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Brett French

Bow vs. atlatl: New research dates arrival of warfare upgrade in North America

Correction: Larry Todd is a native of Wyoming, not Montana. The retreat of snowfields and glaciers across North America has revealed stunning ancient artifacts, such as an 11,500-year-old atlatl dart recovered in the Beartooth Mountains in 2007. In the Southwest, dry caves and rock shelters have been

Big Sky touts water reuse as Montana panel examines expanding water recycling

Could one of Montana’s most expensive resort communities be an example of water reuse and conservation for the rest of the state? Or is the process so costly and complicated that reproducing Big Sky’s success at recycling as much as 170 to 190 million gallons of water a

Yellowstone wolf's skeleton testifies to strains of a wild life

Life’s misfortunes are often written on a body’s bones. The fall from a wall that cracked a construction worker’s skull. That whitewater canoe trip when your friend’s finger was smashed between the gunnel and a boulder. The tyrannosaurus tooth lodged in a duck-billed dinosaur’s

Yellowstone wolf's skeleton testifies to strains of a wild life

Life’s misfortunes are often written on a body’s bones. The fall from a wall that cracked a construction worker’s skull. That whitewater canoe trip when your friend’s finger was smashed between the gunnel and a boulder. The tyrannosaurus tooth lodged in a duck-billed dinosaur’s

American Prairie sues state Land Board over bison grazing directive

Montana’s top elected officials ordered the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation to ignore American Prairie’s latest request to graze bison on a parcel of adjoining state land, prompting the group to again take legal action. The lawsuit was filed on St. Patrick’s Day after the state&

Yellowstone National Park wolf population declined in 2025

Yellowstone National Park’s wolf population has declined from last year, according Yellowstone Wolf Project’s lead biologist Dan Stahler. The official count came to 84 wolves in eight packs. That’s down from 108 wolves in nine packs at the end of 2024. The group’s annual report, providing

Yellowstone elk took a cruise to New Zealand in 1905; their descendants are revered

Yellowstone National Park's elk are known to migrate hundreds of miles, but in 1905 seven cows and three bulls likely set a record — a distance of more than 7,500 nautical miles — when they took a cruise from Washington, D.C., to New Zealand. More than 120 years