Wyoming’s
only cidery is on a mission to reduce human-wildlife conflict in Greater
Yellowstone. They say harvesting neighborhood apples is the key.
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Are Western Mountain Towns Ready For The Coming Flames?
March 21, 2023
![Can't happen here? The Bridger Foothills Fire was Bozeman's WUI wake-up call](/content/articles/ic_1679357907_400x300_true.jpg)
Rural sprawl is expanding the "wildland-urban interface." It is elevating the costs and perils of dealing with wildfire, and taxpayers are footing the bill. Part 2 in our ongoing series
Read MoreShould Enviro Groups Be Promoting More Human Recreation Use Of Still-Unspoiled Places?
January 10, 2023
![Two's company, but crowds can destroy the magic of wild places](/content/articles/ic_1673235424_400x300_true.jpg)
A longtime Montana conservationist calls out a group for promoting its 'Trail of the Week' at a time when natural areas are being overwhelmed at the expense of wildlife
Read MoreProminent Scientists Push Back Against Delisting Grizzly Bears: Op-Ed
January 13, 2022
![Grizzly 399 and one of her recent cubs](/content/articles/ic_1642096375_400x300_true.jpg)
When it comes to assessing biological recovery of grizzlies, who is better informed—people who study wildlife for a living or governors and legislators who dislike grizzlies and wolves?
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 MoreHow 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](/content/articles/ic_1630016652_400x300_true.jpg)
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 MoreCovid Reflections: Before The World Shut Down Sarah DeOpsomer Got Sick
March 28, 2021
![A string of covid masks in southwest Montana](/content/articles/ic_1616980154_400x300_true.jpg)
A year after the pandemic reached the interior West and brought the globe to a standstill, this Bozeman resident survived her own brush with the virus. Now she looks back
Read MoreCarrying The Banner For Wilderness
May 10, 2019
![The Palisades Wilderness Study Area](/content/articles/ic_1557498374_400x300_true.jpg)
Wyoming Wilderness Association turns 40 and four dynamic young women are reinvigorating the wilderness spirit when so much is on the line in Greater Yellowstone
Read MoreLee Metcalf: Remembering Montana's Firebrand
April 12, 2018
![Montana's Lee Metcalf stood tall with giants](/content/articles/ic_1523469629_400x300_true.jpg)
Mike Mansfield called Metcalf the state's greatest senator. In part 2 of Ed Kemmick's series, he also stood out as a no-apology conservationist
Read MoreThe Mighty Absaroka-Beartooth Is 40
April 9, 2018
![The Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness towering over Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1523231935_400x300_true.jpg)
In this two-part tribute, writer Ed Kemmick celebrates not only landmark wilderness in Greater Yellowstone but Lee Metcalf, the senator who made it happen
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