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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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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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Considering Grizzlies, Judge Stalls Grazing Plan North of Yellowstone

April 11, 2025 // NEWS: In Short

High ground in Paradise above grazelands
In a win for environmental coalition, wildlife agencies ordered to review livestock grazing impacts on grizzly bears.
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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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Crazy Talk

March 27, 2025 // Book

The Crazy Mountains from Paradise Valley, Montana
In her new book on Crazy Mountain property battles, journalist Amy Gamerman explores the contrasting values of cattle, renewable energy and wilderness altering an ancient landscape.
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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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Proper Protection or Perverse Incentive? Orgs Challenge ESA Process

March 14, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

Centennial Valley, Montana, west of Yellowstone National Park
Two Montana nonprofits have filed suit against the Endangered Species Act’s ‘Blanket Rule.’
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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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MSU Lyme Disease Research Squeaks Through NIH Funding Freeze

March 11, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

MSU's microbiology lab received a $2.8 million grant for Lyme disease research
Montana scientists join protests across the U.S. against White House interference.
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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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Will Federal Freeze Stymie Wildland Fire Fights?

March 4, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

Firefighters hold the line at the September 2018 Roosevelt Fire near Bondurant, Wyoming
Delays in hiring crews and funding hazardous fuels projects worry officials as the 2025 fire season approaches.
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