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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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As CWD Spreads, Elk Occupancy Agreements Give Wyoming Elk Room to Roam

April 23, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

Wyoming has a century-old tradition sustaining of elk on feedgrounds. Meanwhile, chronic wasting disease cases are increasing.
Wildlife managers say winter range agreements may be one pathway to reducing deadly disease transmission among elk on feedgrounds.
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Rejecting Despair in the Arms of Nature

April 22, 2025 // OPINION: Column

A mountain chickadee celebrates spring in Greater Yellowstone
In an effort to rise above a vicious news cycle, incessant politics and threats to our wildlife and public lands, MoJo columnist Susan Marsh seeks solace in nature and good friends.
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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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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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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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Montana Updates Wolf Management Playbook as Hunting Bills Advance

April 3, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

Wolves on the move in Yellowstone National Park
Wildlife managers release first wolf management plan in 22 years, set minimum baseline population to 450.
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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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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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Wolves Need Federal Protection to Survive

March 24, 2025 // OPINION: Op-ed

Bumper stickers supported by the anti-wolf contingent read, "Smoke a pack a day"
As wildlife proponents in January celebrated the 30th anniversary of wolf reintroductions to Yellowstone National Park, wolves remain under fire.
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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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Seasons of Resurrection

March 19, 2025 // OPINION: Column

The great cottonwood brings renewal and rebirth with the spring equinox
As Easter nears and the vernal equinox is upon us, the concept of resurrection lives in the rebirth of nature and its beings.
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