Sep 25, 2008 - Bush's Yellowstone legacy (Idaho Falls Post-Register) - Marty Trillhaase - When the Bush administration dissolves into dust in 117 days, it will leave Yellowstone National Park's winter travel policy politicized and unsettled. The White House spent eight years and million...

Sep 22, 2008 - Gazette Opinion: Don't let litigation freeze park tourism (Billings Gazette) - Last week's ruling by a U.S. District Court judge in Washington, D.C., cast a cloud of uncertainty over Yellowstone National Park's winter season, which is scheduled to begin Dec. 15. The ruling sh...

Sep 20, 2008 - Preserving national parks (Los Angeles Times) - Yellowstone National Park is one of nature's glorious wonders, a place where elk, wolves, bison and grizzly bears roam. Established in 1872, the country's first national park is also home to the Old...

Sep 18, 2008 - Yellowstone sleds: Phase out snowmobiles in the park (Salt Lake Tribune) - Salt Lake Tribune Editorial board - Sarah Palin says that, in Alaska, they are called snow machines, not snowmobiles. But regardless of their name, allowing more of them into Yellowstone National Park in winter would pollute the air exc...

Sep 14, 2008 - Guest Opinion: Gunbarrel fire will make forest healthier (Billings Gazette) - Brian Sybert - CODY, Wyo. - After more than a month of blackened skies and reddened eyes, a remarkable story has emerged from the Shoshone National Forest's Gunbarrel fire since late-summer snows doused the last emb...

Sep 14, 2008 - Gazette Opinion: Yellowstone thrives, fascinates 20 years after fires (Billings Gazette) - The biggest fires in Yellowstone Park history reached their flaming crescendo in the first 10 days of September 1988. It's hard to recall in relatively cool, damp September 2008 how hot and dry those ...

Sep 09, 2008 - States need regional plan on wolf management (Headwaters News) - Bob Brown and Daniel Kemmis - If things had gone according to plan, Montana’s wolf hunting season would have opened in the backcountry on Sept, 15, and in other areas of the state on Oct. 1. Idaho and Wyoming had planned similar s...

Aug 30, 2008 - Montana raises bar with river drilling setbacks (Bozeman Daily Chronicle) - Scott Bosse - Rising trout. Chittering kingfishers. Lush, green cottonwoods. Cool, clear water. Those are the images that come to mind when I think of the Yellowstone River. But as the saying goes, bea...

Aug 21, 2008 - There Ought to Be a Roadless Law (New York Times) - Among President Bill Clinton’s signature environmental achievements was a regulation that prohibited new roads — and by extension, new commercial activity — in nearly 60 million largely undeveloped ac...

Aug 21, 2008 - Lease delays, setbacks allow for discussion (Bozeman Daily Chronicle) - Setbacks and delays often are bad things. But in the case of oil and gas lease sales in Bridger Canyon and along the Yellowstone River, the state's move to take it slow and create a waterfront buffer ...

Aug 13, 2008 - Don't change the ESA through the back door (Casper Star Tribune) - Star-Tribune Editorial Board - The Endangered Species Act is far from perfect. After 35 years, it should be reviewed to see if it's accomplishing federal lawmakers' original goals to protect vulnerable fish, wildlife and plants. Th...

Aug 10, 2008 - Time to bear down on Elk Refuge feeding phase out (Casper Star Tribune) - In the 1970s, calls to end dumpster and roadside feeding of bears elicited howls of dissent from those who argued it would be a disaster for grizzlies. Today, nobody would argue for the for a return to feeding -- a lesson we should carry over to the National Elk Refuge.

Aug 04, 2008 - A new path for wolf management (Montana Standard) - Michael Scott - Judge Donald Molloy's injunction putting the gray wolf back under the umbrella of Endangered Species Act protection underscores the need for the states and their citizens to fix the flaws in management plans. Having wolf issues tied up in court for years isn't in anybody's best interests -- including the wolf.

Jul 29, 2008 - Effective brucellosis vaccine a worthy goal (Helena Independent-Record) - Editorial Board - With talks between Montana, Wyoming and Idaho and the U.S. Department of Agriculture on how to deal with the spread of brucellosis apparently stalled and news that it almost certainly was elk, not bis...

Jul 21, 2008 - CST Editorial: Wyo. plan, genetics cause wolf relisting (Casper Star Tribune) - After waiting for years to gain control over wolf management in the state, Wyoming finally got that authority when wolves were removed from the federal endangered species list in late March. Now th...

Jul 16, 2008 - States must preserve critical habitat for wildlife (Billings Gazette) - Michael Scott - Before the U.S. Cattlemen's Association from California announced that it knows how to manage Western wildlife better than those of us who live, work and play here, perhaps the group should've checked...