From snowplowing to trail clearing, local organizations take on growing share of public lands maintenance as feds cut back ...

Local wildlife filmmaker Casey Anderson placed a camera in a cave in 2015. He recovered it in 2025. Now he reflects on risk, ...

Historically a federal day of service with free entry to national parks, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is no longer a free-access day. Oh, and neither is Juneteenth.

UM climate professor makes space for both in his college classroom, finds humor can be an effective teaching tool ...

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Yellowstone National Park officials are asking for public input to weigh plans to rebuild the park’s North Entrance Road, a ...

Study shows that partisan misperceptions about opponents may lead to conflict, even when consensus is possible ...

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

Two yearlings look up from playing on a fall 2024 day in Greater Yellowstone. The moose abuse case in southwest Wyoming is conjuring up a negative image of the state as it grapples with another animal ...

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 ...