EBS STAFF On Monday, June 24, the public is invited to a family-friendly event focused on bear safety education, hosted by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks....
EBS STAFF A grizzly bear reportedly charged a hiker this morning in the Six Mile area of the Yellowstone Ranger District in Custer Gallatin National Forest....
EBS STAFF On April 25, a man searching for shed antlers shot and killed an adult female grizzly bear on private land northwest of Wolf Creek,...
EBS STAFF Biologists with the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team and Yellowstone National Park will be conducting field captures of black and grizzly bears between May...
Climate variation is interrupting bear hibernation By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST In northern climates, grizzly bears and black bears typically survive cold weather by entering...
By John Clayton WRITERS ON THE RANGE When my friends and I encountered the fresh grizzly bear scat, we were deep in Wyoming’s Teton Wilderness, 20...
Dear Editor, This is Rudy “Kissy Bear” Noorlander. You can thank Explore Big Sky’s Hoary Marmot podcast hosts Joe and Michelle for my new nickname. Since...
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST This past October, I was invited to go hunting with family and friends at the American Prairie Reserve. We stayed...
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST One late August evening years ago, I worked for the U.S. Forest Service and was stationed at Marias Pass between...
Grizzly attack prompts multi-agency response, heli-flight GALLATIN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE BIG SKY – On Sept. 8, 2023 at 1:47 p.m. Madison County Dispatch received a 911 call from a hunting party where...