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Wyoming Looks to Designate Famed Path of the Pronghorn

April 21, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

Pronghorn are North America's fastest land mammal and migrate hundreds of miles along Wyoming's Path of the Pronghorn
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.
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Whitebark Pine: An Education in Trees

April 8, 2025 // NEWS: Feature

Ecologist Nancy Bockino in her element: the Teton backcountry with whitebark pine
Mountain ski guides frequent the high alpine where whitebark pine grows. Two are using their time in the backcountry to educate others on the power and grace of this endangered tree.
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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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'Tools to Save Our Home Planet'

April 4, 2025 // Book Review

The global power of upcoming Earth Day
A new book from Patagonia offers time-tested guidance on grassroots environmental activism. Here’s how it could benefit rural communities.
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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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Sowing Uncertainty from DC Beltway to Yellowstone Gateways

March 13, 2025 // NEWS: Feature

Workers install a fire ring at a campground for Friends of Bridger-Teton
How the federal budget purge is impacting regional landscape conservation and stewardship.
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When I Need to say 'NO'

March 5, 2025 // OPINION: Column

Range fire: The Tetons and Grand Teton National Park
When we pick our battles, sometimes we must stand up and call a spade a spade.
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‘A Cascading Effect’: Forest Service, Park Service Workers who Lost Jobs Amid Mass Layoffs Explain Rippling Fallout

February 20, 2025 // NEWS: Feature

In a lawsuit seeking to halt federal employee firings, the NFFE union said layoffs will threaten 500,000 federal employees
Five nationwide unions representing federal employees have gone to court in an attempt to stop workforce reductions.
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Update: CWD Spreads to Wyoming Feedground

February 17, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

Elk queue to make their way across the flats at the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Increase in chronic wasting disease numbers among elk at Dell Creek Feedground marks new territory for always-fatal disease.
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Bill Would Redraw Lines Between Wyoming Trappers, Trail Users

February 13, 2025 // NEWS: In Short

Traps and snares near roads and trails can be dangerous to wildlife as well as domesticated pets
Lawmakers push to give wildlife officials authority to end unrestricted trapping access on public lands.
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DEQ Reports Nitrates in Wyoming Community Linked to Septic Systems

February 10, 2025 // NEWS: In Short

Hoback Junction from the air
After years of nitrate contamination in Hoback Junction, its residents are still grappling with access to clean drinking water.
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In Response to 2024 Wolf Torture, Killing, Wyoming Seeks to Write New Chapter

February 6, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

In Wyoming, House bills 275 and 331 are aimed at reducing animal cruelty in the state
Two bills in the Wyoming Legislature seek to outlaw cruelty to predatory animals.
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CWD Cases Increasing as Feedgrounds Remain in Hotseat

January 30, 2025 // NEWS: In Short

CWD affects cervids and is always deadly
Wyoming Game and Fish report fifth chronic wasting disease case near where federal agencies feed elk, first confirmed case at Wyoming elk feedground.
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Jackson Tourism Board Reports on Ski Town's Sustainable Future

January 21, 2025 // NEWS: In Short

Crowds at Jackson's Wold Championship Snowmobile Hillclimb
With nearly 3 million annual visitors to Jackson Hole, community gathers to review progress of five-year tourism management plan.
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