Conservation groups are challenging the pace of the Bridger-Teton National Forest’s planned phase-out of the Alkali Creek Feedground.
Did you know that a bighorn sheep herd lives in the Tetons?
Wildlife photo contest
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s in-house magazine, Wyoming Wildlife, has put out a call for submissions for its 49th annual photo contest.
News flash: Most people enjoy Yellowstone National Park.
After several months of around-the-clock calls about bears in neighborhoods and eating garbage and crab apples, Mike Boyce is experiencing a reprieve.
Wyoming wildlife officials are about halfway through the citizen-driven process of rewriting a management plan for chronic wasting disease (CWD).
Yellowstone’s West, South and East entrances will close to vehicle traffic at 8 a.m. Monday.
The annual fall flood of blaze orange-clad hunters strolling the roads around Kelly and Antelope Flats will begin this weekend in Grand Teton National Park.
Two decades after a whirlwind of community debate, emergency petitions and a dance in the courts, scenic helicopter tours flying out of Grand Teton National Park are again being pitched and met with resistance.
Federal wildlife officials foresee and have approved growing grizzly bear bloodshed on a sprawling complex of Bridger-Teton National Forest cattle grazing allotments recently permitted for the long haul.
Members of a governor-appointed working group are among those blasting attempts by a Wyoming legislative committee to undercut wildlife managers’ authority to protect migration corridors.
Backcountry snow sports always carry an aura of uncertainty. Snow stability varies from day to day and slope to slope, unpredictable weather can sabotage any outing, and complex psychological factors govern reactions at every turn.
The National Park Service is eying a replacement of a Yellowstone River bridge along the Northeast Entrance Road near Tower.
The Bridger-Teton National Forest’s top employee is stepping away for the early part of the winter to assume second-in-command duties at the U.S. Forest Service’s regional office, spokeswoman Mary Cernicek said.
Refuge ‘step-down’ plan
A detailed plan to scale back elk feeding on the National Elk Refuge is out for public review after more than two decades in the making.
Although a shift in the bison- and elk-feeding regime on the National Elk Refuge could mark the most substantial change in the controversial program’s 107-year history, the move has triggered little public reaction so far.
Debate over the fate of Wyoming’s migration corridors dominated a packed natural resource committee meeting Wednesday in Casper.
Details are still fuzzy, but Grand Teton National Park will allow “qualified volunteers” to assist with the effort to eradicate 100 or so invasive mountain goats in the Teton Range.
Jorn Vangoidtsenhoven was walking down a rutted U.S. Forest Service road just minutes from where he’d parked his camper near Spread Creek when curiosity drew him into potential peril.
Goat killing plan approved
Grand Teton National Park has given final approval to plans to rapidly remove mountain goats by lethal and nonlethal means.
Environmental activists are sounding the alarm over a proposed bill that they say would strip wildlife managers of their ability to protect the land for the good of migrating deer, elk and pronghorn.
An updated plan to restore the health of the Flat Creek watershed aims to build on the progress of the 2006 original by pursuing more stormwater and habitat improvement projects in the coming years.
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Jackson Hole Airport has dipped into a nearly $3 billion pot from Volkswagen’s emissions-cheating settlement to purchase a new combined plow truck and ice-clearing runway broom.
A former Teton County wolf whose southerly travels beyond the Wyoming border made headlines this past summer is mostly staying put, biologists say.
The “rock” started moving in Billy Arnold’s peripheral vision Monday morning while his head was down as he scrolled on his phone on the way to get some breakfast cereal.
For months this year, developer Christopher Swann held out hope that he could hold back the Snake River’s raging springtime flows using strategically placed boulders covered in topsoil and willow saplings.
Grand Teton National Park has given final approval to plans to rapidly remove mountain goats by lethal and nonlethal means.
Refuge ‘step-down’ plan out
A detailed plan to scale back elk feeding on the National Elk Refuge is out for public review after more than two decades in the making.
A new report from an environmental advocacy group lists Grand Teton National Park as among the dozen parks most threatened by the hurried pace of energy leasing and drilling taking place under the Trump administration.
A new lawsuit claims the U.S. Forest Service is breaking a multitude of federal laws by allowing current levels of motorized and mechanized recreation in its Shoal Creek and Palisades wilderness study areas.
Grade schoolers filled the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center on Friday, preparing to meet the nation’s first lady.
A new lawsuit claims the U.S. Forest Service is breaking a multitude of federal laws by allowing current levels of motorized and mechanized recreation in its Shoal Creek and Palisades wilderness study areas.
Refuge ‘step-down’ plan out for comment
A detailed plan to scale back elk feeding on the National Elk Refuge is out for public review after more than two decades in the making.
Land management agencies will take advantage of cooling temperatures and wet weather this month to set fire to brush piles and prescribed burn areas before winter sets in.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department will eliminate the legally embattled Alkali Creek elk feedground in coming years as the threat of chronic wasting disease looms.
Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon has selected a Jackson Hole businessman and avid hunter to chair a policy team that will be part of the governor’s Invasive Species Initiative.
A young female grizzly bear that likely shares the bloodlines of a celebrated Grand Teton National Park sow is now roaming clear across the ecosystem near Beartooth Pass.
Teton Valley, Idaho, resident and archery hunter Mark Eagan put in nearly 60 miles traipsing through the Tetons this summer scouting for a quarry he would have the opportunity to hunt come August.
First lady Melania Trump will arrive in Jackson on Thursday, her first official trip to Jackson Hole since her husband, President Donald Trump, took office in 2017.
A detailed plan to scale back elk feeding on the National Elk Refuge is out for public review after more than two decades in the making.
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Federal officials whose job it is to review and authorize the transformation of Snow King Mountain have released bare-bones versions of four blueprints being considered for the ski area.
The Pinedale and Afton elk herds are western Wyoming’s two first “priority herds” that will be exhaustively tested for chronic wasting disease, and wildlife managers want a little help from hunters.
A lethal ungulate sickness that is inexorably expanding westward across Wyoming has officially infected a famous population of mule deer that grow to trophy proportions in the Wyoming Range.
Enhanced nuclear test range planned
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho office is planning to expand the capabilities at Idaho National Laboratory’s security test and radiological response training ranges.
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The recently departed superintendent of Grand Teton National Park is now calling the shots as the “acting” director of the National Park Service, overseeing more than 27,000 employees and 419 parks, monuments and other “units.”
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A 48-year-old man is in critical condition after suffering severe burns across his body from falling into thermal water Sunday night near the cone of Old Faithful Geyser.
More than three years after first filing suit, environmental attorneys continue to make the case that wildlife throughout Grand Teton National Park are subject to National Park Service policies that prohibit hunting.
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Dozens of square miles of the Bridger-Teton National Forest infested with invasive cheatgrass will soon be sprayed from the air.
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