Wild horses need to stop ruling the range
They are icons of America’s past, symbols of our pioneering spirit. Eyes flashing, nostrils flaring, tails obscured by a cloud…
Donald Giannatti via Unsplash, Wild horses Monument Valley, Utah
MoreWild horses deserve a home in the west
I live in a rural county heavily dependent on ranching and agriculture, and though I often hear people talk about…
Wild horse 5939 available for adoption/courtesy BLM
MoreWill salmon finally win this year?
For the last 35 years I’ve been covering what we call the “salmon wars” in the Pacific Northwest, writing so…
MoreWe need every tool to fight today’s fires
We know now that the largest recorded fire in New Mexico history was started by an escaped “prescribed burn,” or…
MoreBison — back where they belong
Early in the Covid-19 epidemic, I visited the Bison Range on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana. But the…
Bison by the Midway Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park
MoreThis grizzly family comes with paparazzi
My neighbor is famous. She has 50,000 followers on Facebook and a recent post on her page there had 4,200…
Mother grizzly 399 and her four cubs
MoreWildlife Fauxtography
I’m disgusted with American journalism. It’s boring. I blame editors for assigning uninteresting stories, and people interviewed for being evasive….
MoreLet’s Not Squander the Miracle of Yellowstone
Photo credit Doug Smith, National Park Service
MoreGuess who has outsized clout on public lands?
This may be a surprising story. It begins with a working group trying to save the last native bighorn sheep…
Image by Pete Nuij, courtesy of Unsplash
MoreSometimes, the simplest things can help wildlife
“Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roamWhere the deer and the antelope playWhere seldom is heard a discouraging…
Ranch manager Zach Thode, works beside professors and students to help wildlife
MorePlease don’t pet the wildlife
“I can’t believe that person is getting that close.” Just off the road stands a bull elk — a 700-pound…
MoreWelcome to Yosemite, the new Pyrocene Park
The Pleistocene epoch that began 2.6 million years ago sent ice in waves through Yosemite. Glaciers gouged out great valleys…
Photo by Laurel Balyeat, Yosemite Park
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