Roughly 4,000 landowners control two-thirds of the private land in the state. A recent study highlights what that means for ...

Three men face felony animal cruelty charges in southwest Wyoming for allegedly roping and riding a moose. The case is ...

Hollywood has its movie stars, and Greater Yellowstone has its charismatic megafauna. But often it’s the bit players who ...

New study compares tolerance for wolves versus tolerance for hunting them. Its survey answers might surprise you.

A Canada lynx peers through the branches in Northern Canada. Lynx thrive in Alaska and Canada but face daunting challenges in the Lower 48 where global warming, development, logging and road building ...

Snow piles up along the Gallatin River. Come spring, melting runoff will swell surface waters and seep into groundwater, recharging the aquifer. However, dwindling snowpacks due to climate change make ...

The Trump administration for the past year has been making plans for a consolidated federal wildland firefighting service. The deadlines to date have come and gone. Now, some stakeholders are claiming ...

A wolf from the Wapiti Lake Pack in Yellowstone National Park stares through the trees in fall 2025. For decades, scientists have debated the concept of the trophic cascade. New research suggests it ...

A seismic Grand Prismatic: Montana State University microbiologist Eric Boyd has studied the interaction of Yellowstone Park's oldest lifeforms and the highly active earthquake zone they may depend on ...

The Animals’ Bridge wildlife crossing over U.S. Highway 93 on the Flathead Indian Reservation near Evaro, Montana, is one of 81 ‘wildlife accommodations” built along Highway 93. Credit: Buffalo Field ...

Visitors take in the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River in the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. International visitors will be charged an additional $100 entry fee to 11 national parks including ...

Bison in the Fort Peck cultural herd graze on a foggy winter morning in February 2024. More than 800 animals spread across 33,000 acres make up the reservation’s current herd. Credit: Isabel Hicks If ...