wildlife

It’s no secret that sage grouse numbers have been declining in the West for decades. Once numbering in the millions, the ecologically critical species has faltered due to habitat loss from wildfire, drought, and human development. There's not much research, though, into the role of hunting greater and Gunnison sage grouse across the West.

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department plans to continue feeding elk in the winter at the Dell Creek Feedground in Northern Sublette County. A recent court decision found that the department's previous permit to winter feed elk, granted by the U.S. Forest Service, expired at the end of 2017 and there was no record of renewal, despite the department continuing to feed there in the years since.

Back in 2016, Teton County was struggling with bears eating crab apples. The solution...make cider out of those apples. With that Wyoming's one cidery was born. Wyoming Public Radio's Kamila Kudelska has this story.

Yellowstone National Park announced earlier on Monday, September 27, that three wolves from the famous Junction Butte Pack were killed during the first week of Montana's wolf hunting season.

A U.S. District of Wyoming Court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) improperly permitted two of the three feed grounds that were reviewed because they conducted improper environmental analyses.

The National Park Service (NPS) and Devils Tower Natural History Association are hosting a bat festival this Saturday, Sept. 25 at Devils Tower National Monument. The festival will feature educational talks, showcase technology that allows people to hear bat echolocation calls, and will give people the opportunity to build their own bat houses using repurposed lumber.

This spring, Wyoming Game and Fish Department biologists and trained volunteers headed out into the state's sagebrush seas to count the number of male sage grouse displaying at their traditional breeding grounds, known as leks. This year, the department reported lek attendance was down 13 percent since 2020.

The $350 million investment would reduce the number of expensive and deadly wildlife-vehicle collisions – an issue that's especially acute in more rural Western states.

The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service said on Thursday it is initiating a comprehensive status review of the gray wolf to determine if federal protections need to be reinstated. Conservation groups petitioned the service because of aggressive wolf hunting campaigns in Montana and Idaho.

Wyoming is asking the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service to restore state management of grizzly bears.