Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
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The state of Montana filed to dismiss its own lawsuit against Yellowstone National Park over bison management. The suit stemmed from Yellowstone’s new bison management plan, released in summer 2024. Under the framework — the first update to bison management in Yellowstone in nearly two-and-a-half decades — bison numbers would average about 5,000 in the park, allowing for the species’ ecological role on the landscape and enhancing tribal transfer and harvest opportunities outside park boundaries. The state filed suit on New Year’s Eve 2024, rene...
Earlier this summer, I was jogging on a local trail with my 7-year-old black lab mutt, Camas, when she suddenly froze. The fur along her spine bristled. Then she let out a single, sharp bark - a timbre I'd never before heard. I caught the unmistakable musk of an animal and my hand shot to the bear spray on my chest. Halfway up a tree less than 20 yards away, a beautiful, small cinnamon black bear stared back at us. The bear scampered off as Camas growled, standing her ground in front of me on...
For about 20 years, wildlife managers, politicians, and wildlife advocates in the Northern Rockies have gone back and forth about what to do about grizzly bears. The heart of that debate centers around who should manage the species: the states or the federal government. So when I got word there would be a press conference this week north of Yellowstone, in the heart of grizzly country, featuring the governors of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho alongside Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, I knew...
