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The Strength Of Great Trees Is Grounded In Deep Roots
January 9, 2022
![An old cottonwood reflected in the water](/content/articles/ic_1641692118_400x300_true.jpg)
Poet Lois Red Elk reminds that the obvious things we savor about place, wildlife and community have deeper underpinnings in the earth
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 MoreThe Climber-Conservationist Who Literally Put Greater Yellowstone On The Map
December 28, 2021
![Rick Reese atop Mount Moran](/content/articles/ic_1640745246_400x300_true.jpg)
As advocates for the Yellowstone region go, Rick Reese ranks right up there with the most impactful of all time. His legacy is written in the abundant wildlife and healthy landscapes we value today
Read More'Gunfight' Is One Of The Most Important Books You May Ever Read About Guns In America
December 22, 2021
![What Ryan Busse loves to do when he's not writing](/content/articles/ic_1640204737_400x300_true.jpg)
Ryan Busse, a Montana hunter, was once a gun industry executive who helped create the uncivil war over firearms in America. Now he's trying to change the discourse before it's too late
Read MoreHe Went Outside To Go Inward
December 20, 2021
![Professor Creek and Mary Jane Canyon](/content/articles/ic_1640032146_400x300_true.jpg)
In 'Mary Jane Wild,' Brooke Williams seeks wildness in the West to help him make sense of a world coming apart at the seams. It's a fine read for these times
Read More'A Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map' Is A Great Read
December 14, 2021
![From exploring wildlands to saving them, Ridgeway continues his own evolution](/content/articles/ic_1639456727_400x300_true.jpg)
Rick Ridgeway has been called 'the real Indiana Jones' for his gravity-defying daring, breathtaking photos and yen to be outdoors. Now his priority is saving what's left of our wild home planet
Read MoreEruption: How Human Development Is Degrading The American Serengeti
December 5, 2021
![Big Sky and what used to be wild Montana](/content/articles/ic_1621302106_400x300_true.jpg)
Big blowups: Stunning visuals from Google Earth show how private land development and resource extraction on public lands are harming wildlife in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Read More“Never Here”: Battle Royale In MN Boundary Waters' Mine Fight Has Ties To Greater Yellowstone
November 16, 2021
![Boundary Waters: a wilderness marvel in America's Lower 48](/content/articles/ic_1637102210_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Journal interviews Becky Rom who is hoping to stop a mega copper mine, backed by Chilean investors, from harming the Lower 48's premier water wilderness
Read MoreDon't Shred On Them: A Young Star Skier Speaks Up For Bighorns
November 11, 2021
![Few bighorns worry about how they spend their leisure time](/content/articles/ic_1636602894_400x300_true.jpg)
Hadley Hammer, who learned to carve turns in the Tetons, says recreationists need to consider their growing impacts on sensitive wildlife. Her essay is one well worth reading
Read MoreHow Do We Continue The Miracle Of US Grizzly Conservation?
November 6, 2021
![In many ways, the fate of Grizzly 399 and cubs in in our hands](/content/articles/ic_1636213418_400x300_true.jpg)
Fate of Jackson Hole Grizzly 399, human-bear co-existence and Montana laws hostile to grizzlies will be discussed in virtual town hall Monday night by Servheen, Hilty and Mangelsen. You're invited
Read MoreSurrendering Nature To Politics: Are US National Parks In Retreat?
November 3, 2021
![Wapiti vs. cattle: In this range war, who should win?](/content/articles/ic_1635902051_400x300_true.jpg)
The triumph of cattle and farmers over elk in Point Reyes echoes the same public outrage involving wapiti, wolves and bison in Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Grand Canyon
Read MoreYellowstone Confronts Its Past
October 11, 2021
![Tribes are bringing deeper, truer meaning to Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1633981523_400x300_true.jpg)
Homeland and crossroads for at least 27 indigenous tribes, Yellowstone as a place has an ancient human history—one seldom acknowledged in its first 150 years as a park
Read MoreYellowstone Wolf 302 Latest Star In Rick McIntyre's Lobo Trifecta
September 30, 2021 // Wolves
![For Wolf 302, being a savvy hunter was matter of life or death](/content/articles/ic_1633048016_400x300_true.jpg)
It's not easy surviving as a wolf in America's oldest national park—and this doesn't even include the perils that loom for wolves from humans once they cross the northern border into Montana
Read MoreA Late Bloomer Writes Her Wild Heart
September 20, 2021 // Writing About Nature
![Carolyn Hopper in Glacier Park](/content/articles/ic_1632192490_400x300_true.jpg)
With two memoirs and a new book of nature poetry under her belt, Carolyn Keith Hopper has come a long way from growing up in the hometown of Thoreau, Emerson and Hawthorne
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