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Brett French

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

Lecture, tour highlights Paradise Valley's use by native hunters

It's a bison bonanza in the windy community of Livingston March 10, 11 and 14. The Yellowstone Heritage Museum starts things off with a reception on March 10 at 5:30 p.m. Then on March 11 Montana State University professor Craig Lee will give a public talk

Montana dude ranch seeks water lease for its members-only golf course under new law

The Crazy Mountain Ranch’s proposal to use new legislation to lease water to itself to irrigate an 18-hole and 3-par golf course has gained initial approval from the state. The Department of Natural Resources and Conservation posted its decision on Feb. 19. That started the clock ticking

Montana FWP struggles with more hunters as there are fewer private lands to hunt

Much like the current U.S. economy, Montana’s most-prized hunter access program is facing a K-shaped conundrum. On the one hand, the Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ Block Management Program is seeing increased demand, rising from around 250,000 hunters in 1999 to close to 700,

American bison return to the National Mall With New Exhibitions, bronze sculptures

How a lone Montana bison bull has linked people, art and history across 140 years

This circuitous tale, that connects a massive bison bull across 140 years of American history, begins in 1886 when getting a message across Montana was a life-threatening task. “My lost courier turned up alive after six days and nights out in the blizzard with only a raw sage hen