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Myth-Busting and the Great Gray Wolf
January 26, 2025 // NEWS: Feature
As we look back on the 30 years since the wolf was reintroduced in Yellowstone, we examine what wolves are and what they aren’t.
Read MoreNonprofit Sues Montana DEQ Over Gallatin Mine Approval
August 13, 2024 // NEWS: In Short
The Gateway Conservation Alliance filed a lawsuit against Montana citing environmental
concerns over recent amendments to Opencut Mining Act.
White-tailed Deer Buck With CWD Confirmed Near Bozeman
December 14, 2022
As CWD spreads across the West, Wyoming still operates elk feedgrounds and states take aim at disease-fighting predators
Read MoreYellowstone Wolf 302 Latest Star In Rick McIntyre's Lobo Trifecta
September 30, 2021 // Wolves
It's not easy surviving as a wolf in America's oldest national park—and this doesn't even include the perils that loom for wolves from humans once they cross the northern border into Montana
Read More'Four Fifths A Grizzly' Is Chadwick's Reminder That Wildness Resides In Our DNA
June 16, 2021
Brot Coburn reviews a new summer book by Douglas Chadwick that makes the case for thinking across big landscapes and understanding what's inside them
Why CWD Striking Jackson Hole Elk Is A Big Deal
December 27, 2020
Is a Chronic Wasting Disease 'super-spreader' event possible in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem? Experts say Wyoming, federal agencies have created conditions ripe for disaster
Read MoreLiving In A Community Means Politicians Having The Courage To Take Media And Citizen Questions
October 26, 2019
Every elected leader faces a choice: tell the truth and do what's right for country and civility or deepen the divide
Read MorePutting Pendley In Charge Of BLM Reveals Trump's True Radical Agenda For The West?
August 19, 2019
Columnist Tim Crawford says if you worried about former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Pendley is more frightening
Read MoreBig Guns Want 230,000 Acres Of Gallatins Near Yellowstone Protected As Wilderness
May 14, 2019
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
Read MoreJohn Heyneman Returns To Home Range
April 1, 2019
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
Read MoreMan Who Killed Wolf Inside Grand Teton Pleads Guilty
February 6, 2019
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
Read MoreChronic Wasting Disease Strikes Montana And Continues Its March On Yellowstone
November 16, 2017 // Public Lands, Wildlife, Yellowstone
Part 3 in Mountain Journal's ongoing series on Chronic Wasting Disease. With ultra-deadly CWD now in Montana wildlife for first time, critics say public officials are demonstrating irresponsibility by having no coordinated plan for confronting the disease
Read MoreAmerica's National Elk Refuge: A ‘Miasmic Zone Of Life-Threatening Diseases'
October 17, 2017 // Public Lands, Science, Wildlife
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is known internationally for its wildlife. With the arrival of Chronic Wasting Disease looming, the epicenter of a deadly outbreak would be western Wyoming and the home to America's "national elk herd". Part 2 in Mountain Journal's series looking at the coming wildlife plague.
Read MoreThe Lords Of Yesterday Are Back And They Want America's Public Land
September 28, 2017 // Opinion, Public Lands
Barry Reiswig—a backcountry horseman, hunter, angler and former civil servant —pushes back against what he calls "the radical agenda" of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke
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