When it comes to safeguarding bears, scientists say wilderness-caliber lands, free of riders, are important to bruin persistence

Andrew Dobson discusses the consequences of artificially feeding elk in Wyoming, the positive role of predators in confronting disease and worries related to CWD

Two poems by Lois Red Elk remind that neither we, nor animals, are "others" in the natural world

Mountain Pursuit, founded by former journalist and fifth-generation Wyomingite Rob Shaul, expresses outrage over, among other things, the brutal treatment of coyotes and decline of fair chase in hunting

How can some western communities and wildlands save their essence during booms, how do others prevent themselves from blowing away? A gathering in Bozeman will address these poles of the 'New West'

Founder of Patagonia joins former U.S. Interior Secretary and dozens of eminent scientists who say capital "W" essential to safeguarding wildlife in core of Greater Yellowstone

Mountain Journal interviews researcher Rebecca Watters on efforts to save wolverines halfway around the world

As Lance Olsen notes, the renewable energy revolution is just beginning but scaling it also requires massive earthmoving

Wyoming Wilderness Association turns 40 and four dynamic young women are reinvigorating the wilderness spirit when so much is on the line in Greater Yellowstone

Award-winning writer Susan Marsh, a former Forest Service naturalist and wildlands manager, expresses worry that is on the minds of many in her famous valley

MoJo columnist Lance Olsen says the world's youth have ample reasons to question the selfishness of their elders

Want more journalism devoted to defending America's crown jewel ecosystem? Support "Give Big" to MoJo and all of the non-profits doing good work at the intersection of people and nature

An old wrangler looks back on his life as he nears the end of the trail.  Bob Staffanson, who founded The Billings Symphony and later became known as "the Cowboy Conductor" in New England and Europe, grew up herding cattle in Montana. It was the unshakable imprint of the West that brought him home. Staffanson reflects on the current president, the resilience of Western women, and the definition of a real cowboy.

Montana's acclaimed poet of the prairie beholds the patterns of nature and finds solace in the power of turtle

Gallatin County, Montana is one of the fastest-growing non-urban counties in America but is there a plan to deal with the deluge?

MoJo columnist Timothy Tate, a psychotherapist and consultant to The North Face adventure team, examines why some court risk and others get exhilaration by watching others take chances

Despite major environmental challenges, Brian Yablonski writes in this op-ed that there are many reasons to reject doom and gloom—and embrace hope

Seventy years after A Sand County Almanac was published, what would 'the godfather of modern ecological thinking' say about battles over predators, recreation and environmental justice?

As hip mountain towns struggle to make a place for worker bees, Lance Olsen says our tax code, the timber industry and developers aren't focused on real solutions

Like Search and Rescue for those lost in the woods, people facing addiction or mental illness can also require the assistance of people who care.  Psychotherapist Timothy Tate explores the deep impact of intervention.

First grizzly-human encounter reminds us of value of bear spray and the long odds of getting attacked

Annual wapiti survey: apart from wolves and other wildlife meat eaters, a formidable predator is winter

Renowned Jackson Hole photographer inspires masses, including famous friends, to rally in defense of nature. His work now featured in national museum tour

Wyoming rancher Heyneman, who grew up near Fishtail, Montana, has a personal family connection to the legendary Padlock Ranch and once left a big impression on Wallace Stegner

With a grand vision for rewilding native species in eastern Montana, APR is spurring a huge debate over bison, private property rights, federalism and the survival of rural communities 

Mountain bikers and hikers with dogs can bring huge spatial intrusions into wildlife habitat

Ag lands play a critical role in maintaining the integrity of Montana's fastest-growing valley. This is the first piece in an ongoing series touting the important role private land protection groups play in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem—and beyond

With Chronic Wasting Disease likely already on refuge, action is claimed as necessary to prevent disastrous disease outbreak amongst America's most famous elk herd

Getting old need not be a season of dread. As Timothy Tate says, it can be an opportunity to embrace who we are

Lance Olsen boils down a familiar old battle to its basics as sabers rattle among coal interests in Wyoming and Montana

What does it say about us when we have leaders who don't have the courage to act?

