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Complements in Landscape Beauty: Art and Place in the Gros Ventre and Beyond
June 12, 2023
Returning to ‘Magic Ridge,’ Susan Marsh rediscovers the many faces of Nature’s splendor
Read MorePeople Beat Machines In Ability To Identify Wildlife
April 5, 2023
Although AI is frighteningly on the rise, study finds human eyesight and brains still hold advantage in recognizing subtle differences between pumas
Read MoreA Eulogy for P-22, Mountain Lion Who Changed the World
December 20, 2022
Conservationist Beth Pratt has been called a guardian angel to cougars trying to navigate southern California. Now she offers a perspective we in the boondocks ought to heed
Read MoreDon't Shred On Them: A Young Star Skier Speaks Up For Bighorns
November 11, 2021
Hadley Hammer, who learned to carve turns in the Tetons, says recreationists need to consider their growing impacts on sensitive wildlife. Her essay is one well worth reading
Read MoreHow A Mega-Mine And A 'Law Without A Brain' Were Defeated On Yellowstone's Back Door
August 26, 2021 // Activism, Mining, Yellowstone
A quarter century after a controversial gold mine was stopped thanks to presidential intervention, one of the green Davids who battled a powerful Canadian giant reflects on the longshot victory
Read MoreA Yellowstone Wolf-Watching Guide Wonders Aloud: What Century Are We Living In?
August 5, 2021
In this op-ed, Phil Knight says that given new laws in Montana and Idaho designed to decimate wolf numbers, it's time to restore federal protection for lobos
Read More30 By 30: Indigenous Communities Taking Lead In Addressing Climate Change, Protecting Wildlife
May 29, 2020
30 X 30: New report from the Wyss Foundation highlights First Nations leaders in our own back yard and around the world
Read MoreSocial Media: Harnessing The Digital Human Ecosystem To Protect Nature
August 7, 2019
MoJo summer intern Jordan Payne explores the multiple ways, for good and bad, that social media is affecting the way we interface with the wild outdoors
Read MoreLetting Go Of My Big Sister
June 22, 2018 // Family
Aging in America sucks, says Timothy Tate, but it doesn't have to be this way
Read MoreOf Young Men And Reform School
April 1, 2018
In this age of firearm proliferation, how do we stop tragedy and who decides if a troubled teen can be healed?
Read MoreChronic Wasting Disease Strikes Montana And Continues Its March On Yellowstone
November 16, 2017 // Chronic Wasting Disease, 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.
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