Limber pines in the Yellowstone are in trouble Both limber and whitebark pine produce the largest seeds of any Wyoming conifer, making them a critical food source for grizzly bears, black bears, Clark's nutcrackers, pine squirrels, chipmunks, and a long list of birds.

A few of my Mountain lion trail cam capture for 2025. Turn up your volume to hear the many sounds of these large cats. youtu.be/vGhrJYnAGDc?...

The Big Ugly Bill is beginning to destroy home solar installations www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2025/12/resi...

Let's see how many Americans we can get to watch the 60 minutes segment on CECOT aired on Canada’s Global TV app and was shared by this Bluesky user @jasonparis.bsky.social. Here's a link to the full segment. No to Censorship www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Their "mission" is to get rid of our public lands. First gut the staff and monies and the USFS was already squeezed and understaffed. Then say the govt. does such a poor job we have to 1. privatize management and 2. sell these last best lands to billionaires www.sfgate.com/national-par...

Trump, and all his billionaire suck ups hate wildlife and the environment. Brian Nesvik, head of USFWS, once head of WY Game and Fish, aims to gut wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries that no long "serve the mission." Isn't the "mission" about wildlife not money for billionaires.

Just spent over an hour on chat and phone with bots with no results. A common experience. I see very little use in AI business replacing actual people www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Tracking, AI, Human Gaits I had an interesting experience I thought I'd relay. First, a disclaimer. Personally I'm very skeptical when it comes to AI. The vast amounts of energy it uses, the confiscation of farmlands for data centers, the potential unemployment it will cause, all the unknowns of…

This is disgusting, Their cruelty knows no depth In addition to the deafblind initiatives, the Education Department said it had slashed money for more than two dozen similar programs, including a school for the blind. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...

Do Wolves Change Rivers or Do Men Change Wolves? I'm thrilled today because for the first time in a long time I followed wolf tracks, three wolves who were on a mission. Why so excited? In the past on this blog I've written about following wolf tracks, about watching wolves in our valley in the…

Winter, climate and wildlife Winter is slowly creeping in. Our temps are above normal for December (daytime 30s and some 40s) but the wind has been arctic fierce. So different than when I first moved here in 2006. December wasn't always our snowiest month, but definitely our coldest. Back in…

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This is good news, but probably a male. A jaguar biologist told me females would have to be brought in because they don't wander far abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Changes to the ESA! "if the Trump administration determined that the economic harm to a golf course would be greater than protections for the Florida panther, then they could make that determination," she said. "It would essentially potentially put money over the science.

Before the fur trade, beavers…..not deer were the backbone of many predator diets. Wolves following beavers is not an anomaly; it’s a glimpse of what North America looked like before we trapped its keystone species out of existence. queticosuperior.org/wolves-track...

Listen or read WY Public radio piece on what happens to wolves when they leave the protection of Yellowstone Park. I live in a WY trophy zone. We never hear or see wolves anymore. www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/open-spaces/...

The high intelligence of wolves. Watch this wolf figure out how to swim out and haul in a crab trap

Gift article. L.A. obsessed with their new neighbors...bears. www.wsj.com/us-news/blac...

When wolves leave the park, they die — often, quickly. In Wyoming 85% of the state it's legal to kill wolves all year any method. In Montana, a long wolf trapping and hunting season with high tag limits decimates wolves. We have a problem in the Mountain West for wolves wyofile.com/what-happens...

Please explain what is the purpose of this misdemeanor runner's pardon? Maybe a middle finger to the Park Service? Or this pardon for a Wyoming diesel mechanic who spent 7 months in federal prison for tweaking & removing emissions systems on ailing engines. www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/environ...

federal workers congregated in the parking lot of Grand Teton National Park headquarters for a Hole Food Rescue pop-up event. Employees expressed frustration at not being able to do their jobs, and an eagerness for normalcy. They also reported feeling stir crazy.

A young male mountain lion checks out a cave frequented by big males.

My daughter in law has a small business with a product made in China. It's been delayed in customs for a long time over tariffs, but now this month still delayed because of the shutdown. She has missed holiday orders because of the GOP shutdown. I think this is true for a lot of businesses.