MoJo columnist Susan Marsh waxes on how we 'harvest' living things to avoid admitting we're taking their lives

"CWD is gonna be a helluva wildlife problem even if disease doesn't reach livestock and humans," Osterholm says. He criticizes Wyoming for continuing to operate controversial elk feedgrounds

A contrast between two different organizations—one devoted to tackling real issues shaping our region, the other running away from hard discussions about growing impacts of industrial-strength recreation

Never mind Greater Yellowstone's super volcano, there's already an epic explosion occurring in some corners of the ecosystem. And it's called growth

For Anna Vanuga, leaving Wyoming for Montana unearthed a new life through art. Her story will touch your heart

First-ever Greater Yellowstone Fellowship Offers $3500 to creatively explore America's most iconic ecosystem

Cursed cars: a Millennial tourist, among the record-breaking masses, admits to being profoundly disappointed by his front country experience in America's first national park

By courting the images that come to us during sleep and drawing upon their messages, our dreams within can help us achieve more meaningful, peaceful outer lives

With a sense of urgency, feisty spirit and an incredible eye, this talented witness turns wild trout and salmon into art muses for conservation

A MoJo Special Report: Can the wild Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem survive the coming hurricane of human population growth? As part of Mountain Journal's ongoing investigative series, "Greater Yellowstone: The Big Picture," Todd Wilkinson examines significant issues shaping the future of America's most iconic wildland ecosystem. This story focuses on the accelerating impacts of human development.

MoJo columnist Rebecca Watters returns from a research mission to Mongolia where she tracked lobos, leopards and wolverines

By not confronting the causes of climate change, we're setting ourselves up for huge economic and ecological impacts. A comprehensive analysis by Lance Olsen on this and the Green New Deal

Erika Ross gives a speech that lays out the magnitude of violence committed against women in Indian Country. Why has it taken so long to address this grave injustice?

With climate change, public land issues and other important matters before House Resources Committee, will lawmakers swear to God that they'll be seeking the truth?

Is fined $5000, receives probation and prohibited from killing wolves for a year. Also calls attention to larger issue of sport hunts allowed near national park borders

Exploring the visual boundaries of how we think about the wild West. Check in every day for a new image.

From sport hunting iconic species to giving local communities ownership over wildlife, Namibia may do things that drive some American conservationists crazy, but it has slowed and reversed the decimation of wildlife

Life after government: Mike Gurnett celebrates wildlife in metal after being a spokesman for the natural world         

Flowing forth from the streams of our unconsciousness are insights sometimes more profound and visions more real than what we know when our eyes are open

Wisdom of Youth: Teenager Florence Doyle brings powerful remembrance from Indian Country at 2019 Women's March

MoJo columnist Susan Marsh reflects on the value of reflection. We all need to stop and pause

Giving Back To Greater Yellowstone Can Also Mean Not Taking The Things That Sustain It

Lois Red Elk Tells Different Tales From "Little Red Riding Hood"

Timothy Tate: Just as the backcountry brings perils, so, too, the mental space filled with charged emotions at the start of a new year. 

Former Chicago businessman moved to Montana to hunt big game and enjoyed fame as a hater of lobos

When it comes to true recovery for America's most famous bruins, the focus is not on numbers but biological connectivity

At the Anderson Ranch, "learning/adventure vacations" bring people together through fun, wildlife and stories shared around a campfire

But MoJo columnist Steve Primm, a volunteer firefighter, says it's more important to heed the burning facts

Whitman College student Luke Ratliff visits with Mark Haggerty about the deepening urban-rural divide

Tim Crawford says healthy landscapes are the underpinning of good living in Bozeman and all of the rural West

A student tries to make sense of Ted Turner's attempt to restore wildness and ponders the role of bison and beaver as keystone species

Before the Bakken made fortunes and a mess of the landscape, Jackson Hole naturalist Susan Marsh discovered a different kind of majesty

Scientists have long supposed grizzly populations between ecosystems might link up. David Stalling wonders when it will happen.

