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LATEST NEWS FROM THE NETWORK
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Trump Budget Proposal Portends Deep Cuts to Public Lands
May 05, 2025
Recommendations include new consolidated wildfire service, more tasks in state hands, less science.
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Considering Grizzlies, Judge Stalls Grazing Plan North of Yellowstone
April 11, 2025
In a win for environmental coalition, wildlife agencies ordered to review livestock grazing impacts on grizzly bears.
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Federal NIH Cuts Hit Greater Yellowstone Disease Research
April 02, 2025
Lab workers studying tick expansion lose staff, resources involved in Lyme, chronic wasting disease, coronavirus research and related threats.
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The Fight For Wild Lands: Part 3
February 19, 2025
As a blizzard of public lands change sweeps out of Washington, D.C., activists around Greater Yellowstone ponder tactics to help them keep what they hold dear.
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The Fight for Wild Lands: Part 2
February 18, 2025
Executive orders coming from the White House could transform a range of core issues affecting Greater Yellowstone.
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The Fight for Wild Lands: Part 1
February 17, 2025
As organizers prepare for the Rally for Public Lands, the conservation world faces down a changing climate, a new administration, and its own internal contradictions.
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Trump’s Tariff Tussle Tangles Montana
February 07, 2025
Fast-moving announcements of U.S. trade wars against Canada, Mexico and China leave state stakeholders bracing for market turmoil.
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Runaway Runways
January 31, 2025
Nonstop flights from big East Coast cities are just one indicator of the Greater Yellowstone region’s rising popularity as a tourism target.
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Montana Preps for Potential Grizzly Bear Delisting
September 27, 2024
State Fish, Wildlife and Parks releases final EIS proposing statewide grizzly management plan.
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Wyoming Moose, Cattle Test Positive for Anthrax
September 19, 2024
State Game and Fish Department confirms first case of anthrax in Wyoming wildlife in decades.
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Montana Lays Plans for Federally Funded Wildlife Overpass
August 19, 2024
Application period for projects mitigating vehicle-wildlife collisions closes Sept. 4
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As Feds Delay Decision on Grizzly Protections, Montana and Wyoming Threaten Lawsuits
August 08, 2024
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pushed its decision timeline to January 2025. States want an update by the end of October.
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Yellowstone Visitor Gets Jail Time for Trespassing on Park Thermal Feature
June 13, 2024
Washington man sentenced to week in jail and fined after walking off boardwalk toward world’s tallest active geyser.
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Yellowstone Tourism Leaving Massive Carbon Footprint
April 23, 2024
Striking new study quantifies Yellowstone tourism emissions. TLDR: It’s a lot of CO2.
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Can a Groundwater Recharge Program Save Teton Valley’s Farmers?
April 08, 2024
In Teton Valley, Idaho, where water is as precious as its native trout, irrigators and environmental groups have teamed up to recharge the area’s diminishing aquifer. In the process, they want to do something novel: find someone to pay farmers for the effort.
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