Of ice and fire: “I was not blessed like saints of old, many of whom found a contemplative vocation at an early age,” our ...

With wildfires already raging across country, consolidated wildland fire service critics ask what problems it would solve ...

As Yellowstone National Park extends fishing season, anglers and fisheries managers consider impacts of adding spring days to ...

As Paradise Valley population swells with residents and visitors, development follows and on its heels the quest for a valuable resource: gravel. A new gravel pit proposal is spurring resident ...

Nick Mott is a multimedia journalist based in Livingston, Montana, who focuses on the environment, wildlife, climate and public lands. His reporting has been in The New York Times, NPR’s All Things ...

Montana Republican Senator Steve Daines displays a map of the Middle Judith Fork Wilderness Study Area during a Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining session on February 12. Daines ...

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 ...

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 ...

Snow piles up along the Gallatin River. Come spring, melting runoff will swell surface waters and seep into groundwater, recharging the aquifer. However, dwindling snowpacks due to climate change make ...

One of the largest national forests in America, the Bridger-Teton is a landscape that rivals most national parks. Forest Service employees are often underpaid and overworked but they do their jobs on ...

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 ...