Dreaded deadly pathogen now literally among Jackson Hole's famous elk herds as thousands of wapiti arrive in valley for winter

In the ancient elder tradition, Lois Red Elk tells stories of her grandmother.  Her poems lead us to a deeper reflection on the missing and departed women in Indian Country.

In a harrowing nature video that went viral, there's an unethical story behind the narrative

Susan Marsh says Greater Yellowstone is a fount of wild American rivers—and trails— yet many citizens treat them only with greed or indifference

Montana's democratic governor, who could contend for The White House, addresses the recent election and issues facing the rural West

Still, the Democratic National Committee remains clueless in dealing with rural West and heartland

In their Paradise Valley photo op, Steve Daines and Senate hopeful Matt Rosendale appear to have trouble knowing the difference between private and public tracts

When we talk of justice, Timothy Tate the psychotherapist wonders about the message sent to American daughters

New report says fossil fuel interests dominate hearings on issues affecting American West

MoJo columnist Tim Crawford says true leaders say what we need to know, even if we don't want to hear it. And we need to elect them.

MoJo's resident first responder Steve Primm didn't find the phantom victim; he stared into a problem created by growth

Should they be encouraged to leave in order to make room for the next generation of worker bees?

Tim Crawford says the fire and police departments need new digs because of the development boom, but many citizens are already feeling overtaxed

Mountain Journal collaborates with students from Whitman College's "Semester in the West" who share their thoughts about issues shaping an iconic region

Noah Dunn contrasts public Yellowstone with a private ranch next door

Sportsman and former Marine David Stalling says grizzlies have been—and can be—managed without killing them for sport

Star in Bob Legasa's video about bear spray becomes hero in repelling grizzly attack

Bozeman artist Steve Osman is donating proceeds from the sale of works to support Mountain Journal's investigative reporting fund

But will conservationists, business community also support limits on other forms of 21st-century resource exploitation to protect ecosystem?

Kevin van Tighem, who once served as superintendent in Canada's equivalent of Yellowstone, has harsh words for the deteriorating tenor of social media

Lee Nellis, a longtime planning guru in Greater Yellowstone, responds to Lori Ryker's call for a new blueprint in thinking about development

Lois Red Elk: the power of feminine energy isn't new; it's ancient and there in the sky

For naturalist Susan Marsh, fall is the season of visual warmth, and reflection on fallibility

Timothy Tate asks: is it possible for mountain towns to grow without losing their soul?

Hunting guide's death is tragic and circumstances surrounding it raise many questions. A look at the nature of human-bear incidents

In Jackson Hole, a half-minute vignette of rutting bulls with the Tetons rising behind

In MoJo's new series "Beyond the National Parks," we explore Greater Yellowstone's longest national forest

George Wuerthner says one of Greater Yellowstone's most important wildlife areas is unprotected

The unprecedented assemblage of Bierstadt masterpieces is powerful window into changing West. Hurry, it runs through Sept. 30

Major scientific conference, 'Tracking the Human Footprint,' opens Sept. 11 in Big Sky. It is final hurrah for Dan Wenk

Heh'aka brings healing and emotional protection in two poems by Lois Red Elk

Former publisher of High Country News helped make it 'a voice for the American West'

If growth produces "winners," then who and what are the "losers"?

Wildness in Greater Yellowstone will survive only if people reject the destructive development patterns of everywhere else

At TRCP media summit in Bozeman, Wyoming's wildlife chief Scott Talbott reminded state feedgrounds at odds with disease science

Timothy Tate, MoJo columnist and mental health professional, identifies the top five reasons why people seek his help

Jackson Hole and other mountain towns are losing their soul by being transformed into amusement parks. The question is why?

