A climate organizer and Montana native reflects on the art of collaboration to mitigate impacts of a warming planet ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: In the final installment in our series on geothermal energy, its availability in the West and the implications ...

That puts an onus on us as guardians of such a rare landscape to both maintain its qualities and share its lessons. This series of stories wrestles with how we define the word “wild,” in a place ...

An apparent mistake that led at least 3,000 Gallatin County taxpayers to collectively overpay more than $8.5 million in ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: One remarkable component of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is its complete suite of wild North American ...

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Jane Goodall, arguably the world’s most recognizable conservationist spent 65 years studying wildlife, primarily chimpanzees in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania. Goodall died last week at 91.

An education ranger at Yellowstone National Park explains the mechanics of geysers, while a “grand” example erupts in the background. Since Oct. 1, most national park employees have been furloughed.

Visitors to Yellowstone National Park viewed the Mammoth Hot Springs thermal feature in Yellowstone National Park on Oct. 1, 2025. Credit: Amanda Eggert / MTFP As federal employees face furloughs amid ...

Visitors line up at the West Yellowstone Entrance to the park on Tuesday morning ahead of a potential government shutdown. Credit: NPS In January 2019, MacNeil Lyons was four years into Yellowstone ...