Kylie Mohr

Missoula

Environmental Journalist at Freelance

Contributing National Parks Editor, Big Sky Country at SFGate

Writer covering wildfire, wildlife, wild places. Correspondent @highcountrynews, natl parks editor @SFGATE Words @NatGeo @TheAtlantic @guardian +++

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‘Bleak vision’: New details emerge on National Park Service cuts

4 days ago | sacbee.com | Kylie Mohr

The Donald Trump administration offered new details about how it wants to cut $1.2 billion from the National Park Service in a proposed budget for fiscal year 2026 that the White House released Friday night. The suggested cuts in an over 1,000-page document are yet another blow to the beleaguered National Park Service and its staff, who are tasked with protecting iconic landscapes for current and future generations amid dramatic staffing reductions and record-breaking visitation.
'Bleak vision': New details emerge on National Park Service cuts

5 days ago | sfgate.com | Kylie Mohr

The Donald Trump administration offered new details about how it wants to cut $1.2 billion from the National Park Service in a proposed budget for fiscal year 2026 that the White House released Friday night. The suggested cuts in an over 1,000-page document are yet another blow to the beleaguered National Park Service and its staff, who are tasked with protecting iconic landscapes for current and future generations amid dramatic staffing reductions and record-breaking visitation.
Appeals court takes up Glacier house legal limbo

5 days ago | sfgate.com | Kylie Mohr

A three-story, 2,178-square-foot home being built by a San Diego couple inside Glacier National Park remains mired in legal proceedings, more than two years after a local conservation district and upset local residents challenged its construction. John and Stacy Ambler’s property is situated on the banks of McDonald Creek, near Apgar Village.
How to preserve a glacier’s legacy

1 week ago | hcn.org | Kylie Mohr

When Rose McAdoo visits a glacier, she doesn’t just bring a harness, rope and crampons. She brings a portable camp stove, sugar, powdered whole milk and heavy cream, and a gelatin substitute called agar. The glacier will also become an ingredient. McAdoo is a dessert artist, and one of her favorite desserts to make on, and with, a glacier is panna cotta.
Man hits Yellowstone worker with car, faces up to 20 years in prison

1 week ago | sfgate.com | Kylie Mohr

David Regnier, a 67-year-old man from Bend, Oregon, was stuck in traffic on Sept. 18, 2024. Road construction in the park near Canyon Junction was causing a backup of cars that stretched up to 45 minutes long, according to reporting by the Jackson Hole News & Guide. Three Yellowstone employees were there to direct traffic, wearing high-visibility clothing and carrying large stop signs.
Yellowstone bear flipping 800-pound dumpsters meets grim end

2 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Kylie Mohr

May 21-A grizzly bear's claws usually come in handy for digging up roots, squirrels and insects for a tasty meal. But after getting a taste of human trash earlier this spring, one Yellowstone bear decided to use its brute strength for another purpose: digging up trash cans mounted in cement, then uprooting and turning them over for the food inside.
Yellowstone bear flipping 800-pound dumpsters meets grim end

2 weeks ago | sfgate.com | Kylie Mohr

A grizzly bear’s claws usually come in handy for digging up roots, squirrels and insects for a tasty meal. But after getting a taste of human trash earlier this spring, one Yellowstone bear decided to use its brute strength for another purpose: digging up trash cans mounted in cement, then uprooting and turning them over for the food inside.
A record-breaking runner’s national park shortcut may land him in jail

2 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Kylie Mohr

May 20-A breakfast of Snickers, a Red Bull and three ibuprofen fueled Michelino Sunseri to achieve a new record in September 2024: He raced 13.2 miles up and down Grand Teton National Park's tallest mountain, enduring an elevation gain, and subsequent loss, of 7,064 feet, in just 2 hours, 50 minutes and 50 seconds.
High-elevation drama in Grand Teton National Park goes to court

2 weeks ago | sfgate.com | Kylie Mohr

Sunseri, a North Face-sponsored athlete and bartender from Driggs, Idaho, had been training for this grueling feat for years, running the same path 43 times to prepare his mind and body. He began the speed record attempt at 7:45 a.m., jogging through meadows, forests and a boulder field. He climbed into rocky areas with ice and snow from a storm the week before, and powered up narrow, winding paths.
A record-breaking runner's national park shortcut may land him in jail

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Kylie Mohr

In Tragic Week for Grizzlies, Food-Conditioned Adult Euthanized in Yellowstone, Grand Teton Cubs Killed by Older Bearby Katie O’Reilly Just as the summer tourist season ramps up, Yellowstone National Park is down one exceptionally food-motivated grizzly bear. On May …