3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (978+ words) Our beat is America's Wildest Ecosystem As of early April, when snowpack-monitoring stations in Montana are typically peaking, one-third of the longer-standing sites are posting record-low totals. The upshot of the bleak state of Montana's snowpack is that Montana's rivers…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago  (530+ words) Our beat is America's Wildest Ecosystem Greater Yellowstone's grizzly bear population has grown by at least two this spring. "She's clearly in great shape, for a young mother coming out of the den," said Quentin Kujala, Montana Fish, Wildlife and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (473+ words) Our beat is America's Wildest Ecosystem Yellowstone National Park visitors over the past few years have been asking park guide Leo Leckie why some Douglas-fir trees between Mammoth Hot Springs and Tower junction are turning red. Their change in color…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (13+ words) Feds say they're ready for wildfire season, yet consolidation in limbo'Mountain Journal...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (1558+ words) Our beat is America's Wildest Ecosystem Hiking near Gardiner, Montana, on a recent balmy February day, I hit slushy snow and came across the tracks of one other human, and then some deer and elk. Soon, I encountered something more…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (717+ words) Our beat is America's Wildest Ecosystem You know that creaking noise a jack-in-the-box makes when it's cranked a little too tight? That's the sound fire weather forecasters are making as summer approaches North America." And while early-season wildfires have already…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (1655+ words) Our beat is America's Wildest Ecosystem Jerod Merkle remembers helping to capture a collared mule deer in Wyoming's Red Desert a few years ago when the ground was bare of snow. A wildlife ecologist and associate professor at the University…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (97+ words) Emily Senkosky is a writer with a master's degree in environmental science journalism from the University of Montana. After making a life for herself in South America, she returned to the U. S. to report on the changing dynamics of her home…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (417+ words) Our beat is America's Wildest Ecosystem When winter finally showed up in the Treasure State, it was a critical day for the Fort Peck Reservation Tribes of Eastern Montana. More than a dozen people surrounded a large corral, bated breath…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (369+ words) Our beat is America's Wildest Ecosystem Listen to "Grounding" on Montana Public Radio for more on climate change and mental health, and find the "Faces of Climate" profiles of the experts from "Grounding" on Mountain Journal, along with other "faces…...