Geographical Location: Northwest

Beavers are expanding their ranges deeper into Alaska, and their ecosystem engineering may be speeding up the melting of Alaska’s permafrost. “One major take home from our paper is that,...

When Sarah Bassing and her colleagues wanted to know what parts of their study areas were occupied by wolves, they asked them. “We would go to these random sites and...

It’s natural for researchers to focus on the coast when studying shorebirds, but when Ellen Martin was studying them in Alaska as a master’s student at Colorado State University, she...

A fragmented landscape places obstacles in the path of swift fox expansion in Montana. Once much more common in the state’s grasslands, the foxes have declined over the last century....

The Bureau of Land Management will allow increased oil and gas drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The BLM released a final Environmental Impact Statement for the reserve...

Jiake Zhou and three of his colleagues traveled 16 days on inflatable rubber boats in the northern Alaskan wilderness without seeing any other human, with nothing but a few guns...

Tests have confirmed the presence of the fungus that causes the deadly white-nose syndrome in bats for the first time in Montana. The presence Pseudogymnoascus destructans, or Pd, was confirmed...

A federal judge halted a proposed land exchange last week in Alaska that would allow for the construction of a 12-mile gravel road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. The...

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Science Program Supervisor Alan Wood received the Montana Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s Distinguished Service Award for 2020 in recognition for more than three decades...

The Department of the Interior announced last week that it would amend regulations regarding hunting and trapping in Alaska’s national preserves by allowing some harvest methods that were prohibited by...