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January 19, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
![BLM's Missouri Breaks National Backcountry Byway in North Central Montana](/content/articles/ic_1737314643_400x300_true.jpg)
Tracy Stone-Manning turned in her BLM keys. As she exits civil service, she reflects on her career, the incoming administration, and the public’s love for public land.
Read MoreFighting for Survival
January 14, 2025 // NEWS: Analysis
![FWS on Jan. 8 announced its decision to keep grizzlies protected under the Endangered Species Act](/content/articles/ic_1736893411_400x300_true.jpg)
At a charged time for grizzly bears, MoJo takes you inside the complex U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to keep grizzlies on the endangered species list.
Read MoreFWS: Grizzly Bears to Remain Protected Under Endangered Species Act
January 8, 2025 // NEWS: Dispatch
![Grizzlies have been protected under the Endangered Species Act since 1975. For now, they'll remain so.](/content/articles/ic_1736363110_400x300_true.jpg)
The agency rejected state petitions for local management, creating a single recovery area for grizzlies in the Lower 48.
Buffalo Bridge
December 23, 2024 // NEWS: Dispatch
![Portrait of Grizzly Bear Tracks, Salish leader, by Thomas Adams](/content/articles/ic_1734981796_400x300_true.jpg)
In two new books, a Montana historian tracks how Native and White cultures blend and break away.
Read MoreTiny Trouble in Microplastics
December 13, 2024 // NEWS: Dispatch
![Delaminating water-resistant coating on a rain jacket](/content/articles/ic_1734132587_400x300_true.jpg)
Outdoor and camping gear’s
push to stay light and dry leaves it exposed to big health risks.
Read MoreUnpacking a ‘Uniquely Mysterious’ Development Proposal in Paradise Valley
December 10, 2024 // NEWS: Dispatch
![The view from Suce Creek drainage in Paradise Valley](/content/articles/ic_1733877524_400x300_true.jpg)
Park County residents grapple with a high-density resort proposal in an agricultural area south of Livingston.
Read MoreThe Forgotten Woman Behind Yellowstone’s Predator Revolution
September 26, 2024 // FEATURE: History
![Rosalie Barrow Edge, "Hawk of Mercy"](/content/articles/ic_1727290962_400x300_true.jpg)
Rosalie
Edge transformed public perceptions of predator policies in the Yellowstone
ecosystem—so why isn’t she more famous?
Read MoreOn ‘A River’
July 17, 2024 // Book Review
![The professor. Norman Maclean was as at home in the classroom as he was on Montana waters.](/content/articles/ic_1721235906_400x300_true.jpg)
A new
biography dives into the life of author Norman Maclean, his writing and his
motivation behind the greatest fly-fishing story ever told.
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.
New Research Suggests Montana FWP Wolf Count High
December 14, 2023 // NEWS: Feature
![Wolf reintroduction efforts in Greater Yellowstone beginning in 1995 were successful. As Montana weighs its new wolf management plan, numbers are in question](/content/articles/ic_1702600869_400x300_true.jpg)
Bozeman-based researcher says agency's model for counting wolves is wrong. FWP disagrees citing a lack of peer review.
Read MoreFinding our MoJo
October 2, 2023
![We've heard the call and are gearing up.](/content/articles/ic_1696268942_400x300_true.jpg)
As Mountain Journal ramps up coverage, a letter from its Interim Executive Director and Managing Editor
Read MoreWhat 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](/content/articles/ic_1689873857_400x300_true.jpg)
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
Read MoreMontana's Gallatin Valley And Wildlife Paying Big Price For Growth In Big Sky
July 18, 2023
![From the air: Scattershot sprawl rapidly filling Montana's pastoral Gallatin Valley](/content/articles/ic_1689731282_400x300_true.jpg)
What's happening near Gallatin Gateway, Montana is indicative, Robert Sisson says, of how developers are making profits but externalizing their costs on citizens and nature
Read MoreHow Greater Yellowstone Grizzlies Could Be Delisted And Remain Protected
July 18, 2023
![A grizzly mother with cubs in Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1689708387_400x300_true.jpg)
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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