The Gallatin Range, which stretches from Bozeman’s backyard south into Yellowstone National Park, is the most significant piece of wildland of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem that lacks per...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/05/05/time-to-preserve-the-gallatin-range-in-montana/
The Washington Post published an article a few years ago that repeated the old and flawed idea that ranching will “protect” the land and suggesting conservation easements are the solution to ...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/05/02/the-problem-of-conservation-easements-2/
The seminal work on public lands livestock grazing and its web of impacts, Welfare Ranching - The Subsidized Destruction of the American West is now available for download.
This past week the Biden Administration reversed a permit approved by the Trump Administration that would have allowed the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority to construct a 211-...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/04/21/ambler-road-construction-denied-by-biden-administration/
An important question regarding sagebrush ecosystems, and species that rely upon them like sage grouse has to do with exactly what constitutes the fire rotation in sagebrush habitat? And a corrol...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/04/14/no-such-thing-as-frequent-fire-in-sagebrush-ecosystems/
I previously wrote a piece about wolves killed by Gardiner, Montana. As I noted in my original post I was not able to independently confirm the details and have since learned more about the situa...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/04/09/three-wolves-killed-by-gardiner-montana/
Giant Sequoia May Require High-severity Blazes for their surival. Photo George Wuerthner During the summer of 2020 and 2021, with one of the most severe droughts in California’s recent history,...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/04/08/human-intervention-not-necessary-for-sequoia-survival/
How many people know that in the state of Washington, more wolves are killed by Native people than any other group? You probably haven’t heard about this, even from wolf advocacy groups. How ma...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/02/06/indian-iron-curtain-or-the-emperor-has-no-clothes/
High-severity blazes are critical to healthy forest ecosystems. Photo George Wuerthner I read yet another study circulated by UC Davis and doggedly promoted by the national media, encouragin...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2023/01/21/more-wildfire-misinformation-from-uc-davis/
Yellowstone was established in 1872 primarily to protect the unique geological thermal features of the park. Photo George Wuerthner I see almost weekly repetitions of the myths or revisionist h...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2022/03/01/response-to-misguided-guardian-yellowstone-commentary/