Watch: Stunning, Never-Before-Seen Footage of Elk Migration
Produced by UC Berkely Professor and directed by filmmaker Jenny Nichols and Joe Riis and produced by Berkeley’s Arthur Middleton, an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Elk River follows the remarkable journey of Yellowstone’s elk as they migrate across stunning mountain terrain. The majority of the film’s footage […]
Montana Grizzly Delisting Inches Closer as Resolution Clears Final Vote
A Montana house resolution passed a final vote of the House this week in the state’s continued push to see the management of grizzly bears moved back to Montana’s wildlife agency. Sponsored by Rep. Steve Gunderson, R-Libby, House Joint Resolution 15 cleared its first vote of the full House on Tuesday and final vote […]
Report Indicates Northern Yellowstone Elk Population Stable
Results from the recently released elk survey conducted by the Northern Yellowstone Wildlife Working Group displayed promising results for elk in Yellowstone National Park’s northern range. Marking an increase of nine percent from last year’s numbers, state, and federal wildlife biologists counted 5,349 elk in the region. The promising results indicate a stable population […]
USFWS Reopens Comment Period on Delisting Yellowstone Grizzlies
Published in March of this year, officials proposed the delisting of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and have since reinstated an extended comment period about the proposal. Now occupying more than 22,500 square miles of the Yellowstone Ecosystem, the grizzly bear population has rebounded in great numbers. In 1975, estimates pegged the […]
CWD Claims First Mulie in Star Valley
It had been about eight years. In 2008 wildlife managers uncovered a moose infected with the degenerative disease in an area close to Bedford, Wyoming but had not had a positive case in the Star Valley region since. That is, until a dead doe mule deer was found in close proximity to Star Valley Ranch, […]
“Invisible Boundaries” Elk Exhibit Opens in Wyoming
In a recent issue of National Geographic, the magazine features a story surrounding the impressive 90 mile journey Yellowstone elk take in and out of the highlands each and every year. Heading up the mountains and into the highlands around Yellowstone National Park is where the elk spend their time in the spring and […]
VIDEO: Yellowstone Elk Charges Would-Be Photographer
Well it happened again. Another Yellowstone visitor got a little to close for comfort to an elk and it was recorded on video. Jody Tibbitts, the man who first captured our attention with footage of a massive bull elk, managed to capture this exchange on video as he persistently warned the woman to keep […]
Update: Bison Calf Euthanized After Tourists Put It In Vehicle
Over the weekend, we reported that a bison calf was snatched up by a pair of ill-informed tourists in Yellowstone National Park. The father and son duo grabbed the calf and placed it in the trunk of their car, expressing concern for its safety early last week. After driving the calf to a ranger station […]
Yellowstone Tourists Capture Bison Calf in Their Car, Worried That It Was Too Cold
The ignorant tourists of Yellowstone have struck again, this time abandoning the traditional bison selfie, this time opting for straight bison capture. Karen Richardson was leading a group of fifth-graders on an educational field trip through Yellowstone National Park earlier in the week when she witnessed the puzzling act. As the group of students […]
Montana Officials Propose to Triple Wolf Harvest Near Yellowstone Border
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks tabled a proposal that would potentially increase the annual harvest of gray wolves from two wolves to six in one district closely bordering Yellowstone National Park. The proposal comes as state officials, hunters and hunters cite a declining elk population since the wolves were reintroduced the Yellowstone ecosystem back […]