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December 23, 2024 // NEWS: Dispatch

Portrait of Grizzly Bear Tracks, Salish leader, by Thomas Adams
In two new books, a Montana historian tracks how Native and White cultures blend and break away.
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'Walking Among Giants': A Writer’s Introduction to the Grizzly Bear

September 23, 2024

The mighty grizzly bear and cubs of the year in 2018
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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On ‘A River’

July 17, 2024 // Book Review

The professor. Norman Maclean was as at home in the classroom as he was on Montana waters.
A new biography dives into the life of author Norman Maclean, his writing and his motivation behind the greatest fly-fishing story ever told.
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Meet me in Fairyland

February 27, 2024 // OPINION: Essay

The "Totem Forest" of Fairyland Basin in all its magic
In his latest essay, MoJo contributor Todd Burritt examines nature, friendship and the enduring magic of Yellowstone's backcountry.
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Premiere of the Queen

February 15, 2024 // NEWS: Dispatch

As a 25-year-old mother in 2020, Grizzly 399 emerged from hibernation with four cubs
Grizzly 399 is the most famous bear in the world. The new film, 399: Queen of the Tetons, makes its world premiere at Missoula’s Documentary Film Festival on Feb. 16
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Seen from Above

October 11, 2023 // Opinion

Author Thomas Turiano: climb to a point of prominence and your sphere of awareness will grow
Mountain climbing, sense of place, and, after 15 years out of print, the second edition of Select Peaks of Greater Yellowstone
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Bear Tags As Revenue Generators: How Much Will Wyoming Make Bringing Back Griz Hunt?

July 26, 2023

One of Grizzly 399's original three cubs, 587
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?
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What it means to stand at the Crossroads of the West

July 20, 2023

Perception versus reality: The West ain't what you see in old cowboy films
In her latest book, "True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America," Betsy Gaines Quammen takes a deep look into the myths of the West and how we our future lies in the balance
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How Greater Yellowstone Grizzlies Could Be Delisted And Remain Protected

July 18, 2023

A grizzly mother with cubs in Yellowstone
States are pushing hard to remove America's most famous grizzly population from federal protection. The primary reason is obvious. Why aren't we doing the same with bald eagles?
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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
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
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'What Were You Thinking When You Took The Osprey?'

July 4, 2023

As osprey perched on its nest, another avian wonder of Greater Yellowstone
Dave Hall peers back four generations toward a revered ancestor who did things as a sportsman that would not meet today's conservation ethic 
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Looking Past The Cliches of 'Western Art'

June 18, 2023

Bill Stockton's portrayal of a sunset
In her new award-winning book 'Montana Modernists,' Michele Corriel declares that artists from the West are so much more than frontier portrayals of cowboys and Indians
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Grizzly 399 And Cub—An Update From Jackson Hole

June 17, 2023

A mother's love: 399 and cub likely to be her last
At Summer Solstice and more than a month out of the den, 399 has devoted much time, Thomas Mangelsen says, to helping her cub understand the joy of play
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Complements in Landscape Beauty: Art and Place in the Gros Ventre and Beyond

June 12, 2023

The Teton Range from the sandstone rim on “Magic Ridge.”
Returning to ‘Magic Ridge,’ Susan Marsh rediscovers the many faces of Nature’s splendor
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