Prior to our current millennium, whitebark pine seeds comprised a substantial part of diets eaten by grizzly bears in areas where...

Dangerous Animals I have been asked more than once about hazards of the wilds. We humans seem fascinated, even titillated, by scary...

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) with Crow Tribal Chairman A.J. Not Afraid Summer is exploding in Yellowstone with new life. Orange baby...

Yellowstone National Park is the only place on Earth where bison and grizzly bears coexist in significant numbers. Most people, inured to...

I was 14 when I first saw the impossible white spine of the Northern Rockies. Nothing in my life up to that point had prepared me for...

Photo by Mary Strachen Scriver Last week I attended a memorial for Chuck Jonkel at the Roxy Theater in Missoula, Montana. Charles Joseph...

Photo by Roger Hayden Bears are up and about again, a living announcement of spring. With their miraculous ability to hibernate, bears...

A few weeks ago, I offered my perspective on threats to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) under the Trump administration and our current...

One of the few bright spots in today’s otherwise bleak landscape of grizzly bear conservation is a proposal to augment a remnant of...

Photos By David Mattson Last Tuesday, in the shadow of Yellowstone’s Electric Peak, I watched National Park Service employees herd, prod,...