The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has again turned down local biologists’ proposal to add birds to a tiny, isolated sage grouse population that dwells up the Gros Ventre River basin in order to avert its total collapse.

After several decidedly wintry weeks marked by flurries, powder days and even some storms, the snowpack in the Snake River basin is weighing in ... right about where it normally would the last week of February.

Looking to boost income from Wyoming-owned property in Jackson Hole at the behest of state lawmakers, land managers plan to solicit development proposals for three parcels in 2022.

A Centennial Mountains gold exploration proposal that had been halted due to uncertainty about impacts to an imperiled native trout population is reemerging before the Caribou-Targhee National Forest.

The daily morning feeding of 7,000 or so wapiti on the National Elk Refuge began for the winter on Wednesday, after animals started to get antsy as the grasses they graze on waned.

The run on 800-plus freshly reservable campsites in Grand Teton National Park was significant, but worries that all the park’s tent pads would be swooped up within hours were mostly unfounded.

While isolated hot spots of nitrates plague groundwater in Jackson Hole, the pollutant doesn’t yet pose a problem in much of the valley.

A Lincoln County court clerk has been appointed to fill a Wyoming Game and Fish Commission seat that was left vacant early this week after Gov. Mark Gordon removed Mike Schmid.

Calls for a proactive “warning system” that would inform residents when nitrate levels in drinking water are charting toward dangerous territory had some traction with the Teton District Board of Health.

Though the mountains in California are set to see anywhere from 3 to 5 feet of snow in the next few days, the forecast for Jackson Hole is slightly less epic.

A branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture tasked with killing coyotes, foxes, jackrabbits and other “nuisance wildlife” in the Equality State has completed a yearslong planning process and will continue its business-as-usual lethal methods.

Wildlife managers have documented chronic wasting disease in a new swath of the Green River basin.

Land managers along the west side of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem are weighing a proposal to open parts of the Centennial Mountains so members of the Yellowstone Club can go backcountry skiing with helicopters.