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Inside the Science of Dousing Wildfires
June 10, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
In the world of aerial firefighting, one MSU professor is looking at how science can transform the multimillion dollar industry of wildfire retardant. And save lives in the process.
Read MoreBecoming Bear Aware in the West
June 4, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
As state and federal wildlife agencies debate grizzly bear management, nonprofit groups work to build bear tolerance one trash can at a time.
Read MoreWhat’s Driving the Obsession for Antlers?
May 28, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
As interest and the market for antlers soars, elk, deer and moose ‘sheds’ are selling for $13 a pound, up nearly double over the past two decades.
Read MoreCritiquing the Emperor in Grizzly Country
May 23, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Biologist David Mattson remembered for career of iconoclastic science on predators.
Read MoreThe Phantom of the Rockies
May 13, 2025 // FEATURE
Chasing wolverines on and off the endangered species list.
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 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 MoreCrazy Talk
March 27, 2025 // Book
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.
Read MoreRiver Study Offers New Angle on Yellowstone Recreation
March 26, 2025 // NEWS: In Short
The Upper
Yellowstone Watershed Group report hopes to inform better management for a
cherished regional resource.
Federal Appeals Court Sides with Corner-Crossing Hunters in Wyoming Dispute
March 19, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
A three-judge panel upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor of four hunters facing civil trespassing charges.
Read MoreSowing Uncertainty from DC Beltway to Yellowstone Gateways
March 13, 2025 // NEWS: Feature
How the
federal budget purge is impacting regional landscape conservation and
stewardship.
MSU Lyme Disease Research Squeaks Through NIH Funding Freeze
March 11, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Montana scientists join protests across the U.S. against White House interference.
Read MoreThe Fight for Wild Lands: Part 2
February 18, 2025 // MoJo Special Series
Executive orders coming from the White House could transform a range of core issues affecting Greater Yellowstone. From Forest Service and BLM priorities to national park staffing cuts, public lands advocates must brace for a long season of conflict.
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.
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