As federal funding for wildlife research shrinks, a retired schoolteacher and citizen scientist helps pick up the slack: a tale of devotion from Yellowstone National Park
Conservationists hoped a small herd of bison in a Montana quarantine could help repopulate the West. So why is Ted Turner’s private ranch the only place they can find a good home?
Is it possible to revive the logging industry and protect wilderness at the same time? After years of fighting, a group of unlikely bedfellows decided to give it a try. Now the bill they crafted has to jump one last hurdle: Washington, D.C.
While October's California fires grabbed the headlines, those in the Rocky Mountain West were even worse. In his dispatch from Montana, the author ponders a burning land in the era of global warming.