The 1988 Fires burned approximately half of Yellowstone National Park and provided a significant natural laboratory to review the effects of wildfire on aquatic ecosystems. Photo George Wuerthner Most people […]
Keep the Cattle Out-Final Decision on Bridgeport Ranger District
Twin Lakes on the Bridgeport Ranger District. Photo George Wuerthner A recent final decision to keep cattle grazing out of vacant allotments on the Bridgeport District Humboldt Toiyabe National Forest […]
Bridger Teton NF Capitulation to Ranchers on Upper Green River Allotment
The Elk Ridge Complex grazing allotments were closed to livestock grazing in 2015. Now the BTNF wants to open them to cattle grazing. Photo George Wuerthner The Bridger Teton […]
Yellowstone Park fishing regs double down on non-native fish
Limit on rainbow and brook trout abolished (with exceptions)- With the exception of some popular roadside rivers such as the Madison, Firehole, and lower Gibbon River, limits on the number […]
Alvord Cutthroat Trout, Not Extinct After All?
Alvord cutthroat trout were a subspecies of cutthroat trout native to the Alvord Basin of southeast Oregon that many believe went extinct in their pure form shortly after they were […]
Fishing problems in the upper Clark’s Fork of the Yellowstone
High angling pressure and spread of rainbow trout the problem- It’s not like fish have disappeared from the Beartooth Plateau or the streams of the nearby Absaroka Mountains, but the […]
Some great Yellowstone Park news in battle to kill off lake trout!
2012 was banner year for number of lake trout removed from Yellowstone Lake- Yellowstone cutthroat trout numbers are finally seen to be increasing in what once was the world’s greatest […]
Scenic, much-loved Idaho canyon spared from another dam
Idaho Water Board probably ends 10 year battle over Oneida Narrows dam- Oneida Narrows is a scenic canyon on the Bear River in SE Idaho. It is already partially filled […]