Can Bezos stoop any lower www.wsj.com/business/med...

It was 80 degrees in Billings last week in mid-April and Red Lodge had a big fire. Are we concerned yet about climate change? www.mtpr.org/montana-news...

“We urge you to stay the course and make it clear that Chinese auto manufacturers and their products present unprecedented dangers to our economic and national security, and their manufacture, sale, or operation on U.S. soil is non-negotiable,” Vote this kind of mentality out!

The Biden administration in 2022 estimated the work would cost $3.3 million. But Mr. Trump’s government agreed to pay Clark $11.9 million to do it, and later added tasks that increased the contract to $17.4 million. While our Parks struggle, Trump steals Park Service $$ for favors.

The bill would have required regulators to conduct economic and national security analyses when determining whether to list a species as endangered, This was how the GOP wanted to celebrate Earth Day

The desperate move is in response to projections that show Lake Powell, “without major intervention,” could drop below 3,490 feet in elevation by August, which would kill hydroelectric generation at Glen Canyon Dam. If it drops even further, the dam is in danger of structural failure.

"This morning, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said it was difficult to determine the actual causes of climate change." This guy who initially seemed like an intelligent choice, now just appears to be as dumb and incompetent as the rest of Trump's group www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/c...

Trump's BBB and trashing of Biden's energy policies is leading to this giant utility in the West switching to coal wyofile.com/wyoming-elec...

Watch a grizzly bear haul a deer carcass to claim as his own.

Living in the Greater Yellowstone, this is an accurate report of the disappearance of our trail network due to lack of Forest Service funding. FS maps show trails that are disappearing. Volunteers with Back Country Horsemen are the only one maintaining front country trails in the Shoshone NF

A proposal for mandatory cuts — designed to protect water elevations in Lake Powell — outlines major cutbacks on the amount of water flowing to the Phoenix and Tucson areas. Inflows to Lake Powell from April through July are projected to be 22% of normal

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Does he plan to use tactical nuclear weapons? He is really getting scary. As the GOP happily goes on vacation www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

We need your help please. Please share. Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico is a UNESCO World Heritage Site containing over a thousand years of Indigenous history ancient ruins, sacred sites, and cultural landmarks built by the ancestors of today’s Pueblo peoples.

Elect a developer and this is what you get. www.sfgate.com/national-par...

Skunks in the High Mountains -An Indicator Species? During my twenty years living at 6500'+ in the Absarokas east of Yellowstone National Park, I've rarely seen evidence of skunks. Sure there are plenty of striped skunks in the Bighorn Basin which is at 5000' with irrigated agricultural lands.…

Trump is moving the Forest Service headquarters to Utah.. Not a small move but read this post to understand how its the attempt by GOP and billionaires to steal our public lands morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

A Bear Close Encounter, Lessons Learned, and More about Grizzlies Our ride dropped us off in Waterton Lakes National Park, the real start of our adventure. Standing at the roadside, thumbs out, sometimes holding a sign “you drink, we drive”, had been fun, but the purpose behind our hitchhiking…

Latest is Indivisible Helena has found a work around. They cannot crush our free speech!

“The Countries of the World that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage, and we will help — A LOT!,” Trump said in a social media post Saturday. “This should have always been a team effort, and now it will be.” Shit on your neighbor then plead with them for help

First grizzly east of the Park this morning by the house. He's about 2 weeks early. We've had a very mild snowless winter. @ 6400' He looks really good.

Explore questions with me about how moving and capturing grizzlies might affect their attitude towards humans

My latest blog post. Questions on how moving, handling, collaring affects grizzly bears. Comments welcome lesliepattenbooks.com/2026/03/08/h...

A moment of relief for your enjoyment in the midst of this craziness

This is Wyoming where in 85% of our state wolves can be killed anyway, anytime, classified as "predators". Wolves are having a tough time in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and now Colorado. cowboystatedaily.com/2026/02/25/w...

For what he did, I think this is too light of a sentence. He should have his hunting license taken away for life wyofile.com/wolf-captor-...

The top federal safety regulator for offshore oil and gas drilling in Alaska publicly warned agency counterparts that his office lacked the staffing to oversee existing operations. Miller wrote that his office’s staffing was “below sustainable levels necessary to oversee current lease operations.”

Largest data center in the US in WY with the potential to scale up to 10 gigawatts. One gigawatt can power approximately 750,000 to one million average U.S. homes, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Using natural gas, contributing to warming, displacing homes. Happening all over the US

“Rather than hiring a conservation champion, Trump is showing his disdain for the national parks by appointing a person with no experience and no vision for how they should be run,” This nomination fits with privatizing our National Parks

I can't see how any of this is a good thing. "a housing development called Village Place had the rights to build an additional 250 housing units, but the owner sold the land to a data-center developer for $31 million. Data-center developer NTT later paid $257 million for another vacant acreage."

This administration is not just evil, but so petty. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/b...

The bring-back-polio coalition. In my lifetime I knew 2 people who had polio as a child. Lifelong effects. “Prior to vaccines, one in five kids didn’t make it to their fifth birthday," said Jennifer Herricks, advocacy director for American Families for Vaccines. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...

It's more and more clear how this man bankrupted 6 businesses wapo.st/4aHbN0J

Have they seen the light yet? cowboystatedaily.com/2026/02/10/w...

Constant shit show every morning when I wake up to the news www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

Band of Crazies... "Clark has called climate initiatives part of a plot to “control” Americans” and to undermine the U.S. economy. He has called environmentalists a “crazy climate cult” and compared them to the authoritarian pig characters in George Orwell’s dystopian novel “Animal Farm.”"

Living in the West all my life, I think about water. Passing through St. George UT I asked where is their water coming from? St. George is in a rapid growth phase for the last 10 or so years. Old article but the Colorado Compact is up for review this year. www.utahbusiness.com/industry/202...

The Roosevelt Republicans are in retreat. The indoor Republicans have arrived. Since the rise of the MAGA movement, many Republican elites no longer seem interested in riding horses in the Rockies or fly fishing in the Adirondacks. Jackson Hole is out. Palm Beach is in.

Been a crazy warm winter, in the 40s and 50s on the eastern edge of Yellowstone. Climate deniers used to call this a Chinook (a short warm spell) but they can't attribute all winter to a Chinook www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/s...

Horror of horrors. Who are these people www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/b...

From WY US rep. Hageman. Shes getting push back "Last week, I joined my colleagues to file an amicus brief supporting President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. Neither the Constitution nor Congress grants citizenship to the children of noncitizens, including illegal aliens."

Wyoming's sole legislator gets pushback on ICE at another townhall. People are upset even in the most conservative state in the Union cowboystatedaily.com/2026/01/29/a...

What did his nephew think about Mr. Trump renaming the place “The Trump Kennedy Center”? “It was made as a memorial for the nation because my uncle is deeply committed to the arts,” Mr. Kennedy responded, “and I think President Trump is also committed to the arts.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/a...

In their lawsuit, the authors alleged that Meta higher-ups considered paying for books to train their AI models but opted to instead download millions of books free from “torrent” platforms that facilitate online piracy. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

We should just have it because we can. Some Republicans are lining up behind Trump. That makes me even more angry than Trump. Congress is flaccid. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

The future. Trump's obsession with oil will put us in last place www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

I'm hating it more and more each day www.axios.com/2026/01/16/c...

AI data center come to Wyoming www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/wyoming-econ...