Touching wild animals, especially in National Parks, is both dangerous and illegal. Even so, many people make headlines every year for getting far too close to potentially threatening animals.

Birds gain habitat, smaller mammals benefit, and even plant communities can recover.

If not for a series of tones broadcasting her location, no one would’ve known she had died. Like dozens of other Yellowstone National Park wolves involved in a three-decade-long study, researchers ...

The famed Mollie’s Pack was just “looking for food” when it left Yellowstone to den on the Shoshone National Forest, a ...

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Leslie Patten hiked into a remote reach of northwest Wyoming’s Sunlight Basin in December to post a trail camera where she’d earlier seen wolf tracks. At the time, a winter closure was fast ...

The Mollie’s Pack is Yellowstone's oldest wolf pack and includes the famous Wolf 1090F. The pack has strayed outside the park ...

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Editor’s note: This story first appeared in Mountain Journal. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — Around Crystal Creek, where the road bridges the Lamar River at the fringe of Yellowstone National Park’s ...