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Wind River Reservation residents say they've received good medicine with the delivery of 50 wild bison last month. Wyoming Public Radio's Signa McAdams, an enrolled Eastern Shoshone member, attended the historic event.

This weekend two of the four yearling cubs from the famous grizzly bear 399 were captured and collared by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This comes after the famous grizzly bear and her yearlings have traveled south outside of Grand Teton National Park.

Big game species like deer, elk, and pronghorn are closely tied to their environments. As droughts and storms driven by climate change become more common, it's becoming even more important to learn how they're all linked. Wyoming Public Radio's Ivy Engel has more.

Wildlife biologists are proposing select winter closures in the Tetons in an effort to protect locally-endangered bighorn sheep. Some backcountry skiers aren't happy about it.

Once there is a seven percent prevalence of chronic wasting disease, the study predicts a modest decline of elk.

Once extirpated, there are now close to 200 wild Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to let the population grow beyond the current cap of 325.

In 2015, the USFWS implemented a new rule known as 10j that turned over black-footed ferret management to the State of Wyoming. According to WildEarth Guardians, Western Watersheds Project, and Rocky Mountain Wild, the state has since mishandled the ferret's reintroduction and management.

There already have been more grizzly bear mortalities, including naturally caused and human-caused, this year than last year. But the Wyoming Game and Fish Department say this doesn't portray the whole story.

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.