Category: Opinion

In a poor natural food year like this one in the West, grizzlies and black bears are wandering into our ever-expanding human footprint filled with enticing things to eat. Who is the cause of “problem bears?” What does it mean for griz recovery and black-bear “co-existence” with people?
Retired Yellowstone winterkeeper Steve Fuller picks up where he last left off in his column. It was one month into their second year at Canyon: Guy Fawkes Night, Nov 5, 1974. And then "Miss Piggy" with claws arrived
In this op-ed, Matt Barnes, a scientist on the front lines of human-lobo co-existence, shares his insights. Barnes is featured in the new film "In The Company of Wolves" now coming to Greater Yellowstone
Brad Orsted says that forests uninvaded by tire tracks, logging trucks and throttling wheels opened up new avenues of thinking. And it's foolhardy, he writes, to squander them now
What is the compelling science that allegedly supports the Trump Administration's decision to revoke the Forest Service Roadless Rule? Here, in this response, 45 real scientists in Montana say the evidence doesn't exist
With big game hunting seasons about to commence in the Northern Rockies, and certain to bring more bear deaths, longtime national grizzly expert Chris Servheen offers tips for how humans can avoid conflicts and injury
Over the years hard work was put in to retire livestock grazing allotments on Forest Service lands in Wyoming around the Upper Green River Basin. The purpose: to reduce conflicts with grizzlies. In this op-ed, Kelsey Yarzab Yates writes about how one agreement is being undermined
Yellowstonian launches a new never-ending series that celebrates wilderness as a homeland for the wildest of creatures, a fountainhead for clean water and a place to find solace away from the noisy, fast-paced human-dominated world
Rather than climbing, the state's wolf population is falling. In this analysis by wildlife researcher Matt Barnes, he says work by other scientists shows how an overcount of the animals has been used to justify more lethal management
Study highlights the problems with off-leash dogs joining people in bear country. It's fertile terrain for latest edition of Yellowstonian's popular column, "Conversations from the Green Thicket"