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Wolf-Abuse Incident Prompts New Wyoming Bill

September 25, 2024 // NEWS: In Short

Wolves hope to find an advocate in Wyoming's Treatment of Predators Working Group
Draft bill protects the right to run down predators, with updated laws to limit ongoing suffering. Citizens say bill doesn’t go far enough.
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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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Feeling Through Fire: Part 1 - Mixed Emotions

August 27, 2024 // MoJo Special Series

In the moment: A lone firefighter on the 2021 Woods Creek Fire in Montana
In Part 1 of our series, wildland firefighters explore the emotional contradictions of fire and a job that demands more than just 16-hour days.
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Can We be Better ‘Masters of the Household?’

July 19, 2024 // OPINION: Column

In an age of selfie sticks and overcrowding, wildlife need their space
As residents and visitors in Greater Yellowstone, Susan Marsh writes that we must consider other species and give them the respect—and space—they deserve.
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Save Bears, Drink Cider

June 25, 2024 // NEWS: Dispatch

Attractants like human garbage, apple trees and birdseed can lure bears into towns in Greater Yellowstone
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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Wyoming Road Failure Reveals Housing Crisis

June 18, 2024 // OPINION: Op-ed

On June 8, a section of Highway 22 over Teton Pass collapsed in a massive landslide
Writers on the Range contributor Molly Absolon looks at the Teton Pass highway catastrophe and its impact on Jackson and its neighboring communities.
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Are Toxic Agrichemicals Forcing Rapid Evolution in Yellowstone Elk?

June 14, 2024 // NEWS: Feature

Pesticides and fertilizers may have caused deformities in Greater Yellowstone wildlife
New research suggests hazardous chemicals like pesticides and fertilizers used in farming, more so than wolves, contributed to a decline in Greater Yellowstone elk and other ruminants.
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Squeezing the Waterways in Greater Yellowstone

June 12, 2024 // OPINION: Column

Jackson, Wyoming. As they built it, they did come.
As Jackson Hole swells with development, MoJo columnist Susan Marsh writes that waterways like Flat Creek need our attention.
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Wolf Whacking Must Go

May 14, 2024 // OPINION: Op-ed

A lone female wolf trudges through the snow near Tower Junction in Yellowstone's Northern Range
On the heels of a wolf that was tortured and killed in Wyoming, Mountain Journal columnist Franz Camenzind says laws need to change.
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Bears Emerge from Slumber in Greater Yellowstone

May 2, 2024 // NEWS: In Short

A grizzly bear near Roaring Mountain, Yellowstone National Park
As bruins make spring entrance in the GYE, federal agencies announce the reintroduction of grizzlies in the North Cascades.
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What Dreams May Come

April 29, 2024 // MoJo Interview

The host of the "Who Runs This Park?" podcast in her element: Nature.
Maddie Pellman, host of the ‘Who Runs This Park?’ podcast, discusses how dreaming big delivered her dream job.
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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
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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Banishing the Tukudika

March 10, 2024 // FEATURE: History

Today and yesterday: the Yellowstone Revealed project depicted the historic and current presence of Indigenous people in Greater Yellowstone
In 1879, Yellowstone superintendent Philetus Norris made a fateful call that epitomized the park’s relationship with Indigenous people—and thus with the world.

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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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