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The Search for Meaning. Hint: It’s not Something we Find

November 27, 2024 // OPINION: Column

Hope and reflection in the night sky
In times of despair, we have a choice. Let’s choose wisely this holiday season.
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The Halloween Forest

October 31, 2024 // OPINION: Essay

Spookiness in Yellowstone National Park
As the seasons change, life and death can blur illuminating the magic of nature in the pale moonlight of Halloween in Greater Yellowstone.
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The Arrival of Harriman’s Iconic Trumpeter Swans

November 22, 2023 // OPINION: Essay

Nearly extinct by the early 1900s, trumpeter swans have made an impressive comeback thanks to conservation efforts
By the early 1900’s trumpeter swans were nearly extinct, but concerted efforts have reinvigorated their numbers. Land around Harriman Ranch State Park has produced more cygnets than any other region in Idaho.
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Homing Instinct: Sandhills' Return A Marvel To Behold

April 18, 2023

A pair of sandhills return to their northern haunt
In Greater Yellowstone, America's cradle of wildlife conservation, writer Earle Layser offers this primer on sandhill cranes—another inspirational part of an ecosystem still intact
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Mystical American Rivers Can Run Through Your Living Room

December 1, 2022

"Dawn in Lavender," a painting by Dave Hall
Dave Hall, who has gained renown as "the painter of Greater Yellowstone rivers," is on a quest to protect the ecosystem one great riverscape at a time. You can join him
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Win Or Lose, Liz Cheney's Legacy In American History Will Be Non Sibi Sed Patriae

August 16, 2022

Not so long ago, prior to Jan. 6, 2021, Liz Cheney defended Trump
In this op-ed, Tom Sadler reflects on Wyoming's Republican primary and what Lincoln, Roosevelt, Ike and Reagan would make of Harriet Hageman
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How A Mega-Mine And A 'Law Without A Brain' Were Defeated On Yellowstone's Back Door

August 26, 2021 // Activism, Mining, Yellowstone

Henderson Mountain would have been sacrificed to mega gold mining
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
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Painting The Wild Sources Of Moving Water

June 16, 2021

Dawn on the Henrys Fork by Dave Hall
Dave Hall celebrates the lifeblood of Greater Yellowstone that reaches millions downstream
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Packed Trails After Covid Cabin Fever: Welcome To The Great Outdoors

June 3, 2020

Seeking solace
Scribe Dwight Harriman sought peace and quiet only to find hordes of people from Bozeman invading his wild back yard seeking the same thing
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Tom Brokaw Says More Than Ever We Need A National Leader

March 25, 2020

How would FDR address nation about coronavirus?
Legendary NBC newsman and longtime Greater Yellowstone resident reflects on values of 'The Greatest Generation'
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If The Challenges Facing Jackson Hole Can't Be Fixed, Then What's The Fate Of Greater Yellowstone?

October 14, 2019

Looking northward toward the Tetons
Will "collaboration as usual" save America's most iconic ecosystem or it is time for new leaders touting a braver new vision?
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