A Greater Yellowstone grizzly, part of just two healthy populations of grizzly bears in the Lower 48. What effect do mountain bikes have on wilderness and bears? For scientists who study them, there ...

Big Hole to serve as testing ground for new water-quality regulations in response to bill barring state regulators from using ...

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 ...

In the five years Cam Sholly has been at the helm of Yellowstone National Park as its current superintendent, he has faced down the highest visitation year the park has ever experienced, running ...

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 ...

Famous wildlife artist Sir Edwin Landseer’s portrayal of a wounded stag being attacked by two dogs in the water. Image use courtesy Creative Commons license ...

Alex Heard is a freelance writer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has worked as an editor at Outside, Wired, and The New ...

The Flying D Ranch is a sprawling conservation-oriented ranch, photographed here in August of 2023. Now-retired cable television titan Ted Turner owns the property, which spans nearly 114,000 acres in ...

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 ...

Late in 2019 at a book signing event in Gardiner, Montana for the new atlas of stories and photographs commemorating the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, I gave a review of my involvement with the ...

In deep-red Idaho and Wyoming, a new breed of single-issue political action committee is turning a bipartisan cause into primary-season firepower.

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 ...