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.

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Park County Commission unanimously supports citizen-initiated zoning district following local opposition to high-density resort proposed by Miami-based developer ...

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 ...

Rampart-like formations of the Absaroka Volcanics are the remains of stratovolcanoes, similar to Mount St. Helens. Credit: Rob Thomas Just before Highway 89 enters Yankee Jim Canyon at the southern ...