Historically a federal day of service with free entry to national parks, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is no longer a free-access day. Oh, and neither is Juneteenth.

UM climate professor makes space for both in his college classroom, finds humor can be an effective teaching tool ...

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Yellowstone National Park officials are asking for public input to weigh plans to rebuild the park’s North Entrance Road, a ...

Study shows that partisan misperceptions about opponents may lead to conflict, even when consensus is possible ...

Roughly 4,000 landowners control two-thirds of the private land in the state. A recent study highlights what that means for ...

Two yearlings look up from playing on a fall 2024 day in Greater Yellowstone. The moose abuse case in southwest Wyoming is conjuring up a negative image of the state as it grapples with another animal ...

In 2025, Mountain Journal published articles on topics ranging from wildlife migration to chronic wasting disease. We dug into federal layoffs, grizzly bears, wolverines and wolves, and reported on ...

A black wolf moves through the sage brush in Yellowstone National Park in the fall of 2025. Credit: Ben Bluhm CORRECTION: This article has been corrected to reflect that study co-author Michael Lewis ...

A Canada lynx peers through the branches in Northern Canada. Lynx thrive in Alaska and Canada but face daunting challenges in the Lower 48 where global warming, development, logging and road building ...

Snow piles up along the Gallatin River. Come spring, melting runoff will swell surface waters and seep into groundwater, recharging the aquifer. However, dwindling snowpacks due to climate change make ...

The Trump administration for the past year has been making plans for a consolidated federal wildland firefighting service. The deadlines to date have come and gone. Now, some stakeholders are claiming ...