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Can Human Towns Co-Exist With Hungry Bears? Or Are Bruins Destined To Always Lose?

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?

How Do We Abandon The Old Wolf Myths?

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

In Roadless Lands, There Are No Dead Ends

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

Gutting Roadless Protections: What Real Wildlife Scientists Say

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

Rules Of Safer Engagement For Hunters Sharing Backcountry With Grizzlies

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

Ranching Taxpayers And Creating More Grizzly-Livestock Conflict?

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

Analysis: In Montana, Lobo Numbers Just Don’t “Add Up”

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

The Grizzly Outcomes Of Letting Our Dogs Run Wild

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"

“Grizzlies In Greater Yellowstone Now Face A Dark Future”

The biologist who served as principal architect for recovering grizzlies in the Northern Rockies says those who are shredding the blueprint are destroying an American wildlife success story—and “should be ashamed of themselves”

Big Sky’s Elephants In The Room

Welcome to Big Sky: In his latest cartoon, John Potter sheds light on the real cause of rising wildlife roadkills along US 191, pollution threats to the Gallatin River and the loom of catastrophic wildfire. Developers, he says, would rather pretend these elephants in the room don't exist
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