In the parched summer of 1988, wildfires ripped through more than one-third of Yellowstone National Park during the most severe fire year in park history. Approximately 1.2 million acres scorched by ...

In his new documentary, "Real Yellowstone," director Tom Opre considers the interlocking challenges of raising crops and livestock on the same landscape that attracts elk, buffalo, hunters and ...

Conservation groups in federal district court last week alleged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered ...

Wildland firefighter mental health is in crisis. Learn how trauma, stress, and low support systems are impacting those on the ...

The Trump administration plans to roll back the 2001 "Roadless Rule," which would revoke protection from 58 million acres of ...

In a new series, “Faces of Climate,” Mountain Journal is highlighting good work in the Greater Yellowstone. As the climate ...

In some ways, Fuller says, Yellowstone’s frontcountry today is paradoxically more harried and yet its backcountry wilder considering the restoration of those apex predators. The fact that more people ...

The broader outlook for the Park Service, and subsequently Yellowstone, is far more uncertain. The Trump administration’s ...

Mountain ski guides frequent the high alpine where whitebark pine grows. Two are using their time in the backcountry to ...

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Meanwhile, another group, Montanans for Gallatin Wilderness and its allies, want 230,000 acres elevated to wilderness status, especially the Porcupine-Buffalo Horn. Their proposal has attracted ...

Mighty mountains need no books to declare their magnificence. Human beings cannot do them adequate justice through the written word, visual interpretations or oral stories told around campfires.