Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Wildlife photographer Patricia Lavin captured this image of then 26-year-old Grizzly 399 in September 2022. (Patricia Lavin)

Wildlife photographer Patricia Lavin captured this image of then 26-year-old Grizzly 399 in September 2022. (Patricia Lavin)

FROM WYOFILE:    A Gov. Mark Gordon-led petition targeting the U.S. Department of Interior is intended to compel action on the state’s earlier petition. Ultimately, the goal is for Wyoming to gain control over — and hunt — its grizzly bears.   The state of Wyoming is going to court again over...
Famous bruin arrives with youngster, the oldest GYE grizzly to bear a litter.   JACKSON — About an hour earlier, Grizzly 399 had crossed the road.   Her small, newly born cub of the year poked along behind her. When the duo approached a crowd of 60 or so wildlife watchers and photographers, Grand...
JACKSON (WNE) — Yellowstone National Park plans to open its south entrance, the most easily accessible from Jackson, at 8 a.m. Friday.   If the weather cooperates, all but one of the park’s roads will be open at that time. The road between Canyon Village and Tower Fall that runs over Dunraven Pass...
POWELL (WNE) —  Although a judge praised a Cody hunter for his “very responsible” decision to self-report the violation, the man must pay $10,000 for his role in the mistaken killing of a grizzly bear last spring.    During a May 2022 hunt with his son in the North Fork area, Joel Proffit mistook...
PINEDALE — Enough people were curious about what billionaire Joe Ricketts had to say of his plans for a luxury resort at Jackson Fork Ranch near rural Bondurant to fill the Pinedale Library’s Lovatt Room on May 2.    Peter Scherbel, Sublette County Chamber of Commerce board president, opened by...
POWELL — As Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives slogged through 15 votes to elect a new speaker in early January, they spent more than 25 hours on the House floor together, with little to do but visit. And U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) said she took advantage.    “I used every...
JACKSON – Scientists have called a swarm of about 60 earthquakes under Yellowstone Lake on Tuesday and Wednesday “normal.”   Bob Smith, the University of Utah geologist who wrote the book on Yellowstone National Park’s geology, and Michael Poland, the scientist in charge of the Yellowstone Volcano...
JACKSON – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service opposes Wyoming congresswoman Harriet Hageman’s legislative push to remove Endangered Species Act protections from Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears.   But the Wyoming Game and Fish Department backs delisting “by whatever means is necessary...

Grizzly 399 sizes up the Snake River before a crossing in May 2022. The celebrity of bears like Grizzly 399 has exacerbated tensions about the prospect of grizzly hunting. (Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile)

Future Wyoming grizzly bear hunts — a near certainty if federal authorities approve the state’s petition to again remove the animals’ Endangered Species Act protections — would likely target more than triple the number of bruins than previously proposed hunts, according to a state analysis.   The...
SHERIDAN — U.S. Congresswoman Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, is hopeful some of her legislation will reach the President’s desk and encouraged Wyomingites to be ready to take power from Washington, D.C.   Hageman attended Eggs & Issues, an event for the local delegation to review the Wyoming...

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