Even in these subfreezing conditions, pikas don’t hibernate during the winter. They live beneath the snowpack, navigating ...

The high-pitched mountain dwellers helping scientists track climate change ...

Mountain Journal is dedicated to providing meaningful, fact-based journalism. We serve and inform the public about a key region that belongs to us all.

Mountain Journal is dedicated to providing meaningful, fact-based journalism. We serve and inform the public about a key region that belongs to us all.

Andrew Hansen has early memories of how poignantly people can impact the environment. He grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania with a river running through it. The water was polluted by an upstream paper ...

If passed, new bill would add sections of Madison and Gallatin Rivers to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System ...

In 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied further federal protections to wolves in Western states, prompting lawsuit ...

The U.S. Forest Service will abandon its nine regional offices as its parent Department of Agriculture consolidates out of Washington, D.C., according to a memo released Thursday by Agriculture ...

The fog of reorg: As USDA looks into reorganizing its Forest Service again, some are questioning the efficacy. And intent. Here, fog rolls through the forest in Lamar Valley, Yellowstone National Park ...

Since its introduction in the 1930s, white pine blister rust has caused extensive crown dieback and mortality in the charismatic white pine trees across the Rocky Mountain Front ...

Wildland firefighter mental health is in crisis. Learn how trauma, stress, and low support systems are impacting those on the frontlines of wildfire.