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conservation biology

Missoula workshop encourages native plant use

Missoula, Mont. — A University of Montana students' capstone project in Missoula is focused on helping people make spring planting choices that work better for city spaces. Missoula Urban Demonstration, or MUD, hosted a Boulevard Biodiversity Workshop with a group of University of Montana students. The workshop centered on ways

Rare otter triplets born at zoo give hope for endangered breed

Rare otter triplets born at zoo give hope for endangered breed

By Ed Chatterton Conservationists are celebrating the birth of giant otter triplets at a Chester Zoo in the U.K. — bringing fresh hope one of the world's most endangered species can be saved from extinction. The adorable trio of pups are the first of their kind to be

Translocated grizzly bear has cubs in Yellowstone area, strengthening grizzly's genetic diversity

Translocated grizzly bear has cubs in Yellowstone area, strengthening grizzly's genetic diversity

HELENA, Mont. – Montana and Wyoming-based bear biologists celebrated as a female grizzly bear, who had been transferred to the Yellowstone area from Northwestern Montana, emerged from her den with two new cubs. She was moved from the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem in 2024 and put in the Greater Yellowstone

Reforming recovery: PERC leader urges ESA update as rare bipartisan consensus emerges in Senate hearing

Brian Yablonski, the CEO of Bozeman-based conservation group Property and Environment Research Center, served as the majority witness in a March Senate hearing on ways to update the Endangered Species Act. The Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife hearing marked an increasingly rare moment

Jennifer Boyer: We need to modernize Roadless Rule, not toss it out

Prior to serving on the Gallatin County Commission, I spent decades emersed in collaborative efforts addressing natural resources. These consensus-driven approaches wrestled with endangered species, drought management, public lands, and recreation conflicts to forge solutions supporting resource health and community well-being. Counties are on the front lines working

Record low number of threatened species get new protections under Trump, zero in second term

President Donald Trump’s administration listed fewer vulnerable species for protection than any other presidential administration since Congress passed the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Trump’s first term added 22 species to the 1,700-species list. So far in his second term,

Judge halts major logging project near Whitefish

A federal judge in Missoula has stopped a logging project on 28,000 acres of Flathead National Forest land near Whitefish, agreeing with a coalition of conservation organizations the federal government had neglected to consider risks to critical lynx habitat and consider cumulative effects of a nearby project. “There is