Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Laramie-based writer Christine Peterson shared how collaborative projects, long-term wildlife monitoring and interagency relationships suffered from cuts in the last year with Wyoming Public Radio’s Hannah Habermann.

The grizzly was previously relocated from Montana to Wyoming to improve genetic connectivity. Now, she has reproduced.

The numbers are fueling the debate about whether grizzlies should remain protected under the Endangered Species Act.

The western meadowlark is one of the birds featured in the Draper Natural History Museum. Wyoming was the first state to make the meadowlark its state bird in 1927.

The birds have long beaks they use to scarf up ants and beetles on the forest floor, or they drum on tree bark to find bugs.

While ice patches preserve objects intact for long periods of time, the Draper Natural History Museum Curatorial Assistant said as soon as the ice melts things decay quickly. That’s why some objects in the exhibit are replicas.

A display of grizzly bear and mountain lion skeletons took over 750 hours to reconstruct.

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The comment period just opened for the proposal to keep grizzlies in the Northern Rockies classified as “threatened” — with some tweaks to how they are managed.

Those lands could include farms and ranches in Park County, buffalo habitat on the Wind River Indian Reservation, and lands in the Greater Yellowstone area that provide migration corridors and cultural resources.