In the
prologue to his new book, Grizzly Confidential, author Kevin Grange discusses how he came to love North
America’s mighty bears.
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Mountain Bikers Push to Ride Through Wilderness
July 23, 2024 // OPINION: Op-ed
In June, Utah Sen. Mike Lee introduced a bill to allow mountain bikes in Wilderness areas. In his op-ed, Kevin Proescholdt writes that weakening Wilderness protections is a slippery slope.
Read MoreBear Tags As Revenue Generators: How Much Will Wyoming Make Bringing Back Griz Hunt?
July 26, 2023
One of the arguments states use in pushing for grizzly delisting is bringing back a trophy season to help them recoup money they've spent on bear recovery. Does the premise add up?
Read MoreMontana, In The Wake Of 'Yellowstone' and 'A River Runs Through It'
February 27, 2023
Thirty years after Norman Maclean's novella was brought to big screen, many are lamenting how it, and the TV melodrama 'Yellowstone' have fueled an inundation of western Montana
Read MoreYellowstone: Icon of Infamy or Convenient Scapegoat?
December 5, 2022
Montana writer Todd Burritt pens a scathing review of Megan Kate Nelson's portrayal of America's first national park in her book 'Saving Yellowstone'
Read MoreWhy 'Yellowstone' Rancher John Dutton Says 'Progress' Is Destroying The Wild Rural West
October 27, 2022
The only way Greater Yellowstone, America's most iconic wildlife ecosystem, stands a chance of being saved is if there's a game plan. Glaringly, none now exists
Read MoreIn The Bull's Eye: A Human Swarm Is Overwhelming The Yellowstone Region
July 20, 2021
Amid unprecedented development and outdoor recreation pressure, three experts say new strategies urgently needed to save America's most famous wildlife ecosystem
Read MoreDead Griz Along Yellowstone River Now Subject Of Poaching Investigation
June 30, 2021
The body of Grizzly 394, a 25-year-old male, attracted lots of human photo ops in Gardiner but now is a criminal case after someone removed its head and claws, officials say
Read MoreCovid Reflections: Before The World Shut Down Sarah DeOpsomer Got Sick
March 28, 2021
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 MoreNo, Human Development Does Not "Create" Wildlife Corridors
February 18, 2021
In op-ed, former superintendent of Canada's oldest national park calls out development scheme that has many parallels in Greater Yellowstone
Read MoreA Showdown Over Elk In Paradise?
July 30, 2020
New report illuminates clash between ranchers and disease-carrying elk that has huge implications for a famous Montana valley, migrating wildlife and a scenic corridor to Yellowstone
Read MorePalms On Buffalo Skull: With Maka Unci, We Are Never Alone
June 4, 2020
Two poems to usher in summer by Lois Red Elk (Dakota/Lakota) as we contemplate the wisdom of Taku Wakan
Read MoreOf God And Guns: How The Sagebrush Rebellion Turned Into A Hotbed Of Armed Modern Radicals
March 24, 2020
In this excerpt from Betsy Gaines Quammen's new book 'American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West,' the author explores how Utah became the center of anti-federalism
Read MoreIn Home Land
November 28, 2019
Long before the Absaroka-Beartooths became a federal wilderness and before Yellowstone was called 'wonderland,' they were home ground to the Crow. An essay by Shane Doyle
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