A federal judge has ordered the Bridger-Teton National Forest to re-examine its decision allowing the Wyoming Game and Fish Department to feed elk on 91 acres of national forest perched above the Gros Ventre River.
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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department on Monday released new details about the fatal mauling of hunting guide Mark Uptain last weekend, including that bear spray was deployed.
The grizzly bears suspected of fatally mauling outfitter Mark Uptain were trapped and killed early Sunday near the elk carcass that caused conflict on Terrace Mountain.
Dry, windy conditions resulted in an array of wildfires over the weekend.
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UPDATE, 4:15 p.m. Saturday — A Jackson Hole businessman, hunting guide and father of five was found dead Saturday afternoon near where he was attacked while retrieving a client’s elk carcass Friday afternoon.
The Bridger-Teton National Forest has started cutting trees to reduce the risk of wildfire reaching private homes in the Phillips Ridge area on Teton Pass as part of the Teton to Snake Fuels Reduction Project.
Grizzly bear deaths in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem continue to climb into record territory with 2018 on track to become the deadliest year for bears since they were listed as threatened in 1975.
Taken together, a bundle of modifications being considered on Snow King Mountain are the most monumental changes in the ski area’s nearly 80-year history, its management says.
BLM to auction 780,000 acres
The Bureau of Land Management in Wyoming has released its initial environmental analysis for its fourth-quarter oil and gas lease sale, totaling 581 proposed lease parcels on 780,000-plus acres of federal land.
Two parcels initially marked for sale in the Red Desert-to-Hoback mule deer migration corridor are no longer being considered for lease.
An organization whose charge will be to support the Bridger-Teton National Forest has made its first hire and is in the earliest phases of assembling.
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If you’re trying to eke out the last bit of summer’s marrow, planning is key. Here are the last open dates for Grand Teton National Park facilities and services.
The Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce and Community Foundation of Jackson Hole are promising to buy 100 percent “green power” from Lower Valley Energy.
About 143 households in Buffalo Valley will soon be able to reliably connect to the internet at speeds the rest of the country has enjoyed for years.
It was all accolades following the announcement Friday of David Vela’s nomination to lead the Trump administration’s National Park Service.
Teton County elected officials have ordered a last-ditch resuscitation of what was supposed to be a collaborative effort to shape the future of federal public lands around Jackson Hole.
Volunteers scramble up and down the steep moraines of the Schoolroom Glacier, a small mass of moving ice hidden behind the central peaks of the Teton Range.
Golden grasses sway at hip height in the fields along Mormon Row in Grand Teton National Park.
A federal judge ordered Idaho and Wyoming to stall their first grizzly hunts in decades for 14 days after a lengthy hearing on removing the bears’ Endangered Species Act protections.
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The Teton County Health Department and the Teton Conservation District want the public to gather for a discussion about drinking water quality in Hoback Junction.
Teton County elected officials plan to ask federal land managers to grant the public more time to digest and weigh in on the overhaul proposed for Snow King Mountain.
Grand Teton National Park Superintendent David Vela has been nominated to serve as the next director of the National Park Service.
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Grand Teton National Park Superintendent David Vela has been nominated to serve as the next director of the National Park Service.
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the opening of the first grizzly bear hunts in the Rocky Mountains in more than 40 years, as he considers whether the government was wrong to lift federal protections on the animals.
A private club that meanders along the Snake River south of Jackson is being required to secure after-the-fact permits for building an unauthorized levee, berm, ponds and a bridge.
Orphaning mountain lion kittens is not a good thing.
A dusting on Togwotee Pass. Death Canyon Shelf frosted white. Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s Bridger Gondola shrouded by a blizzard.
Four convection columns of smoke rose more than 20,000 feet into the air as high winds whipped across eerily empty walkways around Old Faithful Inn.
As conservationists await a court date that could stall a proposed Sept. 1 Wyoming grizzly bear hunt, potential shooters last week took a mandatory two-hour grizzly bear ecology class that included instructions on how to make a clean kill.
Biologists applied a chemical piscicide to Kelly Warm Spring last week to kill invasive fish crowding the Grand Teton National Park waterway after decades of illegal dumping.
Celebrate wildlife crossings
The Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance’s summer block party is happening today and will celebrate wildlife crossings.
The free event is scheduled for 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Center for the Arts.
See JHAlliance.org/event/blockparty for details.
A Jonah Energy gas field, potentially worth $18 billion, has cleared its final Bureau of Land Management regulatory hurdle with no required protections for pronghorn that summer in Jackson Hole.
A refuse-gobbling black bear that’s evaded traps in the Spring Gulch area has some residents riled up over their neighbors’ illegal use of non-bear-resistant trash cans.
Hoback Nation and Redtop Meadows residents were treated to minor rumbling Wednesday morning, the result of an earthquake that was the largest and latest in a series of quakes that have shaken the Snake River Range.
Visitors are flocking to String and Leigh lakes in growing numbers with no signs of crowds waning anytime soon.
Three coalitions of conservation groups have made a last-minute plea to halt the sale of more than 15,000 acres of oil and gas leases that overlap a 150-mile mule deer migration corridor that ends in the Hoback.
Construction of the North Highway 89 roundabout will temporarily prevent southbound motorists from turning left onto Gros Ventre Road.
Eyewitnesses say disease is likely what killed four wolf pups found dead on and near trails in the Horse Creek area south of Jackson late last week.
A construction crew from Powell has started work rebuilding a quarter-mile stretch of Greys River Road that was obliterated by a midwinter landslide.
Authorities are releasing few details about four wolf pups discovered dead late last week on public land south of Jackson.
Wildlife managers are killing non-native fish to make room for native species in the upper Gibbon River drainage in Yellowstone National Park.
The flashing message sign warning of baby ospreys on the highway along the West Bank isn’t just for kicks.
Funds have been secured to install two new weather stations in the Tetons before winter.
Yellowstone-area grizzly bears are dying at a record clip ahead of the first legal hunt in 44 years, though scientists and managers say they need more data to judge the mortality’s significance.
Elected officials and the residents they represent are tasked in the coming month with judging three plans that propose a future for wide swaths of Teton County’s vast federal lands.
A Jackson Hole resident whose bid for the U.S. Senate seat will be made or broken next week says he would staunchly defend the federal government’s role in managing public lands.
For more than a month Teton park climbing rangers and scientists made daily stops to measure how much a disruptive fissure in the rock face above Hidden Falls was moving.
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