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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

Five nationwide unions representing federal employees have gone to court in an attempt to stop workforce reductions.
Read MoreFWS: Grizzly Bears to Remain Protected Under Endangered Species Act
January 8, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

The agency rejected state petitions for local management, creating a single recovery area for grizzlies in the Lower 48.
Another Colorado Mountain Town Copes With Impacts Of Growing Recreation Pressure On Wildlife
April 9, 2022

Outside of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, expanding trails and intensity of use are impacting how elk use the landscape and may be causing their numbers to fall.
Read MoreWe Outdoor Recreationists—All Of Us— Are Displacing Wildlife
January 31, 2022

Scientist April Craighead shares what the Craighead Institute has found so far in its examination of user impacts on wildlife near Bozeman, attitudes toward animals and each other
Read MoreIn The Bull's Eye: A Human Swarm Is Overwhelming The Yellowstone Region
July 20, 2021

Amid unprecedented development and outdoor recreation pressure, three experts say new strategies urgently needed to save America's most famous wildlife ecosystem
Read MoreJohn Heminway: American Master Of Dramatic Earthly Storytelling
June 15, 2021

From writing for legendary Wyoming outdoorsman Curt Gowdy to exposing elephant ivory poachers on film, John Heminway fights for wildness by telling the truth
Read MoreIt's Time For Outdoor Recreationists To Not Just Be Takers
August 25, 2020

In this thought-provoking piece, Lesli Allison, head of the Western Landowners Alliance, says people who play need to realize wildlife conservation and recreation are not the same
Read MoreYoung And Roused: Movement In West Strives To Remake Communities Wholer
June 7, 2020

In Rockies, Forward Montana empowers leaders to confront injustice, navigate corona uncertainty, and challenge economic disparity. One of its staffers explains how
Read MoreIf The Challenges Facing Jackson Hole Can't Be Fixed, Then What's The Fate Of Greater Yellowstone?
October 14, 2019

Will "collaboration as usual" save America's most iconic ecosystem or it is time for new leaders touting a braver new vision?
Read MoreRanchers Play Key Role In Saving Greater Yellowstone's Wildlife Pathways
May 29, 2019

Region's amazing migration corridors and Western working lands are co-dependent. As Lesli Allison writes, 'to ensure either thrives, both must persist'
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