By Temple Stoellinger
The Rock Springs Grazing Association (RSGA) represents one of the oldest and most complex grazing operations in the American West, born from a conservation crisis more than 100 years ago.
By Katie Hill
It took all night to drive hundreds of miles from the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem (NCDE) in northwestern Montana to the shores of Yellowstone Lake,
By Maria Vittoria Mazzamuto and Sukhchuluun Gansukh
By Francesco Bisi
The first wolves to enter the Alps in nearly a hundred years found themselves in southeast France’s Mercantour National Park in 1992.
By Annabella Helman
In Kenya’s Rift Valley, a pride of lions begins to stir as the sun descends to the horizon and the air grows still.
By Shaleas Harrison
It’s 8 am as the sunlight moves across the foothills of Carter Mountain, the longest mountain in the Absaroka range and east from Yellowstone National Park.
By Tesia Lin
In the 1990s, Kenya’s hirola antelope population “plummeted from 15,000 to an estimated 300-500 animals,” says retired professor Dr. Richard Kock.
By Emily Downing
Every spring, Chris Williams looks forward to seeing the terns alight on the meadows of the southern Wyoming ranch that he manages.
By Ezra Stepanek
Bruna Ferreira tried to go into her conversations with the people living around Atlantic Forest State Park without expectations.
By Graham Marema
Just before sunrise, Nine Quarter Circle Ranch wakes up. The valley is still blue with fog, and wranglers don cowboy hats and vests, shimmying their feet into worn boots.
By Tesia Lin
In 2014, John Coffman arrived in Wyoming as The Nature Conservancy’s new steward for the Red Canyon Ranch and quickly encountered an unforgettable lesson.
By Samuel Western
I’m in upper eastern Montana, a land of undulating drainages, heading north on Highway 87.
By Birch Malotky
When I get Dallas May on the phone for the first time and ask how he’s doing, he immediately tells me, “We were getting ready to start selling cattle and a week later the rains started.
For many westerners, cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is the exemplar invasive weed, well known for thriving in sagebrush landscapes where it crowds out native plants, fuels a devastating fire regime, and threatens wildlife and livestock grazing.
Christy Bell rifled through a series of shallow drawers lining the walls of a dark, windowless lab.
Invasive species are not a new phenomenon, but over the past few decades the West has seen an explosion of all types in all ecosystems.
In any court case, there are two sides. But in a wood-paneled courtroom at the Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Butte, Montana, differences between the two sides headed to court were not immediately apparent.
I met Peter John Camino in the lobby of the Johnson County Public Library in Buffalo, Wyoming.
“If we disconnected that 14-inch pipe and pointed it upward, the water would blast nearly 600 feet into the air,” says Les Hook
From verdant, low-elevation spreads in Wyoming’s northeast corner to high, dry western basins, private lands across the state are diverse.
