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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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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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‘A Cascading Effect’: Forest Service, Park Service Workers who Lost Jobs Amid Mass Layoffs Explain Rippling Fallout

February 20, 2025 // NEWS: Feature

In a lawsuit seeking to halt federal employee firings, the NFFE union said layoffs will threaten 500,000 federal employees
Five nationwide unions representing federal employees have gone to court in an attempt to stop workforce reductions.
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The Fight for Wild Lands: Part 2

February 18, 2025 // MoJo Special Series

The federal government employs as many as 10,000 wildland firefighters each year. With hiring freezes in place nationwide, fire season is in limbo
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.
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Trump’s Tariff Tussle Tangles Montana

February 7, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

Montana-made whiskey isn't the only commodity affected by trade with Canada
Fast-moving announcements of U.S. trade wars against Canada, Mexico and China leave state stakeholders bracing for market turmoil.
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Why ‘Yellowstone’ Became a Dirty Word to so Many Montanans

January 21, 2025 // OPINION: Essay

The complexity of reality versus fiction
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.
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The Year of the Wolves

January 3, 2025 // FEATURE: History

The 1995 reintroduction of gray wolves, in the words of those who were there
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.
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CWD Detected in Ruby Mountains and Flathead Valley

November 11, 2024 // NEWS: In Short

CWD is a highly contagious neurological disease affecting the deer family, including mule deer, white-tailed deer, elk and moose
Montana FWP urges hunters urged to help track and mitigate spread of deadly chronic wasting disease.
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The Halloween Forest

October 31, 2024 // OPINION: Essay

Spookiness in Yellowstone National Park
As the seasons change, life and death can blur illuminating the magic of nature in the pale moonlight of Halloween in Greater Yellowstone.
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Feeling Through Fire, Part 1: Mixed Emotions

August 27, 2024 // MoJo Special Series

In the moment: A lone firefighter on the 2021 Woods Creek Fire in Montana
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.
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UPDATE: Biscuit Basin Explosion Sent Debris Hundreds of Feet in Air, Deemed 'not Volcanic'

July 25, 2024

Remains of the day following the July 23 hydrothermal explosion in Yellowstone
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."
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Hearing the ‘Hush of the Land’

March 5, 2024 // MoJo Interview

Legendary outfitter Smoke Elser's new book "Hush of the Land" is published this month
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.
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As Wildfire Season Looms, Firefighters Battle Low Pay and Low Snow

February 20, 2024 // NEWS: Dispatch

Wildland firefighters on their commute to the office
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. 
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