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'Tools to Save Our Home Planet'
April 4, 2025 // Book Review
A new book from Patagonia offers time-tested guidance on grassroots environmental activism. Here’s how it could benefit rural communities.
Read MoreCrazy Talk
March 27, 2025 // Book
In her new book on Crazy Mountain property battles, journalist Amy Gamerman explores the contrasting values of cattle, renewable energy and wilderness altering an ancient landscape.
Read MoreGrizzlies: Double Vision
February 25, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
With the Endangered Species Act comment period ending March 17, states and advocates are at odds over the future of grizzly bears.
Read MoreLegendary Yellowstone Wolf Dies After Fight with Rival Pack
January 13, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
Wildlife enthusiasts mourn the loss of
iconic Yellowstone matriarch, Wolf 907F.
The Year of the Wolves
January 3, 2025 // FEATURE: History
Thirty years ago this month, gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho. Today, the people who made it happen remember the mayhem and magic of one of the 20th century’s most controversial acts of ecosystem management.
Read MoreHunters Should Recognize Predators as Allies, not Competitors
October 18, 2024 // OPINION: Op-ed
If the whole of nature is good, writes Ted Williams in this
op-ed, then no part can be bad. Wolves and cougars can help curb wildlife diseases.
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 MoreAs Park County Booms, Locals Look to Retain Way of Life
March 8, 2024 // NEWS: Dispatch
Group launches new campaign in support of retaining growth policy in the face of efforts to repeal.
Read MoreMeet me in Fairyland
February 27, 2024 // OPINION: Essay
In his latest essay, MoJo contributor Todd Burritt examines nature, friendship and the enduring magic of
Yellowstone's backcountry.
After 20 Years of Lawsuits, Wolverine Listed as Threatened
December 7, 2023 // NEWS: Dispatch
Wolverines face numerous threats and only 300 exist in the Lower 48. Now that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed them under the Endangered Species Act, wolverine supporters are finally notching a win.
Read MoreRick Bass: Let The Yaak Be Another Momentus First In American Conservation
July 25, 2023
In this guest essay, the writer suggests that protecting old growth trees in the Kootenai could establish Montana as a national reference in confronting climate change
Read MoreCould Ecological Restoration Be The New Outdoor Recreation?
June 26, 2023
By giving back, rather than only taking, we can hold the line in saving wildness and give places new life. Dr. Richard Knight explains how in Writers on the Range
Read MoreIn Marley's Memory, He Chooses Survival
June 12, 2023
After suffering the devastating loss of his young daughter, Brad Orsted fell into bleak darkness—then the grizzly-inhabited wild country of Greater Yellowstone led him back into the light
Read MoreHow A Citizen Is Raising Awareness About Threat Of Grand Targhee Expansion
June 1, 2023
Howie Garber’s new book touches on the beauty of wildness
through a photographer’s lens