Conservation
organizations celebrated an amendment to the state budget authorizing land managers to sell the Kelly Parcel to the National Park Service for $100
million. Some bills are more worrisome.
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Wyoming Legislative Session Brings Conservation ‘Wins and Losses’
March 21, 2024 // NEWS: Dispatch
![The 640-acre Kelly Parcel was slated for public auction before the action was postponed in December amid public outcry](/content/articles/ic_1711044039_400x300_true.jpg)
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The Gray Wolf and a Dogged Pursuit
March 4, 2024 // NEWS: Dispatch
![Last month, the Western Environmental Law Center filed an intent to sue after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declined to relist wolves as endangered](/content/articles/ic_1709596431_400x300_true.jpg)
A
coalition of Western environmentalists seeks renewed endangered species status
for western gray wolves.
Montana Files Intent to Sue Over Listing Wolverines Under ESA
January 29, 2024 // NEWS: Dispatch
![Wolverines were listed as "threatened" last November. Now, Montana plans to sue.](/content/articles/ic_1706571742_400x300_true.jpg)
The 15-page letter of intent to sue US Fish
and Wildlife Service comes on heels of November 2023 decision to list wolverines
as ‘threatened.’
The World Loses Wildlife Art's Greatest Champion
July 6, 2023
![Bill Kerr, who helped create a global destination for wildlife art in Jackson Hole](/content/articles/ic_1688674272_400x300_true.jpg)
Bill Kerr passes at 85. In Jackson Hole, his vision led to creation of the National Museum of Wildlife Art, a shrine for those globally who value connections between art and nature
Read MoreWhy 'Yellowstone' The TV Show Ain't The Real Montana (Or Wyoming, Or The West)
May 31, 2023
![Rowland's grandparents' place, the Arbuckle Ranch near Ekalaka, Montana](/content/articles/ic_1684640922_400x300_true.jpg)
Montana author Russell Rowland talks about divides shaking the West to its core. They go beyond rural-urban, newcomer-old timer, mountain-prairie and prosperity vs. despair
Read MoreFamous Jackson Hole Grizzly 399 Wows Again, But Now What?
May 18, 2023
![Model of Motherhood: 399 and her new cub out of hibernation](/content/articles/ic_1684459521_400x300_true.jpg)
Emerging with her 18th cub as part of a historic legendary life, 399 is 27, long in the tooth and still transforming our perceptions of grizzlies. Now it's our turn to be on best behavior
Read MoreThree Dead Griz Raise More Doubts About States' Ability To Manage Bruins
May 11, 2023
![A Yellowstone-area mother grizzly and two cubs](/content/articles/ic_1683782750_400x300_true.jpg)
In op-ed, wildlife advocate Doug Peacock says Idaho incident points to serious flaws with alleged commitment to bear recovery. Save the Yellowstone Grizzly plans lawsuit
Read MoreMountain Journal Adds Managing Editor To Expand Its Impact
September 23, 2022
![MoJo's new ME Joe O'Connor](/content/articles/ic_1665416969_400x300_true.jpg)
Joseph T. O'Connor, multimedia veteran in covering the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, joins MoJo team as part of series of big operational moves
Read MoreWhen Yellowstone Wildlife Injures Humans, We Need To Keep Own Behavior In Check
June 1, 2022
![A park visitor stands perilously close to a bison in Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1654115106_400x300_true.jpg)
In the wake of a bison goring, maybe it's time to reflect again on risk, wildness and how we comport ourselves in responding to tragedy
Read MoreGrizzlies Around Yellowstone Are Entering A Big Squeeze
May 16, 2022
![Grizzly 399 and four cubs, with whom she recently parted company](/content/articles/ic_1652730892_400x300_true.jpg)
Past research shows bears are sensitive to small amounts of habitat intrusion by recreation and development. But what's the impact now as both of those go boom?
Read MoreWhat Is Wilderness Without Its Wolves?
January 9, 2022
![Does anything more signify wilderness than a wolf howl?](/content/articles/ic_1641759429_400x300_true.jpg)
The ecological importance of wolves is irrefutable. In this op-ed, MoJo columnist Franz Camenzind asks why are wolves facing eradication campaigns in federal Wilderness where the health of native species takes priority?
Read MoreMontana Defiantly Puts Yellowstone Wolves In Its Crosshairs
September 9, 2021 // Montana, Wolves, Yellowstone
![A member of Yellowstone's Delta Pack](/content/articles/ic_1631214833_400x300_true.jpg)
In unprecedented move, new hunting and trapping regulations would allow every wolf coming into state from America's first national park to be killed as a trophy
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 MoreThe Messages Bears Bring
August 9, 2021
![If bears dreamed about us, what would they see?](/content/articles/ic_1628567600_400x300_true.jpg)
Poet Lois Red Elk writes that while bears and people emerged from the same origin dream, it was bruins who came first. Now, to find harmony, we need to be mindful of each other's space
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