This special edition of PERC Reports uses the hit television show “ Yellowstone’s” portrayals of the Rocky Mountain West to examine real-world western issues. Explore the full issue here. “Yellowstone” is a gripping drama that has won a large audience by telling stories that stay true to human nature. Precisely for that reason, the […]
This special edition of PERC Reports uses the hit television show “ Yellowstone’s” portrayals of the Rocky Mountain West to examine real-world western issues. Explore the full issue here. Monica Long, a character ostensibly of Crow or Blackfoot descent, is offered an associate professorship by the president of Montana State University in “Yellowstone’s” Season […]
This special edition of PERC Reports uses the hit television show “ Yellowstone’s” portrayals of the Rocky Mountain West to examine real-world western issues. Explore the full issue here. People are watching “Yellowstone.” Lots of people. The Season 4 premiere of the blockbuster television series drew nearly 15 million viewers in one night. It […]
This special edition of PERC Reports uses the hit television show “ Yellowstone’s” portrayals of the Rocky Mountain West to examine real-world western issues. Explore the full issue here. Montana’s Paradise Valley is known to many as the home of rancher John Dutton in the hit television series “Yellowstone.” But for those of us […]
[…] unobstructed habitat for elk and other wildlife on private lands while reducing conflict between elk and cattle. In this case, the agreement was co-created by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Property and Environment Research Center, and a local family ranch. In return for funding to construct a 1.25-mile wildlife-friendly fence, the ranching family has agreed […]
PERC and GYC have partnered to implement the first elk occupancy agreement in the northern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
PERC and GYC have partnered with a family ranch to enact the first elk occupancy agreement in the northern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
[…] vulnerable to development.It is impossible to conserve elk, wolves, grizzly bears, and other species without private lands and the people who steward them. Here in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem 68 percent of the land is public, but the 32 percent that is private provides a significant share of important habitats like winter range, migration […]
[…] a million more visitors per year in this park, what does that mean for trash removal? How many more times do you have to clean the bathrooms?” Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly told the Property and Environment Research Center. A little more than a decade ago, Yellowstone had never hosted more than 3 million visits. […]
[…] the room. “Hank Fischer,” the rancher shouted, “ain’t nobody killed you yet?” It might as well have been a scene out of Kevin Costner’s hit television show Yellowstone. The “wolf wars,” as Fischer later dubbed them in his book by that title, pitted environmentalists against ranchers worried about carnivores killing their livestock. As the […]