The bear may have been more aggressive than usual due to a recent fight with another bear, investigators theorized.
The M7.3 Hebgen Lake earthquake in 1959 is one of the two largest recorded earthquakes in the entire Intermountain West of the United States. We might still be seeing aftershocks from that event in what today is the most seismically active area of the Yellowstone region.
Mostly finished last summer, a new bypass channel on the Yellowstone River is designed to provide fish — especially endangered pallid sturgeon — a route around Intake Dam to reach spawning habitat upstream.
In the last 60 days, temperatures in portions of northern and southwestern Wyoming have run up to 8 degrees above normal. And that isn’t just highs.
We sometimes think of Yellowstone as an untouched landscape, but humans have been present in the area for over 10,000 years. The history and traditions of indigenous people in Yellowstone are as rich as the landscape itself.
After a brief pandemic lull, visitors have returned to seek fresh air, smashing monthly attendance records at parks such as Yellowstone and Zion. In June alone, over 31 million people visited a National Park Service site.
BOISE, Idaho — Wildlife advocates on Thursday petitioned federal officials to restore federal protections for gray wolves throughout the U.S. West after Idaho and Montana passed laws intended to drastically cut their numbers.
Allegations are flying that outfitters are sitting on permits and abusing the system. And some permits are now changing hands business to business, which the county is allowing
One bear was found sitting in the driver’s seat of an RV eating a sandwich.
The study is one of the first and most expansive research projects on snapping and spiny soft-shelled turtles in the U.S. high plains.
"It's gonna touch everyone in one way or another," said Wes Gordon, Casper's regional AIS specialist.
Pack rats, small rodents with big eyes, are helping scientists decipher climate change deep inside a chilly Wyoming cave.
Scientists working in the grotto are wearing long underwear, gloves and heavy coveralls to stay warm. Above ground, their assistants are sweating heavily in T-shirts and chugging water to avoid dehydration.
Land advocates applaud the interest in Wyoming’s open spaces, but also recognize the need to step up education on sustainable ways to recreate outside like carrying out your garbage, not feeding wildlife, and, well, the proper ways to poop in the woods.
Early explorers during the separate Washburn, Hayden and Hague expeditions of the 1870s were astonished by the massive terraces and pools of hot-spring limestone, better known as travertine, at Mammoth Hot Springs — a chemical oddity that is quite different from other Yellowstone thermal areas.
No early symptoms, no cure, always fatal, remains in the environment for decades and is rapidly spreading among wild and fenced deer throughout the United States.
Yellowstone’s hot spring waters ultimately flow for thousands of miles before entering the ocean. But waters enter two different oceans — the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean.
Dark sky advocates are building a following by reigniting interest in stargazing in areas where light pollution is least prevalent. In Montana, that includes places like Medicine Rocks State Park near Ekalaka in southeastern Montana.
Expanding cattle range into abandoned sheep grazing allotments on the national forest, however, would give stock growers more options to keep cattle and grizzlies apart, supporters of the proposal say.
LARAMIE — The southern Laramie Valley has served as a travel corridor for as long as humans have been crossing the plains, from Native America…
POWELL — On paper, the agenda for the inaugural meeting of the Wyoming Wildlife Task Force seemed pretty tame. Intended to be an introduction …
JACKSON — Elected officials trying to guard against runaway growth in Teton Valley would like to see their Jackson Hole counterparts pay more …
Staff spotted the pups living in a northern Colorado den with two collared wolves known as John and Jane.
“This is bear country — we all understand that,” one resident said. “I know what they’re about. There’s lions and bears and wolves here. You’ve got to be aware of your surroundings.
Law enforcement officers and game wardens are searching for a bear suspected of killing a bicycle camper before dawn Tuesday morning.