As president rolls out new conservation policies, a recent study suggests surcharges on international tourists to Yellowstone ...

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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 ...

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 proposed 2026 budget includes a $1.2 billion cut to the NPS, the largest in ...

Mountain Journal is dedicated to providing meaningful, fact-based journalism. We serve and inform the public about a key ...

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 ...

Bison group on the move at sunrise in Lamar Valley. NPS / Jacob W. Frank In the coming months, Yellowstone National Park, as part of the Interagency Bison Management Plan adopted with the state of ...