UM climate professor makes space for both in his college classroom, finds humor can be an effective teaching tool ...

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Yellowstone National Park officials are asking for public input to weigh plans to rebuild the park’s North Entrance Road, a ...

Study shows that partisan misperceptions about opponents may lead to conflict, even when consensus is possible ...

Roughly 4,000 landowners control two-thirds of the private land in the state. A recent study highlights what that means for ...

Three men face felony animal cruelty charges in southwest Wyoming for allegedly roping and riding a moose. The case is ...

A black wolf moves through the sage brush in Yellowstone National Park in the fall of 2025. Credit: Ben Bluhm CORRECTION: This article has been corrected to reflect that study co-author Michael Lewis ...

Snow piles up along the Gallatin River. Come spring, melting runoff will swell surface waters and seep into groundwater, recharging the aquifer. However, dwindling snowpacks due to climate change make ...

The Trump administration for the past year has been making plans for a consolidated federal wildland firefighting service. The deadlines to date have come and gone. Now, some stakeholders are claiming ...

A wolf from the Wapiti Lake Pack in Yellowstone National Park stares through the trees in fall 2025. For decades, scientists have debated the concept of the trophic cascade. New research suggests it ...

A seismic Grand Prismatic: Montana State University microbiologist Eric Boyd has studied the interaction of Yellowstone Park's oldest lifeforms and the highly active earthquake zone they may depend on ...