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The Trickster Renders Us Invisible
October 10, 2021 // Poetry, Wildlife
![In Nature, coyote bats cleanup](/content/articles/ic_1633845834_400x300_true.jpg)
Lois Red Elk writes a poem about coyote that reminds how the essence of being is not material, but everything else
Read MoreScientists Say Gianforte's Anti-Wolf, Anti-Grizzly Policies In Montana Have No Scientific Basis
October 2, 2021 // Wildlife, Wolves, Yellowstone
![Wolves and grizzlies target of Montana's anti-predator laws](/content/articles/ic_1633189882_400x300_true.jpg)
Prominent group of wildlife professionals with 1,500 years of experience condemn Montana's new laws targeting wolves. Already pups from popular Yellowstone wolf pack have been killed
Read MoreNext Act: Let The Bugling (Of Bull Elk) Begin In Yellowstone
August 29, 2021 // Elk, Wildlife, Yellowstone Winterkeeper
![Bull elk in Yellowstone are readying for autumn jousting](/content/articles/ic_1630284488_400x300_true.jpg)
Autumn arrives sooner on the Yellowstone Plateau than most other places in the Lower 48. Winterkeeper and Mountain Journal columnist Steven Fuller chronicles the start of a glorious season of jousting
Read MoreNaturalist Says Outdoor Recreation Can Have Huge Impacts On Wildlife
March 20, 2019 // Outdoor Recreation, The New West, Wildlife
![Bighorn Sheep in the Dubois Badlands](/content/articles/ic_1553124045_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain bikers and hikers with dogs can bring huge spatial intrusions into wildlife habitat
Read MoreConservationists Sue To Halt Artificial Feeding At National Elk Refuge
March 18, 2019 // Chronic Wasting Disease, Ecosystem Protection, Wildlife
![Elk on a feed line in Jackson Hole](/content/articles/ic_1552939623_400x300_true.jpg)
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
Read MoreSome Call Her 'The Owl Whisperer'
March 18, 2019 // Art, Photography, Wildlife
![Ashleigh Scully](/content/articles/ic_1552871078_400x300_true.jpg)
Ashleigh Scully is a rising Millennial star in wildlife photography. Enjoy a Mountain Journal interview with the conservation-minded phenom
The Perils Of Going Along To Get Along
March 13, 2019 // Climate Change, Growth—Good, Bad & Ugly, Leadership, Outdoor Recreation, Politics, The New West, Wildlife
![A bison in Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1552458198_400x300_true.jpg)
What does it say about us when we have leaders who don't have the courage to act?
Read MoreThe Power Of Words: How We Use Language To Justify Our Consumption Of Nature
March 11, 2019 // Public Lands, Wildlife, Wyoming
![A wolf in Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1552320019_400x300_true.jpg)
MoJo columnist Susan Marsh waxes on how we 'harvest' living things to avoid admitting we're taking their lives
Read MorePublic Health Official: Chronic Wasting Disease Seems Bound To Infect People
March 6, 2019 // Chronic Wasting Disease, Hunting, Jackson Hole, Wildlife
![Thousands of wapiti at National Elk Refuge](/content/articles/ic_1551899749_400x300_true.jpg)
"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
Read MoreCan Greater Yellowstone’s Wildlife Survive Industrial Strength Recreation?
March 6, 2019 // development, Outdoor Recreation, The New West, Wildlife
![Photo courtesy NPS / Adams](/content/articles/ic_1551918475_400x300_true.jpg)
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
Read MoreBoom-time Frenzy: What Kind Of Prosperity Destroys The Foundation It Is Built Upon?
February 26, 2019 // Big Sky, Growth—Good, Bad & Ugly, Jackson Hole, Wildlife
![One day, the west side of the Tetons?](/content/articles/ic_1551215981_400x300_true.jpg)
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
Read MoreA Death Of Ethics: Is Hunting Destroying Itself?
December 12, 2018 // Hunting, Wildlife
![Coyote taken in Wyoming hunt](/content/articles/ic_1544653982_400x300_true.jpg)
From killing baboon families to staging predator-killing contests, hunters stand accused of violating the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. Now they’re being called out by their own.
Pondering Greater Yellowstone's More Crowded Future
September 4, 2018 // Ecosystem Protection, Leadership, Wildlife
![An eruption of masses at Old Faithful](/content/articles/ic_1536102711_400x300_true.jpg)
Major scientific conference, 'Tracking the Human Footprint,' opens Sept. 11 in Big Sky. It is final hurrah for Dan Wenk
Read MoreWildlife Managers Want National Call To Action In Fighting Chronic Wasting Disease
August 27, 2018 // Chronic Wasting Disease, Wildlife
![A Greater Yellowstone bull elk](/content/articles/ic_1535413474_400x300_true.jpg)
At TRCP media summit in Bozeman, Wyoming's wildlife chief Scott Talbott reminded state feedgrounds at odds with disease science
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