This September, join F-11 Photographic Supplies and photographic artist Sandra Nykerk for an unparalleled photo workshop opportunity based at the spectacular B Bar Ranch just north of Yellowstone National Park.
You’ll enjoy exclusive access to the ranch property, sleep in your own mountain cabin, and enjoy gourmet meals prepared by the resident chef – all while [...]
Citing the recent rash of wolf killings in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, conservation groups asked a federal court last week to reinstate Endangered Species Act protections, while considering arguments that delisting the wolf was unlawful. The request for a court order to stop the killing was filed with a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s wolf [...]
More than half of Yellowstone National Park’s bison herd has died since last fall, forcing the government to suspend its annual slaughter program.
More than 700 of the iconic animals starved or otherwise died during an unusually harsh winter, and more than 1,600 were shot by hunters or sent to slaughterhouses in a disease-control effort, according [...]
The Carbella Bridge crossing the Yellowstone River will reopen to traffic at noon on April 28, according to Park County Commissioner Larry Lahren. The bridge has been closed since February due to damages from a car accident.
Gray wolves have entered the spin cycle.
Since March 28, when the wolf was taken off the list of federally protected species in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, a fierce battle of perceptions and posturing has unfolded on the Web and in the news media as pro-wolf and anti-wolf forces stake out sometimes hyperbolic positions concerning where [...]
Gray wolves in the Northern Rockies were removed from the endangered species list Friday, turning management over to the states of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.
The delisting follows a dramatic 13-year recovery effort that drew international attention and generated a wide spectrum of emotions, from elation at seeing the animals back in the wildlands around [...]
With heavy snow still covering the park’s vast grasslands, hundreds of bison have been leaving Yellowstone in search of food at lower elevations. A record number of the migrating animals — 1,195, or about a quarter of the park’s population — have been killed by hunters or rounded up and sent to slaughterhouses by park [...]
Montana’s wolf population increased 34 percent over the past year, to an estimated 422 wolves in 73 packs, the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks reported Thursday.
The wolves are nearly equally distributed between northern and southern Montana, according to the agency’s annual wolf report, although the bulk of the population growth was in northwestern [...]
A Montana biologist has withdrawn his claim in a recent study that a rabbit species has disappeared from the Yellowstone area.
Joel Berger, a senior scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, said Thursday that he has been contacted by at least six biologists and naturalists refuting his conclusions about the white-tailed jackrabbit. He said they provided [...]
Eleven conservation groups have notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that it violated the Endangered Species Act by removing gray wolves from the endangered species list.
The groups contend that populations in the Northern Rockies do not have adequate genetic diversity, and that the states of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming have not made meaningful commitments [...]