First peep out of Brian Nesvik, Trump's director of USFWS trying to dismantle the Colorado wolf reintroduction cowboystatedaily.com/2025/10/24/b...

Our local Wyoming paper called me this morning for any statement I'd like to make on our No Kings protest. I kind of rambled on a bit. Towards the end of the article www.codyenterprise.com/news/local/a...

The federal marketplace allows people who don’t get health insurance through their employer to buy their own plan. Roughly 77,000 Montanans buy that coverage. Premiums for Montanans are increasing between 11% to 29%. Montana needs to stop voting MAGA www.mtpr.org/montana-news...

Our Wyoming town today. Nice turnout for the reddest state

This is how we do it on Cody Wy

An assault by this Administration on one of the last pristine wildlife areas, and surprise! the Trump Administration also announced that it would take a stake in one of the foreign-owned mining companies with mining claims in the area.

Homeland Security agents would be allowed to execute search and rescue operations; use motor vehicles, motorboats, and motorized equipment; and conduct patrols on foot and on horseback in official wilderness. It also would allow for airstrips to be built in wilderness.

Kendall said taxpayers and local governments fought to get mining companies to pay a fair amount for public minerals. And it worked.

Some very good news.

The end game CO₂ emissions from the biggest tech players rose by an average of 150% between 2020 and 2023. The cause? AI Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet had emissions increases of 182%, 155%, 145% and 138%, respectively, over the period surveyed. www.techcentral.ie/un-report-fi...

Grand Teton National Park difficulties with staff reductions by Trump and threat of more coming wyofile.com/tourist-life...

Excellent interview with Chris Servheen on the efforts to delist Grizzly Bears, the perils they face with this new administration who denies climate change, abandoned the roadless rule, and Rep. Hagemann's bill to delist with no future court interventions yellowstonian.org/broken-promi...

“Terrific news. Terminate the Green New SCAM,” Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) wrote in a post to X." More down the road of the stupid timeline we're in. Green energy isn't going away because Trump says so. We'll just be way behind the rest of the world and especially China will be raking in the $$

Do not agree with this! It's first of all a way for the public not to feel what the GOP is doing. Parks in the West are usually in rural Republican states. It's also dangerous for our Parks as there will not be enough employees to manage resource damage, illegal off-roading and more.

Trump is on a name changing spree—Dept of War, Gulf of America. He should change the EPA to the Environmental Pollution Agency. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/c...

Folks, the movie that predicted our present stupid timeline is now on Netflix. One of my favorite all time movies. A perfect description of this Administration and will make you laugh www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=7...

Gift article wapo.st/4mBJ3cn

RFK Jr. was pro-choice before he gave up all his integrity and joined this administration. And what happened to going after chemicals used in foods and farming? Way deep down the dark dank dirty rabbit hole of Trumpism. cowboystatedaily.com/2025/09/25/r...

KSVI Montana is my ABC station, owned by Nexstar. That means I will NOT get Kimmel tonight. Suggestions how to complain (I'd already cancelled my Hulu last week in protest to Disney)

I saw on my recorded Kimmel feed they've replaced him with News Nation. That's sounds like a real money maker! Not sure if my ABC station in Montana is on Sinclair's chopping list or not.

I no longer understand America. People driving 3 days for this memorial? The photo looks like an all white crowd. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

Kirk’s “rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans," Ocasio-Cortez said. Dems should have lead with this. Many instead voted for the resolution. Meanwhile Emmer (R. Minn.) seemed to forget about his state's right wing killer & chastised Dems

Tell the Forest Service to keep the existing Roadless Rule! #RoadlessRule #PublicLands #PublicLandsInPublicHands #USFS #ForestService #Forests https://www.glaciertwomedicine.org/protect-roadless-lands-badger-two-medicine/

Complain directly to ABC. Use your voice and tell them what you feel about canceling Jimmy Kimmel and submitting to the worm in the White House. Heres the link support.abc.com/hc/en-us?ret...

Grizzly mom feeds on chokecherries while her COY (cubs of the year) play. Wyoming