Wolf 1090F, the alpha female of the Mollie’s Pack and now the firth-oldest known wolf in Yellowstone National Park history. Credit: Sylvia Borgonovo EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally ...

The proposed gravel pit site in Paradise Valley, shown here in the center of the photo, abuts the Yellowstone River and has residents concerned about increasing development north of Yellowstone ...

“At the end of the day, citizen-initiated zoning was the only tool we had,” Counts said.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing new rulemaking to revise the Forest Service’s travel management regulations.

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The sun was low and this Canada lynx moved through the shadows as he approached the shore of a frozen lake in southern Yukon. Its cousin, the Eurasian lynx, vanished from Great Britain about 1,300 ...

In the middle of a riffle on the Madison River, Jackson Birrell is sprawled across river rocks, pushing all his weight on a metal bucket. He’s looking for bugs. Birrell, an aquatic entomologist and ...

Four firefighters, two helicopter pilots and a contractor bulldozing a fireline have died in Colorado, Utah and Oregon this year. Wildfires have burned millions of acres and destroyed hundreds of ...

A mountain lion turns to the author’s camera. Many of MacNeil Lyons’ 35 cougar sightings have come in winter when it’s easier to track pawprints and see mountain lion sign. Shadow cat, mountain lion, ...

Prepping and burning around Trinity Guard Station during the Trinity Ridge Fire in the Boise National Forest, Idaho. August, 2012. Credit: Kari Greer Ted McClanahan had two major injuries in his ...

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 ...

The daily news about the state of our planet is overwhelming. Recent articles inform us that ocean fishing and mining practices are scraping all life off the seafloor as if none of it mattered. We ...