May 09, 2008 - Wyoming conservation bills are off to a good start (Casper Star Tribune) - Editorial Board - Wednesday was a good day for Wyoming in the U.S. Senate. Two conservation bills sponsored by freshman Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming were approved by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committe...

Apr 29, 2008 - Idaho should fairly and consistently apply the rule of law to wolf killings (Idaho Statesman) - Craig Kenworthy - Greater Yellowstone's three states stand on the cusp of a historic opportunity. With the gray wolf's removal from the Endangered Species list last month, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service basically sai...

Apr 29, 2008 - West shouldn’t get lost in rush for energy (Bozeman Daily Chronicle) - Didn’t it seem a little out of character when Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal said last week that the Forest Service is getting too cozy with an energy company as the agency developed plans for oil and ...

Apr 28, 2008 - Let's not blow Wyoming's chance to manage wolves (Casper Star Tribune) - Nic Patrick - Thirteen years after the reintroduction of the gray wolf into the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Wyoming stands on the cusp of a rare opportunity. With the wolf's removal from the Endangered Species L...

Apr 27, 2008 - CUT land a good first step in bison management (Bozeman Daily Chronicle) - It’s not the big breakthrough many had hoped for; it’s expensive — real expensive on a per-head basis, at least at the outset — and it comes years after it was supposed to happen. And yet it p...

Apr 26, 2008 - Give bison room to roam to Cutler Meadows (Bozeman Daily Chronicle) - Amy McNamara - On April 17, Gov. Schweitzer and Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Suzanne Lewis announced a historic agreement to open additional habitat for bison north of the park. This deal is the big...

Apr 23, 2008 - Gazette Opinion: Finally, some progress on bison plan (Billings Gazette) - At summer's end, Yellowstone Park was home to an estimated 4,700 bison. The population this week was estimated to be just 2,300, including 238 being held at the Stephens Creek corrals near the park's ...

Apr 23, 2008 - Our View: Idaho counties deserve chance to do right thing (Idaho Statesman) - Editorial Board - It took only a few weeks for Idaho to have its first wolf controversy, post-delisting. Environmentalists are fuming about an Eastern Idaho prosecuting attorney's decision not to press charges again...

Apr 19, 2008 - Corps must deliver on promise to protect the Yellowstone (Bozeman Daily Chronicle) - Scott Bosse - What is it with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Yellowstone River? You would think that a federal agency that has been around for over two centuries, has an annual budget in the billion...

Apr 02, 2008 - Still time to comment on forest plan (Missoulian) - Yesterday we wrote about the proposed management plan for the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, and mentioned that Rep. Denny Rehberg recently sent a letter to the U.S. Forest Service requesting t...

Mar 31, 2008 - Gazette Opinion: Welcome trends in Yellowstone winter visitation (Billings Gazette) - Editorial board - n late March and early April, Yellowstone National Park is as quiet as it gets. Most of the 2.2 million acre park is buried in snow and closed to visitors. Roads haven't yet been plowed, save for the ...

Mar 28, 2008 - Why the buffalo can't roam (Chicago Tribune) - Each year millions of visitors throng Yellowstone National Park, and no visit is complete without a glimpse of the park's bison—magnificent creatures that once were hunted nearly to extinction. Toda...

Mar 18, 2008 - Gazette Opinion: Reduce slaughter; get bison plan moving (Billings Gazette) - It's a killing winter in Yellowstone Park. As of this week, 1,100 bison from the park had either been killed or were corralled near Gardiner pending shipment to slaughter. The previous high bison kill...

Mar 07, 2008 - Protecting All Waters (New York Times) - Half of the waters in the United States are at risk of pollution or destructive development because of a wrongheaded Supreme Court decision in 2006. The decision narrowed the scope of the Clean Water...

Mar 01, 2008 - Gun Regulations for National Parks are Appropriate (Bozeman Daily Chronicle) - Amy McNamara - Dear Editor, Yellowstone National Park is a family destination. People come from around the world to enjoy its beauty, experience its geothermal features and see its wildlife. There is growing co...

Mar 01, 2008 - Don’t weaken national park gun rules (Casper Star Tribune) - Pete Hart - National parks are special places that enjoy the highest level of protection provided to public lands by Congress. Originally, the U.S. Army, and since its creation in 1916, the National Park Service ...

Feb 29, 2008 - Time to move forward, give states a chance to manage wolves (Jackson Hole News & Guide) - Michael Scott - Greater Yellowstone Coalition surprised some people recently when we decided not to oppose removal of the Rocky Mountain gray wolf from the Endangered Species List. After careful consideration, we bel...

Feb 29, 2008 - Gazette Opinion: No good reason for loaded guns in U.S. parks (Billings Gazette) - A barrage of election-year politics has been fired into America's 390 national parks. Last week, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced that his department would draw up new rules allowing vi...