New "vital signs" report says region's famous wildlife faring well, for now, but climate change and human development loom ominously

Steven Fuller composes a visual rhapsody for Yellowstone bison

In Montana's Centennial Valley, the Taft-Nicholson Center opens minds for life by immersing students in the wild unknown

Mountain Time Arts celebrates the West's most precious lifeblood and highlights the threats to its persistence

Great grandson of 'the old lion' calls moderate Republicans 'an endangered species'

Beyond the hipster havens of Bozeman and Jackson Hole, the pain of small towns is real. MoJo's new columnist Alexis Bonogofsky will be sharing their struggles

During a hike in the mountains, what started with a few caws led to the discovery of a stealthily-observant wolf

After allegedly taunting a bison in Yellowstone and causing trouble in three parks, Oregon man arrested

Grand Teton National Park, as we know it today, might not exist were it nor for truth-demanding media battling against real fake news

Lovers of America's first national park invited to free NatGeo event Sunday night Aug. 5 at Emerson in Bozeman

The Forest Service's first African-American woman forester reflects on sexual assault, justice denied, and racism in one of the country’s premier land management agencies

As Wyoming moves toward its first trophy hunt of grizzlies in 44 years, it's a question that looms large. Is its "test" enough?

More from "A Life in Wonderland": Yellowstone "winterkeeper" Steven Fuller shares an almanac of summer images from the center of America's oldest national park

Jackson Hole conservationist plans to hunt a bear with his camera, not a gun

Naturalist Susan Marsh, a maven of the high country, helps us find an answer in the 'wildflower forest'

Lois Red Elk offers two poems reminding that dreams of better lives are planted in the young

MoJo intern Sean Cummings went to a high school where digital trappings were forbidden, by design 

In Bozeman, some philanthropists are helping others improve their mental health by buying them sessions of therapy

A Predator Tale

In a Mountain Journal exclusive, Cameron Sholly talks Dan Wenk, Ryan Zinke's controversial moves and taking the helm of America's oldest national park

Steve Primm in part 2 of his MoJo series asks, 'Are you really ready to explore bear country?'

Meet the Cody museum dubbed 'the Smithsonian of the West'

Meet Sean Cummings Who Will Be Telling Stories Of People And Places In Greater Yellowstone

In three parts, MoJo columnist Steve Primm reflects on lessons from a hiker's killing of a bear in Wyoming's Wind River Mountains

Grand Teton park superintendent rumored to be top pick. Would be first Hispanic-American to oversee agency

Conservationist Dr. Franz Camenzind says "there's a push to end American wilderness as we know it"

Lance Olsen says the movement of protecting ecosystems needs to change its thinking if it wants to save them

After the guests depart, Susan Marsh savors a wild Snake and charismatic megafauna

From the Great Basin, Jackson Frishman ponders a West when water runs out

Ranking minority member of House Natural Resources Committee wants Interior Secretary to reveal why he is forcing Yellowstone superintendent out

Aging in America sucks, says Timothy Tate, but it doesn't have to be this way

Ranger Todd Johnson offers an introduction to this national recreation area east of Greater Yellowstone

One glimpse at ecosystem death by 10,000 scratches

John Freemuth offers an overview of the politics affecting one of the most charismatic avians in the American West

Ecologist Lance Craighead digs into 13,000 years of natural history and ponders what climate change means for Greater Yellowstone

After ousting Dan Wenk over bison, Interior Secretary now must decide: will he stand behind his controversial National Park Service Director?

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announces replacement for Dan Wenk

Steve Fuller, winterkeeper of America's oldest national park, takes note of Yellowstone's most dramatic season

Lance Olsen lays out the undeniable scientific evidence that elected officials cannot ignore

As visitation numbers continue to rise in America's oldest national park, what is impact on visitor experience and resources? And why is talking about it considered taboo?

Despite Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk’s desire to end his 42-year-career in America’s first national park, Ryan Zinke’s Interior Department demands he leave

Psychotherapist Timothy Tate heads to the Bucking Horse Sale in Miles City and ruminates on his first Montana home

In America's first national park, wapiti mothers are protective of their calves, no matter how docile they look

What does making space for bears and wolves on the landscape say about us?

From her home on the prairie, poet Lois Red Elk debuts two new tributes to coyote

A MoJo interview with Don Snow. Part 3: how we got here and where the environmental movement goes next

After four decades in uniform, Dan Wenk riffs on what he loves about America's first national park

Former national director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service warns that conservation must evolve, not be stuck in its white past

In part two of MoJo's interview with Don Snow, he talks about living in the age of kakistrocracy.  Is it the death knell of public lands?

