Fast-drying vegetation, unseasonably warm temperatures and a crush of tourists have convinced Teton Interagency Fire officials to elevate the fire danger to “high” weeks earlier than normal.
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Access on the Moose-Wilson Road in Grand Teton National Park will be limited over the next couple of days as the park service performs seasonal maintenance work.
Federal wildlife managers are asking wildlife watchers to stay away from Togwotee Pass for the rest of June while they haze a well-known grizzly sow from sunup to sundown anytime she nears the highway.
The National Elk Refuge is proposing its first-ever white-tailed deer and pronghorn antelope hunts.
In Jackson, the month of June is off to a blistering start.
More people than ever visited Jackson Hole in late May and early June, and those who spent their stay camping were pretty crummy about extinguishing their fires.
Evidence continues to pile up of an unprecedented onslaught of people pouring into Jackson Hole and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem this summer.
Despite a stream of public comment from water quality advocates urging the Teton County Board of County Commissioners to hire a water quality expert, a majority of the board is sticking to its guns.
Wyoming fisheries managers are taking steps to ensure that water remains in a handful of Wind River tributaries that provide crucial habitat for the watershed’s struggling native Yellowstone cutthroat trout.
An esteemed wolf biologist and an avid Jackson Hole naturalist are the recipients of two Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative awards that celebrate conservation biology and citizen science.
The end of May was rainy in Teton County, but that isn’t expected to change the federal drought forecast for the area and a potentially busy fire season.
New legislation spearheaded by U.S. Sen. John Barrasso proposes to do away with permit fees for small film crews and social media influencers shooting video on most federal land.
A hiker who set out alone outside the Mammoth Hot Springs area on Friday morning was badly injured in an encounter with a grizzly bear.
In summer 2016, the late John Prine serenaded hundreds of Yellowstone revelers in Gardiner, Montana.
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An every-other-year confab that convenes scientists and wildlife enthusiasts to learn about research and conservation efforts aiding animals in northwest Wyoming is going live this Wednesday.
Public comment closes today on Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s proposal to double its allotment of guided backcountry “user days” south of its boundaries, a push that has some people concerned about crowding and impacts on the Tetons’ sensitive bighorn sheep herd.
A skinny snowpack and slow melt that’s being blunted by cool temperatures and historically dry soil has hydrologists and water managers forecasting a light runoff year in Jackson Hole.
It’s well known that grizzly bears that grow up roadside in Grand Teton National Park tend to habituate to being around people.
The spate of infractions law enforcement officers typically encounter during the annual opening of antler hunting season — mostly trespass and people jumping the gun — mostly vaporized this year.
If the weather holds and allows for it, Yellowstone National Park will open its East Entrance at 8 a.m. Friday, allowing access to and from Cody.
There’s been ample speculation of an unprecedented wave of tourists soon to break over Jackson Hole. So, local economist and Jackson Town Councilor Jonathan Schechter wants to get everyone together to talk about it.
The Bridger-Teton National Forest has proposed a suite of projects for its trail crews to tackle during the summer of 2021, including reroutes, some heavy maintenance and one all-new system route.
Cyclists looking for a quiet, car-free, early-season ride should cross Yellowstone National Park’s South Gate off their list.
The flip of the calendar to May on Saturday brings with it the usual seasonal changes in Northwest Wyoming.
National Elk Refuge officials say they’re working to rectify rampant disregard for the seasonal closure of the multi-use pathway that parallels Highway 89 and the refuge fence.
Elk populations in Wyoming’s major herds are nearly 30% over objective, Wyoming Game and Fish Department personnel revealed as their governing commission approved hunting seasons and nearly 2,000 additional licenses Wednesday.
Jackson Hole Airport Board President John Eastman showed Tony Chambers a map of where he said he’d fly his helicopter alongside overlain lines that displayed where he actually flew.
Whisper Camel-Means knows how disruptive highways can be to animal habitats. The tribal wildlife biologist has dedicated her career to safety measures designed to allow animals to safely cross highways.
Federal and state agencies have sorted out discombobulation that led to an awfully confusing 2020 onset to the popular antler gathering season in western Wyoming.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission is holding a rare meeting in Jackson this week.
CHEYENNE — On the final Friday of the 2021 Legislative Session, members of the Joint Agriculture Committee met to map out goals for the coming months. Talk turned to state forest health, concerns about trespass law and worries about thousands of wild horses inhabiting the western reaches of …
This week, wildland firefighters will begin a series of prescribed burns at four locations southwest of Wilson in the Teton to Snake Fuels Reduction Project area.
Federal scientists who track grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem are revising a key criterion that underlies how they count bears, with the effect being a 34% to 43% jump in the population estimate.
Thousands of times a year, motorists inadvertently smash into Wyoming wildlife like mule deer, elk and pronghorn antelope, littering highway right-of-ways with carcasses that sometimes include dozens or hundreds of pounds of fresh, lean, edible meat.
Water managers and hydrologists are eyeing a below-average Snake River Basin snowpack and say that a dry, warm spring in the forecast presents little hope for a surplus of snow in the weeks ahead.
Why Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s short-lived Gaper Day fire started is unknown, but an errant firework may have been the reason.
If you don’t mind a little slush, it might be time to break out the bike.
A Jackson family’s road trip south to the desert was interrupted this week by a sight that left photographer David Stubbs repulsed and angry.
The National Elk Refuge’s big rigs will spew out alfalfa pellets for the last time in 2021 on Monday, marking the end of a feeding season that has been abridged by about two weeks to meet management goals.
The cost of a day of fishing in Yellowstone National Park is more than doubling this year, partly to direct needed funds toward removing non-native lake trout and control the spread of aquatic invasive species.
“Pure gold” is how Natrona County Rep. Steve Harshman described state lands in Teton County while explaining a proposal that doomed a potential sale of 640 acres near Kelly to the National Park Service.
Legislation authorizing Wyoming to sell a square mile of its land along the east boundary of Grand Teton National Park to the federal government is progressing through the state Legislature.
A federal program intended to improve access to public lands has granted $300,000 to study transportation, access points and wildlife-vehicle collisions on Teton Pass.
An annual Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem sign of spring — the emergence of grizzly bears — has come and gone.
Efforts to allow a heli-skiing business to drop skiers high in the Centennial Mountains west of Yellowstone are not getting off the ground, as the Caribou-Targhee National Forest is no longer entertaining the idea.
Aggressive efforts to hunt the Teton Range’s nonnative mountain goat population out of existence are having the desired effect: As few as 29 animals remain.
After a one-year hiatus, visitors to Grand Teton National Park will be able to step inside of Jackson Lake and Jenny Lake lodges again come this summer.
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