Katie Hill

Feb 21, 2025 | themeateater.com | Eli Fournier |Aaron Agosto |Katie Hill

Last week, the Trump Administration fired 3,400 Forest Service employees across the country. The firings targeted employees in probationary periods regardless of their length of service with the agency. Positions terminated included new hires and mid- and upper-level employees who recently took new positions that were subject to probationary periods. The firings gutted the recreation, trails, forestry, range, and biology departments of forests nationwide.

Feb 4, 2025 | dailyyonder.com | Katie Hill

It’s been 48 years since Kip Padgelek and his dad launched their custom deer processing business together. After a career revolving around all things meat, including an education at the Culinary Institute of America, Padgelek, now almost 70, has no plans to retire. That’s good news for the many customers of his business, which is located in a suburb west of Pittsburgh (his shop’s specialty is a Philly cheesesteak brat).

Jan 24, 2025 | themeateater.com | Katie Hill |Eli Fournier |Ryan Callaghan

On January 17, Custer Gallatin National Forest supervisor Matthew Jedra authorized the East Crazy Inspiration Divide Land Exchange, a long-embattled swap of checkerboarded land parcels held by ranchers, landowners, members of the Yellowstone Club, and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS). In a show of transparency for the USFS, the decision documents shed some light on the nature of the interactions between Custer Gallatin National Forest leadership and the Yellowstone Club over the last decade.

Jan 13, 2025 | fieldandstream.com | Katie Hill

Colorado Denies Petition to Pause Wolf Reintroduction After Ranchers Charge Half-a-Million Dollars for Livestock LossesA trio of livestock producers in Grand County, Colorado delivered a hefty invoice to Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) for missing, underweight, and dead livestock recently, saying wolves were to blame for blows to their bottom line.

Jan 9, 2025 | themeateater.com | Katie Hill |Sam Lungren |Eli Fournier |Benjamin Burgholzer

On Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced that grizzly bears will remain protected as a “threatened” species by the Endangered Species Act throughout their range in the Lower 48. This decision comes in response to a series of petitions from Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho arguing that distinct population segments in the Greater Yellowstone (GYE) and Northern Continental Divide (NCDE) ecosystems have achieved recovery goals and, thus, warranted delisting.