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Ryan Zinke Scores A Pyrrhic Victory In Yellowstone
June 14, 2018
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After ousting Dan Wenk over bison, Interior Secretary now must decide: will he stand behind his controversial National Park Service Director?
Read MoreThe American West's Uncivil War: Assessing Watt, Zinke, Future Generations
June 3, 2018
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A MoJo interview with Don Snow. Part 3: how we got here and where the environmental movement goes next
Read MoreBrandborg Worried Conservation Movement Has Lost Its Edge
April 17, 2018
![Montana's Crazy Mountains](/content/articles/ic_1523988589_400x300_true.jpg)
Dead at 93, former head of The Wilderness Society said environmental groups have forgotten how to fight the good fight
Read MoreWyoming’s Oracle of Cyberspace Searched For A Better Community
April 16, 2018
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John Perry Barlow recognized the possibility of virtual reality but his reset button was the natural world
Read MoreWeakening Wilderness Act Is Antithetical To Principle Of Landmark Law
April 10, 2018
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Writer Michael Dax says efforts by hardcore recreation user groups to undermine wilderness protection are self-serving and short-sighted
Read MoreFor Yellowstone And America, Climate Change Brings Our Moment Of Truth
March 20, 2018
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem sits at the epicenter of a huge disruption from rising temperatures. Skiing will be the first of many major casualties
Read MoreThe Big Empty Is Anything But
February 27, 2018
![Badlands, western Nevada](/content/articles/ic_1519757478_400x300_true.jpg)
Jackson Frishman is connected to the giants of American mountaineering. He also knows the pain and euphoria of the West
Read MoreThe Essential Role Of Eco-Capitalism In Saving The Best That Remains
January 29, 2018 // Conservation, Private Lands, The New West
![Ted Turner Photo by Todd Wilkinson](/content/articles/ic_1517267261_400x300_true.jpg)
Greater Yellowstone's rich tapestry will be won—or lost—based on what businesspeople do next
Read MoreTrading Away Wildness For Oil And Tax Breaks
December 26, 2017 // Opinion, Public Lands
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A respected Wyoming conservationist schools a U.S. senator after he votes to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to energy development
Read MoreThe Undeniable Value of Wolves, Bears, Lions And Coyotes In Battling Disease
December 11, 2017
![Photo courtesy NPS / Jacob W. Frank](/content/articles/ic_1513044052_400x300_true.jpg)
Part 4 in Mountain Journal's series on Chronic Wasting Disease and the threat it poses to America's wildest ecosystem. By killing predators, are states that still cling to Little Red Riding Hood shooting themselves in the foot?
Read MoreEveryone Has An Opinion About Government But Many Citizens Would Flunk Civics
December 11, 2017
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In this provocative column by Susan Marsh, she wonders aloud: If citizens are so ignorant about lots of things, are we expecting too much in asking them to know and care about public lands, wildlife and nature?
Read MoreMaking Teddy Roosevelt Mad Not Proud: Trump and Zinke Score A Witless Triumph In Utah
December 5, 2017
![Zinke photo courtesy Gage Skidmore/flickr. Trump photo courtesy Michael Vadon/Flickr](/content/articles/ic_1512503833_400x300_true.jpg)
The U.S. President And His Interior Secretary Demonstrate A Clueless Understanding Of Economics Driving The New West.
Read MoreGreater Yellowstone's Coming Plague
October 8, 2017 // Chronic Wasting Disease, Public Lands, Science, Wildlife
![Thomas Mangelsen's photograph "Winter Herd" portraying thousands of elk on the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming](/content/articles/ic_1507513504_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Journal's special multi-part series on Chronic Wasting Disease and the potential dangers it poses to Greater Yellowstone's unparalleled wildlife and the specter of risk to human health. Part 1: Greater Yellowstone's Coming Plague
Read MoreEven In Paradise, Everyone Needs To Heal Something, Especially The Seemingly Invincible
August 23, 2017 // Community, Community Change
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Confronting the myth of perfection, columnist Timothy Tate, a practicing psychotherapist in Bozeman, writes about "distress" accompanying radical changes in mountain communities
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