Despite 90 percent support from 200,000 public comments, new rule faces strong opposition from resource-extraction
advocates.
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BLM Public Lands Rule: Why is it Important in Greater Yellowstone?
June 6, 2024 // NEWS: Dispatch
![The Bureau of Land Management oversees some 245 million acres of public lands in the U.S.](/content/articles/ic_1717695883_400x300_true.jpg)
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Paradise Planned
April 19, 2024 // NEWS: In Short
![Park County is looking to preserve its rural beauty and way of life](/content/articles/ic_1713551401_400x300_true.jpg)
An April 16 commission vote
clarified the process for updating Park County's growth policy.
Read MoreA Remarkable Year
December 26, 2023 // OPINION: Essay
![The Teton range and the peaceful solitude of a closing year](/content/articles/ic_1703619517_400x300_true.jpg)
In her poignant essay, MoJo columnist Susan Marsh reminds us of the important things in life as she reflects on the past year: to be bold, to be gracious, and to remember that the more we give, the more we receive.
Read MoreA 'Greater Yellowstone National Park': Is It So Far-Fetched?
August 8, 2023
![A greater version of Yellowstone fit for the 21st century?](/content/articles/ic_1691537596_400x300_true.jpg)
To save America's most iconic wildlife ecosystem, two prominent conservationists say in this op-ed that today's epic challenges must be met with grander bolder thinking. If not this, then what?
Read MoreHow Greater Yellowstone Grizzlies Could Be Delisted And Remain Protected
July 18, 2023
![A grizzly mother with cubs in Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1689708387_400x300_true.jpg)
States are pushing hard to remove America's most famous grizzly population from federal protection. The primary reason is obvious. Why aren't we doing the same with bald eagles?
Read MoreIn Montana, Four Different Polls Say Citizens Seriously Unhappy About Sprawl
July 5, 2023
![Paradise Valley/Park County as interpreted by painter Robert Spannring](/content/articles/ic_1688528967_400x300_true.jpg)
North of Yellowstone, no-zoning signs fly like protest flags but residents of beautiful Park County are deeply concerned lack of planning is causing the loss of places they love
Read MoreHeadwaters' Report Highlights Downsides Of So-Called Green Lifestyle Economy
June 24, 2023
![New glampground along Yellowstone River in Paradise Valley, enabled by weak planning laws in Park County, Montana](/content/articles/ic_1687564178_400x300_true.jpg)
Environmentalists often condemn resource extraction, but is the 'natural amenity economy' built on industrial recreation, tourism and real estate sales better for wildlife?
Read MoreLooking Past The Cliches of 'Western Art'
June 18, 2023
![Bill Stockton's portrayal of a sunset](/content/articles/ic_1686990209_400x300_true.jpg)
In her new award-winning book 'Montana Modernists,' Michele Corriel declares that artists from the West are so much more than frontier portrayals of cowboys and Indians
Read MoreOn Yellowstone’s Doorstep, Conservationists Want To Buy Out A Gold Mine
May 19, 2023
![View from Crevice Mountain, site of the proposed Crevice gold mine just north of the border to Yellowstone National Park](/content/articles/ic_1684536930_400x300_true.jpg)
To halt 'major tragedy,' Greater Yellowstone Coalition must raise $6.25 million by October
Read MoreKissing The 'Quieter Side' Of The Tetons Goodbye?
February 27, 2023
![Sunset, amid moonrise, brings alpenglow to the west side of the Tetons above Teton Valley, Idaho](/content/articles/ic_1677512436_400x300_true.jpg)
Will Grand Targhee Resort expansion put Teton Valley, Idaho on course to become a doppelgänger of Big Sky? A county commissioner voices her concerns
Read MoreHow Did They Do It? Zooming in on the First Geological Map of Yellowstone
February 21, 2023
![Swans and geese in the Yellowstone River in Hayden Valley, named for 1871 expedition leader Ferdinand Vanderveer Hayden](/content/articles/ic_1676999010_400x300_true.jpg)
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 MoreIt's Now Do Or Die For The Great Salt Lake
February 20, 2023
![Will Utahns rise to save the Great Salt Lake?](/content/articles/ic_1676909491_400x300_true.jpg)
Will Utahns take action to rescue their famous lake or will it be sacrificed to a false notion of prosperity? Stephen Trimble weighs in for Writers on the Range
Read MoreHow Yellowstone's Grand Canyon Came To Be
January 24, 2023
![Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1674582900_400x300_true.jpg)
The history of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone began more than 600,000 years ago with a massive eruption
Read MoreWould New Recreation Bill Bring Negative Impacts to Wildlife and Sensitive Public Lands?
November 10, 2022
![Packing them in: Jenny Lake in the Tetons has become a symbol of crowding in national parks](/content/articles/ic_1668062361_400x300_true.jpg)
It's called the "America's Recreation Act of 2022." Retired Forest Service veteran and MoJo columnist Susan Marsh says building bigger parking lots no answer for crowding problems
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