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Peacock The Firebrand Asks: Is Fighting For Wild Earth Worth It?
May 17, 2022
Doug Peacock battles for grizzly conservation, inspired an Ed Abbey character and served as a Green Beret medic in Vietnam. His new memoir is perfect read for summer
Read MoreGrizzlies Around Yellowstone Are Entering A Big Squeeze
May 16, 2022
Past research shows bears are sensitive to small amounts of habitat intrusion by recreation and development. But what's the impact now as both of those go boom?
Read MorePlease Look Up: Goldens Are In Trouble
May 12, 2022
Golden eagles are barometers for how to think about landscape changes and threats to wildlife in the West. Featured in new film, Charles Preston says these amazing birds of prey deserve our attention
Read MoreLate Spring Dance: Life, Death And Renewal In Yellowstone
May 7, 2022
Steve Fuller, winterkeeper of America's oldest national park, takes note of Yellowstone's most dramatic season
Read MoreJuggernaut: Industrial Recreation Deepens Its Tear Across America's Wildlands
April 27, 2022
Is outdoor recreation Manifest Destiny 2.0? Get ready, the West is about to experience a rush to expand the outdoor recreation infrastructure like never before. Is that a good thing for nature?
Read MoreSearching For The 'