4 Winter Escapes from San Diego
San Diego Magazine
This time of year in Montana's Yellowstone Country, steam billows from the geysers, and lift lines bustle with snow lovers looking for fresh powder. Those who prefer Nordic skiing or snowshoeing follow trails to geysers and thermal features ...

Yellowstone area's rare loon population is stable but fragile
Casper Star-Tribune Online
Through a six-year partnership between the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service, largely funded by the Ricketts Conservation Foundation, biologists have learned that Wyoming's nesting loons are likely stable, but ...

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Your children's Yellowstone will be radically different
WRAL.com
In 2016, the Yellowstone River — famous for its fly fishing and its cutthroat trout, which thrive in colder waters — was closed to anglers for 183 miles downstream from the park after an outbreak of kidney disease killed thousands of fish. “The ...

Disney does tours: Exploring Montana and Wyoming with the Mouse
USA TODAY
“Hey look! It's Disney,” exclaimed a little girl as my family and I made our way along the Fountain Pot Trail in Yellowstone National Park. We were part of an Adventures by Disney tour group, and the girl was referring to the distinctive logo imprinted ...

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Spring Creeks and Smart Trout
Robb Report
Paradise Valley is not a retirement community or an eccentric television show. It's the scenic setting where the Yellowstone River flows beside green pastures between the Absaroka and Gallatin mountains. It's worth the drive down Highway 89, from ...

Fly tying: A portal to the spiritual experience of fly-fishing
The Livingston Enterprise
On a recent Tuesday evening at Sweetwater Fly Shop south of Livingston, on the bank of the Yellowstone River, shop hands Sam Cassidy and James Mugele and local fishing guide Alex Emery gather at a table with Katie Richardson, a pupa in the fly fishing ...

A Guide to Livingston, Montana, the Literary Town on the Yellowstone River
New York Times
With Yellowstone National Park just an hour's drive away, Livingston is a perfect base camp for hikers, and the town's fishing guides make it their business to know every curve of the Yellowstone River. But the park's mountains, streams and forests ...

Grizzly Debate Reignites Question Of Game And Fish Revenue
Wyoming Public Media
The Wyoming legislature passed a resolution last legislative session asking the National Park Service and neighboring states to look at creating a wildlife user fee for people that enter Yellowstone National Park so that they can possibly get those ...

Indian Fort fishing access site reopens near Reed Point
Ravalli Republic
About 200 yards of the access road still are too narrow for two vehicles to pass, so motorists will need to observe one-lane courtesies when meeting another vehicle entering or exiting the fishing access site. While the repaired roadway is wide enough ...

The Eddy Line: Keep your season going
Explore Big Sky
Whether you've got the time and resources to travel to fish, or have to stick closer to home, just because the days are shorter and the nights are colder doesn't mean you have to forego angling for another six months. Now is the time to ... From ...