Yet only a certain caliber of landscapes support the wild life found in Greater Yellowstone and few other places on earth. How do we safeguard it?

A MoJo interview with Don Snow about his native West. Part 1: seeing the region whole

After angering millions of Americans for his brazen anti-environmental agenda, can the Interior Secretary win back the trust of citizens?

For Julie Anderson, horses bring a grounding perspective in life in the wild Gallatins north of Yellowstone. Enjoy Louise Johns' new column and Western women and equines

Whether one favors hunting of Greater Yellowstone grizzly bears or not, this is the stark reality of what sport hunting means

Yale student Anna Reside ponders the future Millennials and GenZers will call their own

Headwaters Economics calls attention to alarming rate of disappearing open space around Bozeman. What does it mean for the wild Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem?

The Conservative commentator's remarkable prescience in describing Bobos' quest to dwell in paradise

After losing her elder to dementia, this client of Timothy Tate finds relief in dreams and fire

Yellowstone winterkeeper Steven Fuller has a knack for capturing the extraordinary, like this coyote scavenging a fallen bison

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's latest controversial action could claim Yellowstone superintendent as a casualty

Photojournalist Louise Johns explores the special bond between ride and rider that defines our region

For college student Franklin Eccher, saving Yellowstone for future generations demands raising awareness among those who believe public lands are irrelevant

Renn Meuwissen debuts a new column on exploring the delights of responsible trail running in the northern Rockies

Poet Lois Red Elk writes about avian messengers

Idahoan tossed off trail at Old Faithful area by buffalo. First incident of 2018

With Give Big, every act of generosity counts. A 24-hour blitz to benefit every corner of the non-profit community in Greater Bozeman. 

Meghan Gupta, an undergrad at Yale, sends a message to herself in middle age

Has Steven Fuller's life in the American bush left him bosebevokked?

Meet here: Mountain Journal may be idealistic but we still believe your voice matters

Susan Marsh asks: how much of nature registers if we are zooming through it?

Tim Crawford wonders how much empathy the new Bozeman has for those sent packing

Bozeman psychotherapist Timothy Tate helps a client work through the pain of watching her matriarch's memory fade

Dead at 93, former head of The Wilderness Society said environmental groups have forgotten how to fight the good fight

In this op-ed, natural resource advocate Katie Christiansen points out how, time and again, the Interior Secretary gives conservation short-shrift

Park Superintendent Dan Wenk talks about how his rangers loathe having to destroy bison to appease the Montana Department of Livestock

Writer Michael Dax says efforts by hardcore recreation user groups to undermine wilderness protection are self-serving and short-sighted

Mike Mansfield called Metcalf the state's greatest senator. In part 2 of Ed Kemmick's series, he also stood out as a no-apology conservationist

Park Superintendent Dan Wenk says the recovery of buffalo in America's oldest national park represents one of the greatest wildlife conservation success stories in U.S. history

Martin Murie answered the question. The late son of Olaus and Mardy Murie penned this piece only a few months before he died in 2012.

In this two-part tribute, writer Ed Kemmick celebrates not only landmark wilderness in Greater Yellowstone but Lee Metcalf, the senator who made it happen

Yellowstone superintendent Dan Wenk notes that slaughter of bison is really a battle over public land grass with livestock industry

Everybody wants to use the resources of Greater Yellowstone. But how are such uses benefitting wildlife and wild places that make our region world-renowned?

Goat rancher Alexis Bonogofsky pens a letter to Montana's secretary of state 'congratulating' him for his position on coal

Yellowstone Superintendent says science proves park buffalo are not the menaces Montana portrays them to be

MoJo columnist Todd Johnson, a combat veteran-turned-Park-Service ranger, salutes the stewards of public lands

For Lois Red Elk and other prairie dwellers, springtime means 'Take joy, the world is made anew'

Although superbloom isn't likely this year in the Mojave, our man in the Great Basin offers this report

In this age of firearm proliferation, how do we stop tragedy and who decides if a troubled teen can be healed?

