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Jake Bolster

Reporter, Wyoming and the West

Jake Bolster reports on Wyoming and the West for Inside Climate News. Previously, he worked as a freelancer, covering climate change, energy, and the environment across the United States. He holds a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University.

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Bison graze near the North Entrance of Yellowstone National Park. Credit: Jacob W. Frank/NPS

Meeting Climate Targets Requires Humanity to Reorient Its Relationship With Nature, New Study Says

By Jake Bolster

An air tanker works to slow the spread of the Dollar Lake Fire as it burns through Wyoming in August 2025. Credit: Kris Bruington/BLM

The Warm, Dry Winter Has Left Firefighters in Wyoming Nervous

By Jake Bolster

Crews work in the forest at the site of the Spring Pine Fire near Bastrop State Park on Monday in Bastrop, Texas. Credit: Aaron E. Martinez/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images

This Year’s US Wildfires Have Already Set Records That Could Foreshadow a Smoky, Fiery Summer

By Jake Bolster

Interior Department in Turmoil

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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum walks into the West Wing of the White House on March 6 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

After Trump’s Interior Secretary Transferred Thousands of Staff to His Office, Chaos Followed, Former Workers Say

By Jake Bolster, Peter Aldhous

Signal Peak Energy’s Bull Mountains Mine is the only longwall coal mine in Montana. Aerial support provided by LightHawk.

New Lawsuit Aims to Halt Expansion of a Montana Coal Mine Blamed for Drying up the Land Above It

Story and photos by Jake Bolster

Cars drive over the Central Arizona Canal, which delivers Colorado River water to Central and Southern Arizona, on Dec. 19, 2025. Credit: Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Colorado River Negotiators Are Nearly Out of Time and Snowpack

By Jake Bolster, Wyatt Myskow

An oil rig drills near Salmon Creek in Pennsylvania's Allegheny National Forest in 2023, where more than 1,000 new oil and gas wells have been approved since October 2006. Credit: Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Despite Limited Interest in Drilling on Federal Land, Forest Service ‘Streamlines’ Oil and Gas Leasing Rules

By Jake Bolster

The Dollar Lake Fire broke out near Green River Lakes in the Wind River Mountains in August 2025. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News

A Record Wildfire Season Inspires Wyoming to Prepare for an Increasingly Fiery Future

By Jake Bolster

Xcel Energy’s coal-fired Comanche Generating Station in Pueblo, Colo. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Trump’s Push for Coal in Colorado Could Bring ‘Massive’ Harm to Public Lands and Rural Communities, Advocates Say

By Jake Bolster

Cattle graze on a ranch in Lander County, Nevada. Credit: Jim West/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Are Declining Stocking Rates Underexplored By Scientists?

By Jake Bolster

A grizzly boar walks through the meadow near White Creek in Yellowstone National Park. Credit: Jacob W. Frank/NPS

Could Rescinding The Roadless Rule Make It Harder To Delist Yellowstone Grizzlies?

By Jake Bolster

Early morning sunlight hits canyon walls on Lake Powell in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area on July 10, 2025 in Page, Arizona. Lake Powell, a critical Colorado River reservoir, is only at a third of its capacity as drought conditions in the Southwest worsen. Credit: Rebecca Noble via Getty Images

A River That Millions Rely on for Water Is on the Brink. A Deal to Save It Isn’t.

By Wyatt Myskow, Blanca Begert, Jake Bolster

Tim Teichert and Jason Thornock, third-generation ranchers in Cokeville, Wyo., stand in Teichert’s backyard, where Thornock’s property and Rocky Mountain Power transmission lines are seen in the distance.

Wyoming Ranchers Hoping Solar Can Lower Costs Say Utilities and the State Stand in Their Way

Story and photos by Jake Bolster

Visitors walk around the welcome center at Yosemite National Park in California on Oct. 30. Credit: Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

New US National Parks Fees For International Visitors Draw Scrutiny

By Jake Bolster

A lone wolf stands in Yellowstone National Park in September. Credit: Jacob W. Frank/NPS

Reintroduced Carnivores’ Impacts on Ecosystems Are Still Coming Into Focus

By Jake Bolster

Jeff Mow, the former superintendent of Glacier National Park, says privatizing national parks would limit access. “They would become national parks for those that can afford it, as opposed to all Americans.” Credit: Tami A. Heilemann/DOI

States and Nonprofits Are Helping National Parks Run During the Shutdown. Could Their Efforts Backfire?

By Jake Bolster

Western States Brace for a Uranium Boom as the Nation Looks to Recharge its Nuclear Power Industry

By Jake Bolster, Dylan Baddour, Wyatt Myskow

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