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The Fight for Wild Lands: Part 1
February 17, 2025 // MoJo Special Series
As organizers prepare for the biennial Rally for Public Lands, the conservation world faces down a changing climate, an administration determined to dismantle environmental protections, and its own internal contradictions.
Read MoreIn Response to 2024 Wolf Torture, Killing, Wyoming Seeks to Write New Chapter
February 6, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Two bills in the Wyoming Legislature seek to outlaw cruelty to predatory animals.
Read MoreGrizzly Bear ESA Status in Question as FWS Cancels Public Meetings
January 27, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pulls out of all four meetings intended to explain its decision to retain grizzlies’ threatened status.
Read MoreMyth-Busting and the Great Gray Wolf
January 26, 2025 // NEWS: Feature
As we look back on the 30 years since the wolf was reintroduced in Yellowstone, we examine what wolves are and what they aren’t.
Read MoreForest Service Authorizes Controversial Crazy Mountain Land Swap
January 20, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
A handful of conservation easements and deed restrictions are incorporated in the Forest Service’s final iteration of the East Crazy Inspiration Divide Land Exchange.
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.
Feds Buy Kelly Parcel, Conserving Last of Unprotected Land in GTNP
January 6, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
‘Decades-in-the-making’ $100 million purchase adds 640 acres to Grand Teton National Park, while protecting a key Greater Yellowstone wildlife
migration corridor.
The Year of the Wolves
January 3, 2025 // FEATURE: History
Thirty years ago this month, gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho. Today, the people who made it happen remember the mayhem and magic of one of the 20th century’s most controversial acts of ecosystem management.
Read MoreUnpacking a ‘Uniquely Mysterious’ Development Proposal in Paradise Valley
December 10, 2024 // NEWS: Dispatch
Park County residents grapple with a high-density resort proposal in an agricultural area south of Livingston.
Read MoreThe Mother We Shared: Reflections on the Life of Bear 399
October 30, 2024 // OPINION: Essay
An author and first responder weighs
the magnitude of the impact 399 had on her enamored followers, and examines how
we can bridge the gap for bears and other wildlife as we walk forward without
the Queen of the Tetons.
Grizzly Bear 399 Struck, Killed by Vehicle South of Jackson
October 23, 2024
Known as the Matriarch of the Tetons, 399 was a 28-year-old who lived her life primarily in Grand Teton National Park and was arguably the most famous bear in the world.
Wolf-Abuse Incident Prompts New Wyoming Bill
September 25, 2024 // NEWS: In Short
Draft bill protects the right to run down predators, with
updated laws to limit ongoing suffering. Citizens say bill doesn’t go far
enough.
'Walking Among Giants': A Writer’s Introduction to the Grizzly Bear
September 23, 2024
In the
prologue to his new book, Grizzly Confidential, author Kevin Grange discusses how he came to love North
America’s mighty bears.
Mountain Bikers Push to Ride Through Wilderness
July 23, 2024 // OPINION: Op-ed
In June, Utah Sen. Mike Lee introduced a bill to allow mountain bikes in Wilderness areas. In his op-ed, Kevin Proescholdt writes that weakening Wilderness protections is a slippery slope.
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