Mike Koshmrl
Environmental Reporter at WyoFile
Reporter @WyoFile, covering wildlife, wildlands and fancy-tickling Wyoming things. Tips and talking-tos: [email protected]. Opinions my own.
Articles
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16 hours ago |
wyofile.com | Mike Koshmrl
The future of a Wyoming-focused science team that helped understand and popularize the phenomenon of wildlife migration is uncertain after a series of moves by the Trump administration’s U.S. Geological Survey to hollow out or even end its 43 cooperative research units. Multiple sources reached by WyoFile this week said that plans are being developed to vastly reduce or even eliminate the entire national program, started in Iowa 90 years ago by conservationist J.N. “Ding” Darling.
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20 hours ago |
trib.com | Mike Koshmrl
CODY—Hundreds of moth-eating grizzly bears will gather in backcountry talus fields in the months to come. It’s a high-altitude gathering similar to coastal bruins’ seasonal salmon feasts that serve as well-publicized spectacles. But land and wildlife managers face hard choices when it comes to spreading word of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s remarkable natural phenomenon, which occurs chiefly in the Absaroka Range.
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1 day ago |
wyofile.com | Mike Koshmrl
A once-prized trout fishery in the Pinedale area that raised concerns in late 2024 when it turned the color of a taconite tailings pond is again struggling with water quality. The ice just came off many lakes along the Wind River Range’s western front, including Little Soda Lake, which shed its deep red color over the winter. Yet almost immediately — within just a few weeks at most — environmental regulators detected potential issues with the still-frigid water.
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2 days ago |
wyofile.com | Mike Koshmrl
CODY—Hundreds of moth-eating grizzly bears will gather in backcountry talus fields in the months to come. It’s a high-altitude gathering similar to coastal bruins’ seasonal salmon feasts that serve as well-publicized spectacles. But land and wildlife managers face hard choices when it comes to spreading word of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s remarkable natural phenomenon, which occurs chiefly in the Absaroka Range.
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2 days ago |
wyomingnews.com | Mike Koshmrl
FORT WASHAKIE — Art Lawson sometimes feels like he’s doing the work of five people in his job overseeing wildlife on the Wind River Indian Reservation, a Yellowstone-sized landscape that’s home to the full suite of native species, from grizzly bears to wolverines.
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