Best Friends Forever – from The Wildlife Professional
It’s late fall in the high mountains of western North America and the whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) forests are alive with activity. Birds and mammals are ...
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Study takes ‘vital signs’ of Yellowstone ecosystem
If you want to know how healthy an ecosystem is, wouldn’t it help to have a list a vital signs — the sort of summary a doctor uses to check on patients’ ...
For Yellowstone grizzlies, paths may lead out of isolation
When Yellowstone grizzlies lost their threatened status last June, advocates for the bears feared they were too isolated to sustain their populations without ...
USFWS announces delisting of Yellowstone grizzly bears
On Jun. 22, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced their intent to publish a final rule removing grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) of the Greater ...
Hairs show grizzlies prefer declining tree species
A changing environment in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, including a decrease in whitebark pine trees, might be causing some trouble for grizzly bears (Ursus ...
USFWS and NPS propose changes for grizzly bear management
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s plans to lift the Endangered Species Act status of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) of the Greater Yellowstone ...