In Tragic Week for Grizzlies, Food-Conditioned Adult Euthanized in Yellowstone, Grand Teton Cubs Killed by Older Bear

May 20, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

by Katie O'Reilly

A grizzly paw print on a dumpster in Yellowstone National Park

The Yellowstone bear’s behavior, while considered rare and exceptional, spells danger for grizzlies across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

'Tools to Save Our Home Planet'

April 4, 2025 // Book Review

by Katie Hill

A new book from Patagonia offers time-tested guidance on grassroots environmental activism. Here’s how it could benefit rural communities.

Wolves: Taking Aim from the Air

March 28, 2024 // NEWS: Dispatch

by Julia Barton

Aerial wolf gunning is a practice used to manage wolves in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Conservation groups are pushing back.

Conservation orgs are battling the aerial shooting of wolves, coyotes and foxes on Idaho public lands. Now they’ve submitted a petition to the U.S. Forest Service to ban the practice. Will the feds listen?

How A Mega-Mine And A 'Law Without A Brain' Were Defeated On Yellowstone's Back Door

August 26, 2021 // Mining, Yellowstone

by Todd Wilkinson

Henderson Mountain would have been sacrificed to mega gold mining

A quarter century after a controversial gold mine was stopped thanks to presidential intervention, one of the green Davids who battled a powerful Canadian giant reflects on the longshot victory

Is 'Wildland Conservation' That Does Not Emphasize Wildlife Really Conservation?

April 28, 2021

by Todd Wilkinson

Well-known artists, writers fill volume edited by Katie Christiansen

Delightful new 'Artist's Field Guide To Yellowstone' offers inspiring reasons to care about protecting wildlife in Lower 48's famous bioregion

Composting Carcasses In Cattle Country Keeps Livestock And Predators Alive

June 11, 2020

by Katie Hill

Writer Kate Hill explores why it's important for conservation groups to protect rancher identity in times of livestock loss

How Do We Rejoin The Interconnected Community Of Nature?

April 6, 2020

by Katie Shepherd Christiansen

Naturalist turned new mom Katie Shepherd Christiansen says we ought to reflect on how we can treat wild country with more respect

Be Active, Reject Despair: Conflict Is Always A Catalyst For Positive Change

January 13, 2020

by Mike Clark

Mike Clark saw Martin Luther King in action

Receiving honorary doctorate, Mike Clark tells college graduates American democracy at turning point; meanwhile, Diana Blank bestowed with MSU President's Medallion