What her story and that of others tells us about the impacts of recreation on sensitive species

Another tour de force piece from Susan Marsh on a once proud federal public land agency

The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem sits at the epicenter of a huge disruption from rising temperatures. Skiing will be the first of many major casualties

For 365 days, the Jackson Hole artist painted one new watercolor every day. This is what she learned

MoJo columnist T. H. Crawford, lifelong hunter and African safarian, shares thoughts on Trump Administration's International Wildlife Conservation Council

A winterkeeper explores his relationship with America's oldest national park via snowmobile

After acts of civil disobedience, arrests and release of animals from quarantine, the national park's top manager shares his thoughts

Gary Wolfe is a hunter, biologist and formerly an outfitter, head of Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Montana fish and wildlife commissioner

What if there were no rules governing human behavior in America's oldest national park? What if visitors could do whatever they liked?

Susan Marsh says Forest Service created ripe conditions for backlash

Todd Johnson debuts a new MoJo column called "Protecting the Home Land"

Celebrated American stone carver Steve Kestrel talks respect for all species, art as environmental statement and meeting Georgia O'Keeffe

Wisdom from the legendary former resident of Paradise Valley

For psychotherapist Timothy Tate, the minister's son, dealing with death requires making peace with oneself  

Wildlife movement in Greater Yellowstone is extraordinary but every day with busy highways it's becoming extraordinarily more tenuous. A prominent member of the scientific Craighead family weighs in.

Jackson Frishman is connected to the giants of American mountaineering. He also knows the pain and euphoria of the West

Everyone dreams. Lois Red Elk writes about how a special dream society carries forth visions to which an entire community belongs

Lance Olsen says politicians are peddling fairy tales to the gullible while greenhouse gases pose real peril

Steven Fuller savors stretches of snowbound winters as they always used to be

Whether these charismatic animals persist first requires an honest reflection on our own biases

The ground beneath Yellowstone continues to be aswarm with earthquakes. Learn why.

University professor David Parker assesses the prospects of Tester, Gianforte and where flyover states are headed

Libby Crews Wood calls upon U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney to set politics aside and embrace common sense

A prominent economist explains the value of public land for 21st-century America

Psychotherapist Timothy Tate: It's tough work fighting to save the communities we love and finding ways to avert the trail of despair

Still, Trump Administration wants to zero out funding for NPR, PBS, arts and humanities

Few Americans may know of the National Environmental Policy Act but it affects their lives every day

Sue Cedarholm paints a picture that speaks to both nostalgia and concern about Snow King

A foundational relationship in a woman’s life, its impacts lasting a lifetime

Greater Yellowstone's rich tapestry will be won—or lost—based on what businesspeople do next

Poet Lois Red Elk serves as translator on a road trip and pays homage to Ella Cara Deloria 

As attacks on wilderness and environmental laws rage, many citizens wonder why some prominent conservation groups seem to be missing in action?

MoJo columnist Lori Ryker highlights organic architecture that celebrates place by blending into it

For Yellowstone winterkeeper Steven Fuller,  special words describe the park's frozen world

Teton County, Wyo. Commissioner Mark Newcomb examines the cost—and dividends— of protecting a wild American ecosystem

Dewey Vanderhoff recounts a wild memorable evening involving a soon-to-be-famous author, roughnecks, cowboys and a male donkey in Meeteetse.

Wyoming naturalist Susan Marsh says it's high time that society had an adult conversation about the real impacts of fur trapping

Yellowstone's legendary "winter keeper" Steven Fuller takes readers on an intimate exploration of the world's first national park. Every few days he serves up a new dispatch here

After nearly 50 years of solitude, Steven Fuller is a living legend in Yellowstone and an endangered 21st-century icon

More than 10,000 Yellowstone bison have been killed based on a faulty premise. Like the worry over Chronic Wasting Disease, this controversy has connections to Wyoming's feedgrounds

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?

Forty years ago, Steven Fuller wrote a story for National Geographic on the park's cold extreme isolation. Now he takes a look back

In speech at MSU, Yellowstone Park Supt. Dan Wenk issues a challenge saying time to save the ecosystem is now 

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