How the
federal budget purge is impacting regional landscape conservation and
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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 MoreWill Federal Freeze Stymie Wildland Fire Fights?
March 4, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Delays in hiring crews and funding hazardous fuels projects worry officials as the 2025 fire season approaches.
Read More‘A Cascading Effect’: Forest Service, Park Service Workers who Lost Jobs Amid Mass Layoffs Explain Rippling Fallout
February 20, 2025 // NEWS: Feature
Five nationwide unions representing federal employees have gone to court in an attempt to stop workforce reductions.
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 MoreTrump’s Tariff Tussle Tangles Montana
February 7, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Fast-moving announcements of U.S. trade wars against Canada, Mexico and China leave state stakeholders bracing for market turmoil.
Read MoreWhy ‘Yellowstone’ Became a Dirty Word to so Many Montanans
January 21, 2025 // OPINION: Essay
No one ever claimed the hit cowboy soap opera was aiming for realism. But for Montana locals, the show’s many day-to-day inaccuracies are hard to swallow.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreCWD Detected in Ruby Mountains and Flathead Valley
November 11, 2024 // NEWS: In Short
Montana FWP urges hunters urged to help track and mitigate spread of deadly chronic wasting disease.
Read MoreThe Halloween Forest
October 31, 2024 // OPINION: Essay
As the seasons change, life and death can blur illuminating
the magic of nature in the pale moonlight of Halloween in Greater Yellowstone.
Feeling Through Fire, Part 1: Mixed Emotions
August 27, 2024 // MoJo Special Series
In Part 1 of our series, wildland firefighters
explore the emotional contradictions of fire and a job that demands more than
just 16-hour days.
UPDATE: Biscuit Basin Explosion Sent Debris Hundreds of Feet in Air, Deemed 'not Volcanic'
July 25, 2024
After a hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park's Biscuit Basin destroyed a park boardwalk and sent visitors scrambling, NPS and USGS geologists say the explosion "was not caused by volcanic activity."
Read MoreHearing the ‘Hush of the Land’
March 5, 2024 // MoJo Interview
Smoke
Elser and Eva-Maria Maggi discuss their new book, Hush of the Land,
chronicling decades of mule-packing trips in the Bob Marshall Wilderness.
As Wildfire Season Looms, Firefighters Battle Low Pay and Low Snow
February 20, 2024 // NEWS: Dispatch
The
Wildland Firefighter Paycheck Protection Act could permanently raise federal
firefighter salaries. But even if Congress can pass it, the proposed
legislation still isn’t a perfect fix.