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Game Farms Should Warrant Greater Scrutiny In Age Of Disease Pandemics
April 21, 2020
In this op-ed, Wayne Pacelle calls out a controversial industry, profiting off of captive wildlife, that has been linked to spread of Chronic Wasting Disease
Read MoreChronic Wasting Disease: America's Homegrown Contagion That Lumbers On Four Hooves
April 12, 2020
Forget, for a moment, Covid-19 and bats. Epidemiologists say we need to take seriously this wildlife version of Mad Cow rapidly spreading across the country. First in a new investigative series
Read MoreWhat Can Greater Yellowstone Learn From Africa? (Remembering Garth Owen-Smith 1944-2020)
April 11, 2020
From sport hunting iconic species to giving local communities ownership over wildlife, Namibia may do things that drive some American conservationists crazy, but it has slowed and reversed the decimation of wildlife
Read MoreOf God And Guns: How The Sagebrush Rebellion Turned Into A Hotbed Of Armed Modern Radicals
March 24, 2020
In this excerpt from Betsy Gaines Quammen's new book 'American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West,' the author explores how Utah became the center of anti-federalism
Read MoreWith Fate of Iconic Mountains Uncertain, Members of Gallatin Forest Partnership Make Their Case
February 17, 2020
Interest groups believe their plan offers a real chance to secure permanent protection for the Wild Gallatins
Read MoreYellowstone Time: Of Personal Transformation Set To Nature's Rhythms
December 31, 2019
Off the beaten path, Steven Fuller reveals the national park unknown to most of the masses
Read MoreAre We Giving The Wild Gallatins The Visionary Protection They Really Deserve?
December 29, 2019
By the wildlife they hold, the Gallatin Mountains are wilder than most national parks in the Lower 48. So why are the Forest Service and enviro groups balking at more extensive protections?
Read MoreImperiled Sustenance?
December 10, 2019
Poet Lois Red Elk shares her concern about how Chronic Wasting Disease may affect the animals rooted deep in indigenous culture
Read MoreChronic Wasting Disease Reaches Wild Elk In Montana
November 25, 2019
For the first time ever, CWD has been confirmed in Montana wapiti. How might it affect America's most iconic concentration of big game animals?
Read MoreUp North There's Concern About Skinny Grizzlies And Declining Salmon
November 11, 2019
Another reminder that all grizzly foods aren't equal. When you lose one, as has been shown in Greater Yellowstone, it can disorder things at an ecosystem level
Read MoreWhen E in Environmentalist Stands For Empathy
October 21, 2019
MoJo columnist Jordan Payne says righteousness alone won't convince young people to support landscape protection
Read MoreThe Mega Value Of Forests Free Of Roads
October 8, 2019
A former Forest Service Chief and the national head of Trout Unlimited recall the motivation behind an amazing act of conservation that could be undone by Trump
Read MoreShould Carrying Bear Spray Be Required For Big Game Hunters In Grizzly Country?
October 3, 2019
Just as life vests are required for boaters and wearing orange for rifle hunters, Mike Bader says bear spray ought to be compulsory too
Read MoreAmericans Love Public Lands And Species Conservation But How Do We Pay For Them?
September 26, 2019
Opinion: John Goodell says a new bill, "The Recovering America's Wildlife Act," offers a game-changing path forward. What you need to know
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