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Mountain Journal is based in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, known as the most untamed area in the contiguous United States. This region serves as a key location for exploring the connections between humans and nature in the American West. Greater Yellowstone is recognized worldwide as a symbol and destination that highlights the importance of maintaining healthy landscapes in the 21st century. Since most of this area is federal public land, it is owned by all Americans. No other news organization in the country emphasizes the significance of Greater Yellowstone quite like we do.

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Yellowstone Officials Call for Near-Record Bison Removal

Oct 24, 2024 | mountainjournal.org | Isabel Hicks

Back to Storiesby Isabel Hicks After last year’s mild winter left fewopportunities for Yellowstone National Park to capture and cull animals fromits wild bison herd, officials are hoping to remove a near-record number ofbison to keep the population from growing. In a September 30 status report for thesuperintendent, Yellowstone officials called to reduce the bison population byup to 1,375 animals this coming winter.
Food-Conditioned Grizzly Killed in Yellowstone River

Aug 2, 2024 | mountainjournal.org

FWP says it euthanized Grizzly 769, removing its head and paws after multiple conflicts in Gardiner, Maiden Basin.
Yellowstone Tourism Leaving Massive Carbon Footprint

Apr 26, 2024 | mountainjournal.org | Julia Barton

Back to Storiesby Julia BartonA new study highlights Yellowstone National Park as an example of theimpact tourism is having on carbon dioxide emissions, citing that park visitationproduces more than a megaton of CO2 emissions annually. The average Americanemits roughly 900 kg of CO2 per year; the average Yellowstone visitor, however,emits 479 kg of CO2 during their park visit alone, the bulk of emissions comingfrom travel to and from the destination.
Banishing the Tukudika

Mar 10, 2024 | mountainjournal.org | John Clayton

Back to Storiesby John ClaytonIn the fall of 1879, Philetus W. Norris was hunting on theback side of Bunsen Peak, south of Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone NationalPark. Norris, 57, wore a gray beard and fringed buckskin. Alone on his horse,he gave off an air of self-confidence and prided himself on his frontiersmanship. He was the kind of self-mythologizer who wore gaudy buckskins even for formalportraits.
The Heartbeat of Wild Places

Feb 3, 2024 | mountainjournal.org | Benjamin Polley

Back to StoriesCORRECTION: An earlier version of this story stated that cougars have jaws that move both up and down and side to side. It also stated that mountain lions shear their prey's fur with their claws. Both statements have been corrected in the text below. EDITOR'S NOTE: Populations ofbig cats are declining globally because of habitat loss and poaching, but mountain lionnumbers are increasing.
Montana Files Intent to Sue Over Listing Wolverines Under ESA

Jan 30, 2024 | mountainjournal.org | Johnathan Hettinger |Diane Mikho

Back to Storiesby Johnathan HettingerThe question of whether the 300 or sowolverines in the Lower 48 should be protected under the Endangered Species Actwill be heading back to court. But this time, the federal government will bearguing for, instead of against, protections.
Montana Files Intent to Sue Over Listing Wolverines Under ESA

Jan 29, 2024 | mountainjournal.org

The 15-page letter of intent to sue US Fish and Wildlife Service comes on heels of November 2023 decision to list wolverines as ‘threatened.’
Where the Rudder Meets the Road

Dec 22, 2023 | mountainjournal.org | John Clayton

Back to Storiesby John ClaytonAugust 1, 1915 may be the most important single date in thehistory of Yellowstone. Almost a half-century after its founding, the firstautomobile legally entered America’s first national park. Motorized vehicles changed the way people interacted withYellowstone, no longer bunched together on stagecoaches that stopped at centralhotels for dinners of canned food. Now more visitors could camp in the wild andchoose for themselves which attractions were most worthy.
The 'Unprecedented' Decline of a Wyoming Pronghorn Herd

Dec 15, 2023 | mountainjournal.org | Kylie Mohr

Back to Storiesby Kylie MohrWhen Mark Gocke drives down U.S. Highway 191 insouthwestern Wyoming, the landscape is usually teeming with pronghorn antelope;speedy blurs of tawny brown and white dotted among the sagebrush between thetowns of Jackson, Pinedale and Rock Springs. But this spring was different. Theroute was littered with carcasses. Today, the ungulates are almost impossibleto spot.
Will Wolverines be Listed Under Endangered Species Act?

Nov 21, 2023 | mountainjournal.org

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will make a determination about listing Lower 48 wolverines by Nov. 27