Wilderness Watch Advocates For New Vision Of Grizzly Bear Protection
Conservation groups have banded together to release a plan for grizzly management.
- By justin.housman - February 26th, 2025 2:02am
Wildlife
Fish And Wildlife Service, BNSF Railway Reach Plan To Reduce Grizzly-Train Collisions
Years of grizzly-train collisions that have killed 75 bears between 1975 and 2023 have led to a plan aimed at reducing the deaths, some of which have occurred on the doorstep to Glacier National Park in Montana.
- By Kurt Repanshek - February 14th, 2025 2:30am
Trump Reverses Biden On Natural Resource Protections In Alaska
The partisan divide over natural resource protections took a hard shift to the right with the inauguration of President Trump, who reversed moves the Biden administration took to protect natural resources in Alaska from mining and energy development and hunting bears with baits,
- By Kurt Repanshek - January 21st, 2025 10:28am
Sunday's Podcast: Yellowstone Wolves At 30
It's been 30 years since an effort was launched early in the 1990s to return wolves to Yellowstone National Park.
- By Kurt Repanshek - January 10th, 2025 1:35pm
The Nature Conservancy Has Closure Agreements With A Dozen Ranches At Point Reyes National Seashore
A dozen ranches — six dairy and six beef — at Point Reyes National Seashore will close over the next 15 months, leading to their lands being managed for resource conservation by the National Park Service.
USFWS To Keep Grizzlies Under Endangered Species Act Protection
Grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem will not lose their protections under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday, though the agency also proposed to clarify exactly where the bears enjoy those protections.
- By Kurt Repanshek - January 8th, 2025 2:48pm
Montana Files New Year's Eve Lawsuit Over Yellowstone Bison Plan
Montana officials, saying they've not been given "a fair shake," filed a New Year's Eve lawsuit over Yellowstone National Park's bison management plan.
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- By Kurt Repanshek - January 7th, 2025 4:55am
Tourists Vs. Wildlife: The Dangers In The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
There are too many stories about Yellowstone and Grand Teton national park visitors getting in troubling situations with wildlife.
- By Kurt Repanshek - January 8th, 2025 11:27am
Elk Management Operation Closes Wind Cave National Park Backcountry
A few dozen animals will be removed from the elk herd at Wind Cave National Park in a bid to control chronic wasting disease.
- By justin.housman - December 28th, 2024 2:50am
Alaska Governor Sends "Priority List" To Trump Transition Team
Permitting the Ambler Road through Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve; giving the state of Alaska control over fish and wildlife, including within National Park System units; and discarding the National Park Service's practice of managing lands "eligible" for wilderness as official wilderness are among the requests Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has made to President-elect Donald Trump's transition team.
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- By Kurt Repanshek - January 13th, 2025 3:06pm
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