With NPS staff employment down since January, land managers are finding it more difficult to educate parkgoers about the ...

Dozen rivers subject to 'hoot owl' restrictions on afternoon fishing or all-out closures as biologists grapple with warming ...

Each color relates to a range of numbers associated with air quality on a scale designated by the Environmental Protection Agency. Green is “good.” Purple is “very unhealthy.” A deep maroon color was ...

New bills establish dedicated funding for infrastructure to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions and reconnect fragmented habitats.

Rangelands are the most widespread and most imperiled ecosystems on the planet, according to McNew. North America has ...

President announces all-of-government effort to protect ecosystems, boost recreation access on public lands while stripping ...

Wildland firefighter mental health is in crisis. Learn how trauma, stress, and low support systems are impacting those on the frontlines of wildfire.

Conservation groups in federal district court last week alleged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act by inadequately considering challenges faced by gray wolves.

Public-interest journalism at the intersection of nature and humanity in America’s wildest, most iconic ecosystem Mountain Journal goes beyond the news to provide in-depth reporting and analysis of ...

The forests that bounced back quickly after the Yellowstone’s fires of 1988 were full of lodgepole pines that possessed a trait called serotiny. The cones of serotinous pines spring open and release ...

Rose Shimberg is a Missoula-based freelance writer and journalism graduate student focusing on outdoors and environmental coverage. She worked as a contributing writer and copyeditor at Salt Lake City ...