Yellowstone National Park on Wednesday lifted fishing restrictions on most of the park’s rivers and streams that have been in place since late July. On July 29, park officials implemented hoot-owl restrictions on all rivers and streams, prohibiting fishing from 2 p.m. to sunrise, due to high water temperatures and low stream flows. Now, officials […]
Yellowstone National Park is on pace for its third busiest season on record, falling just off record pace during July. Park officials released the latest monthly and year-to-date statistics showing that 958,706 visited Yellowstone in July, down 2% from last year. It was also 11% fewer visitors than in 2021, the park’s record-breaking year and […]
Opinion: The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has taken the Park Service to court to require it to use the best available science and stop the pointless slaughter of our national mammal.
Continued rising air and water temperatures across southwest and western Montana has prompted Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks to add additional fishing restrictions and closures along several rivers and streams beginning July 29. Full fishing closures, aimed at protecting threatened bull trout populations along the Clark Fork River, will take effect within 100 yards of […]
Seven long years ago the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, with the support of local residents, took the Forest Service to federal court to halt the Hanna Flats logging, road-building, and burning project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest in northern Idaho. Through a long and winding legal saga the good news — for grizzly bears, old-growth forests, and the local populace which strongly opposed the deforestation — is that a federal appeals court just ruled for the Alliance.
A U.S. District Court judge ruled that the stay, requested while the park completes a supplementary environmental impact statement due to later bison migrations in winter, “invites abuse of discretion.”
A consolidated lawsuit brought over a 2024 bison management plan in the Greater Yellowstone Area will move forward after the U.S. District Court in Billings denied the federal government’s request to pause the suit. Alliance For the Wild Rockies and Council on Fish & Wildlife brought the suit at the beginning of January against the […]
Tourism in Montana supported 1 in 11 jobs statewide and saved the average household over $740 in taxes, according to the University of Montana.
Starting in August, recreationists can apply for a lottery to get a permit to snowmobile in Yellowstone National Park without a commercial guide.
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyoming — A video from Yellowstone National Park showing two visitors leaving the boardwalk and walking across bacterial mats at Grand Prismatic Pool is drawing attention online.
