs may be in jeopardy
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.
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If the Forest Falls

March 17, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

Trump's March 1 executive order calls for "immediate expansion of timber production"
Timber industry analysts wonder if they can keep up with Trump logging orders.
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