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Planned Repeal of ‘Public Lands Rule’ Could Unleash Federal Resource Development
May 6, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
The Interior Department is exploring multiple ways to ‘restore American prosperity’ by capitalizing on timber, grazing, fossil fuels at the expense of conservation. It could also push billions of dollars of management costs onto state taxpayers.
Read MoreTrump Budget Proposal Portends Deep Cuts to Public Lands
May 5, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Recommendations include new consolidated wildfire service, more tasks in state hands, less science.
Read MoreA Case of Mistaken Identity? Some Hunters are Confusing Grizzlies with Black Bears
April 28, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Over the last decade, more than a dozen Greater Yellowstone grizzlies have been killed by hunters who say they mistook them for black bears.
Read MoreDEQ Denies Petition to Designate Big Hole River as Impaired
April 28, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Petitioners urge DEQ to ‘use all available science’ in considering a future impairment designation.
Read MoreForest Service Braces for Restructuring as Timber Orders Add to Workload
April 25, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Feds look to consolidate regional offices while planning to roll out new strategies over the next two months.
Read MoreAs CWD Spreads, Elk Occupancy Agreements Give Wyoming Elk Room to Roam
April 23, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Wildlife managers say winter range agreements may be one pathway to reducing deadly disease transmission among elk on feedgrounds.
Read MoreWyoming Looks to Designate Famed Path of the Pronghorn
April 21, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
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.
Read MoreHow Wyoming Sought to Stave off Wolf Torture
April 15, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Two bills in the 2025 Legislature were introduced in response to the torture and killing of a wolf in Daniel, Wyoming.
Read MoreFuture of Grizzly Bear Study Group in Dire Straits
April 14, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
As Interior Secretary Doug Burgum touts successful dire wolf revival, IGBST fights for survival.
Read MoreEnviro Groups Petition DEQ to Limit Nutrient Pollution on Big Hole River
April 10, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Petitioners say pollution-related algal blooms are threatening the Big Hole’s famed trout fishery.
Read MoreIdaho DEQ Presses Pause on Proposed Stibnite Gold Mine
April 9, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Agency requires mining company to revise water quality plan related to a gold mine that would process 120 million tons of tailings over 15 years.
Read MorePublic Opinion Boils Over as Feds Continue Slashing Jobs, Budgets
April 4, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Demonstrators attended more than 1,000 “Hands Off” protests across the nation and Greater Yellowstone.
Read MoreMontana Updates Wolf Management Playbook as Hunting Bills Advance
April 3, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Wildlife managers release first wolf management plan in 22 years, set minimum baseline population to 450.
Read MoreFederal NIH Cuts Hit Greater Yellowstone Disease Research
April 2, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Lab workers studying tick expansion lose staff, resources involved in Lyme, chronic wasting disease, coronavirus research and related threats.
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