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The Usual Suspects: In Colorado, Wolves Blamed For Losses They Didn't Cause
March 13, 2023
Story Warren, in this personal essay for Writers on the Range, notes how an investigation shows 40 recent cattle deaths can't be pinned on lobos
Read MoreHow Did They Do It? Zooming in on the First Geological Map of Yellowstone
February 21, 2023
In 1871, a federal expedition led by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden conducted a detailed geological survey of the Yellowstone area leading to the first geological map and convincing Congress to establish Yellowstone as America's first national park.
Read MoreTwilight Of The Yellowstone Winterkeepers
December 24, 2022 // Yellowstone
With 50 years of solitude, Steven Fuller is a living legend in Yellowstone and an endangered 21st-century icon
Read MorePublic Land: It's What Sets The American West Apart
November 30, 2022
Writer Dave Marston discusses what he's thankful for as we move from one year to the next Answer: public lands and the wonder they inspire
Why 'Yellowstone' Rancher John Dutton Says 'Progress' Is Destroying The Wild Rural West
October 27, 2022
The only way Greater Yellowstone, America's most iconic wildlife ecosystem, stands a chance of being saved is if there's a game plan. Glaringly, none now exists
Read MoreYellowstone's North Loop Road May Re-Open—Partially For Now—After All
June 20, 2022
Park Supt. Cam Sholly and National Park Service Director Chuck Sams push to have guided tourism restored to northern parts of Yellowstone. South Loop opens Wednesday
Read MoreCowboying Up Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Be Vulnerable
March 28, 2022
Western men and women often evince the "I don't need nobody to care for me" look but all they really want is to feel connection. A new column about toughness by psychotherapist Timothy Tate
Read MoreIt Started With A Pilgrimage To Wonderland
March 23, 2022
In the first of a three-part series, "Reflections on a Changed and Changing Yellowstone," writer Earle F. Layser remembers his first visit to America's first national park 75 years ago compared to today
Read MoreWherever You Find Fun Outside, Crazy Creek Has Your Back Covered
March 23, 2022
Red Lodge, Montana-based maker of portable chairs, a favorite of active outdoorspeople in the Rockies, is also devoted to protecting the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Read MoreForest Service "Debacle" In Black Hills Must Not Be Repeated Elsewhere
September 22, 2021 // Forest Service, Logging
Former second in command of US Forest Service questions agency's accelerated push to thin forests and log big trees in response to fire, insects and climate change. Felling forests, Jim Furnish says, is not a strategy to save them
Read MoreWildness Ought To Make Us All The Wiser
August 16, 2021
We crave and need contact with nature but, as Joseph Scalia writes in this essay, technology and human numbers are shrinking back the feel of wild places. That's why, he says, we need to protect more of them
Read MoreThis Generation Will Be Judged By Whether It Let Salmon Runs Go Extinct
July 27, 2021
Chris Wood, the national leader of Trout Unlimited, writes in this guest essay that salmon and steelhead can recover if given a chance. But time is running out
Read MoreSo, You're Non-White And You Really Want To Work For The US Forest Service?
July 14, 2021
Melody Mobley, the first African-American woman forester in the storied land management agency, offers suggestions following a career punctuated by adversity
Read MoreLeaving Waniyetu
March 2, 2021
Lois Red Elk offers a pair of poems about the promise and struggle end of winter brings
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