The latest Yellowstone Resources and Issues Handbook lacks climate change section for the first time in nearly two decades ...

The U.S. Forest Service will move its headquarters from Washington, D.C. to Salt Lake City as part of an agency-wide ...

On heels of 2021 legislative mandate, Montana hunters and trappers in 2025-26 harvested lowest numbers in a decade ...

A new lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service starts with a straightforward claim: A proposed project to help whitebark pine ...

Credit: Jon Trapp As wildfires burned 1.4 million acres before the first day of spring this year, federal firefighters ...

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Calls to consolidate Forest Service, Interior firefighters stalled in 2025, but may revive as 2026 weather forecasts heat up ...

Oliver Payne, a buffalo wrangler, looks into the semi truck to see how many bison are left in zero-degree weather at Turtle Mound Ranch near Wolf Point, Montana, on February 19, 2026. The Fort Peck ...

A view of public lands in Teton County, taken from north of Jackson, Wyoming, and looking west from Bridger-Teton National Forest land into Grand Teton National Park. Credit: Howie Garber As threats ...

Pronghorn antelope pass over U.S. Highway 191 at the Trapper’s Point wildlife crossing outside of Pinedale, Wyoming, near the 6,000-year-old “Path of the Pronghorn” migration route. The Trapper’s ...

Two Wyoming outdoorsmen launched the political action committee Protect Wyoming to further force the issues of federal public-land management and science-informed wildlife management. Credit: Craig ...

One of the largest bull moose in the Tetons tests the air for receptive females during the annual moose rut. Developed in the first half of the 20th century, the North American Model of Wildlife ...