Although Congress hasn’t provided budget or authority for consolidated firefighting force, opposition to new plan appears ...

Claims that wolves have rescued Yellowstone National Park aspen trees through a ‘trophic cascade’ oversimplify a complex ...

Led by Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke and Virginia Rep. Don Beyer, Congressional bill aims to extend nation’s only federal program ...

Scientists in the Cooley Lab at MSU in the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology are infecting ticks with the bacteria borrelia, the primary cause of Lyme disease, which allows them to study how ...

Public comment on rule changes affecting critical habitat, extended protections and economic impact due December 22 ...

Visitation fees for international visitors to Yellowstone and Glacier national parks are slated to increase substantially in ...

A westslope cutthroat trout in the Blackfoot River in western Montana. Montana’s state fish is the blackspotted cutthroat, an amalgamation of the westlope and the Yellowstone cutthroat, now known as ...

An apparent mistake that led at least 3,000 Gallatin County taxpayers to collectively overpay more than $8.5 million in property taxes over four years has carried impacts to budgets and has left ...

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 ...

Wire winders like this one do the work of 20 volunteer workers in removing hazardous barbed wire for wildlife-friendly fencing projects. With federal workers furloughed since October 1 over a ...

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