Yellowstone National Park

  • Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act Reintroduced

    George Wuerthner

    The Beartooth Mountains contain some of the most extensive alpine terrain in the Rockies. Photo by George Wuerthner The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA) is the most comprehensive and ecologically defensible legislation currently before Congress. The Act was first introduced in 1993. NREPA was reintroduced by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Madeleine Dean, who…

  • Wild Bison, Victim of Politics and Political Correctness

    George Wuerthner

    Ghost Bull, named for his ability to avoid tribal hunters outside of Yellowstone National Park. Photo by George Wuerthner I watched Ghost Bull grazing just outside of Yellowstone National Park’s northern border. Ghost Bull is a name given to the bison by wildlife advocates because he seems to come and go, eluding tribal shooters who…

  • The Last Wild Bison

    George Wuerthner

    The wild bison in Yellowstone National Park are the last major herd of buffalo, the least domesticated members of their genus left in the United States. When Yellowstone was established in 1872, an estimated 25 wild bison roamed the park, a relic of the great herds that once roamed the entire West. With protection, the…

  • Why the Alliance for the Wild Rockies is Taking Yellowstone National Park to Court over Its Scientifically-Deficient Bison Management Plan

    Mike Garrity

    Tens of millions of wild bison once roamed across western North America. Today, wild bison occupy less than one percent of their former range.  Yet in spite of this, the National Park Service’s new bison management plan does nothing to expand the range of the 5,000 wild bison that live almost exclusively in Yellowstone National Park. Instead,…

  • Interview About Public Lands And Indian Land Back Efforts

    George Wuerthner

    In this episode, George Wuerthner discusses issues arising about tribal efforts to garner more authority and control of public lands, and the efforts to transfer public lands to tribal entities.  Click on the link above to listen in your browser or the PLAY button in the upper left corner below.

  • The Need For More Wilderness Preservation

    George Wuerthner

    Big W, or designated wilderness as prescribed under the 1964 Wilderness Act, is one of the most biocentric pieces of legislation ever passed by Congress. Under the Act’s mandate, federal lands that meet the essential criteria of roadless character and “untrammeled” by human influence will be protected from resource exploitation so that natural evolutionary and…

  • Conservation Transfer Program Degrades Wild Bison

    George Wuerthner

    A recent article in the Bozeman Chronicle described the Yellowstone “Bison Conservation” Transfer Program. The federal government is transferring public bison that belong to all Americans to tribal reservations, which is essentially a privatization of public wildlife. In the process, they are accelerating the domestication of wild bison from Yellowstone National Park. Restoration and conservation…

  • Is Reducing Wildfire Fuels Common Sense?

    George Wuerthner

    One continuously hears that “common sense” dictates that logging the forest to decrease “fuels” will eliminate or reduce large wildfires. Common sense also suggests the sun circles the earth, as anyone can quickly determine by watching it rise in the east and set in the west. However, as most of us know, the earth circles…

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Edward Abbey

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