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We’re having one of those I-can’t-believe-what-we’re-seeing moments, as we snowshoe on trails around Old Faithful on a cold but sunny winter afternoon. Did you know Yellowstone has more thermal features than anywhere in the world — some 10,000 geysers, bubbling mud pots, hot springs and more. That’s half of the world’s hydrothermal features!

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Six females and five males were released Sunday at various locations. They are equipped with radio tracking devices so biologists can watch where they travel.

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Employing a 2-year-old state law for the first time, the Governor’s Office is claiming ownership of roads that cross federal lands as a way to keep them open to off-highway recreation and oil and gas drilling.

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LANDER, Wyo., Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ — Today in Jackson, sportsmen and
women will convene at a meeting with the U.S. Forest Service to make their
views heard on why the service should do more to protect a majestic
mountain range in western Wyoming.

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Very interesting article that uses the Beaverhead-Deerlodge plan as an example.

After years of being tarred as obstructionist ideologues, some environmental groups now have a seat at the negotiating table. Enjoying their newfound popularity, these self-appointed decisionmakers become heavily invested in reaching an accord, regardless of the science, the law, or the long-term effect on the land.

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Such claims are not just inaccurate, they are blatantly deceptive intended only to placate the Committee while avoiding the truth. The Interagency Bison Management Plan has been an abject failure resulting in the unnecessary killing of nearly 2,100 bison since its inception. The bison are needlessly hazed and harassed, shot, and captured and slaughtered because approximately half of the herd have been exposed to Brucella abortus – the bacterium the causes brucellosis.

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The new plan, which proposes increasing campground fees on the Helena Forest, closing two rental cabins permanently and shuttering most others in March and April, and removing toilets from most trailheads is identical to another that was presented a year ago, except that the name of the nationwide process involved is different.

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The Canadian company planning a gold mine 60 miles east of Boise is dropping plans to use cyanide to leach gold and silver from rock and says it will reduce the mine’s surface size 95 percent by switching largely to underground mining.

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WASHINGTON – Senators indicated Thursday that they will pass a less-sweeping reform of 1872 hardrock mining law than the House did late last year, imposing royalties on new mines but perhaps not on existing ones.

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The Bridger-Teton National Forest will hold an open house Monday to get public input on a plan to drill 136 natural gas wells on 17 well pads over 10,000 to 12,000 acres on the Hoback Rim adjacent to the Wyoming Range.