At the end of May, BLM released its plan to cut Wyoming’s wild horse population by nearly half. Current estimates suggest ...

In the first six months of that year, 19,358 wildfires burned 584,000 acres in the United States. Already in 2025, nearly ...

The Forest Service released its 201-page Congressional Justification budget statement on June 8. It goes into much greater ...

I enjoy tramping in the mountains solo. Each time, once I’m well away from trailheads, my pace slows to a meditative meander. I open to the signature of each beloved place: its scents, a particular ...

Wyoming’s top predators could be facing more pressure this fall. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is proposing to raise ...

In the coming months, Yellowstone National Park, as part of the Interagency Bison Management Plan adopted with the state of Montana in 2000, intends to reduce the current size of the park's bison herd ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: For the record, a majority of Mountain Journal staff and board members are, or have been, dog owners. We adore our mutts but we are also pro-wildlife. This is the first of several ...

I still love the U.S. Forest Service. Actually, I should qualify that: as an American woman of color who has had a lifelong passion for ecology and conserving natural resources, I love the idea of the ...

For many years the U.S. Forest Service was considered one of the best federal agencies to work for. To those who don’t know, the service originated as a conservation agency, devoted to watershed ...

Up in the Far US North, he spent months studying grizzlies on the tundra, sleeping out in a tent on nights when the summer sun barely dipped below the horizon. On the other side of the thin wall of ...

Filmmaker Ray Paunovich and soundman Kevin Sanders ventured into Yellowstone National Park’s Hayden Valley, accompanied by packhorses laden with expensive camera equipment. It was August 7, 1992, and ...

Steven Fuller has reached his 49 th consecutive New Year’s Day morning in Yellowstone. He arrived in America's first national park 50 years ago in 1973. In years' past, he's often greeted a new annum ...