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Idaho 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 More'Tools to Save Our Home Planet'
April 4, 2025 // Book Review

A new book from Patagonia offers time-tested guidance on grassroots environmental activism. Here’s how it could benefit rural communities.
Read MoreYellowstone Gateway Town Fears for Future amid Trump Funding Cuts
April 1, 2025

Shutting down federal funding through the Park Service could cripple Gardiner, Montana.
Read MoreInside the Battle Over the ESA
March 31, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

Since the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, has it been a winning or losing proposition? It depends on who you ask.
Read MoreHow Deep Does It Go? Future of Area Water Monitoring in Question
March 21, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

With USGS offices in Greater Yellowstone among dozens of regional government buildings on the chopping block, DOGE savings efforts leave anglers wondering if streamflow monitors will survive.
Read MoreIf the Forest Falls
March 17, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

Timber industry analysts wonder if they can keep up with Trump logging orders.
Read MoreProper Protection or Perverse Incentive? Orgs Challenge ESA Process
March 14, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

Two Montana nonprofits have filed suit against the Endangered Species Act’s ‘Blanket Rule.’
Read MoreLabor Board Temporarily Reinstates Laid-off Forest Service Workers’ Employment
March 7, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

The order by the Merit Systems Protection Board gives USDA five days to comply with a stay on the workforce reduction.
Read MoreEmbracing ‘Salmon Weather’
March 4, 2025 // Book Review

An Idaho author’s awe-inspiring personal narratives challenge our notions of the West.
Read MoreConservation Groups File Notice to Sue Feds Over New Gold Mine
February 26, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

The Stibnite project site would be the fourth-largest gold operation in the U.S. by grade, and the only domestic source of mined antimony.
Read MoreGrizzlies: Double Vision
February 25, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch

With the Endangered Species Act comment period ending March 17, states and advocates are at odds over the future of grizzly bears.
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 3
February 19, 2025 // MoJo Special Series

The U.S. Constitution gives citizens the right to “petition the government for a redress of grievances.” As a blizzard of public lands change sweeps out of Washington, D.C., activists around Greater Yellowstone ponder tactics to help them keep what they hold dear.
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.
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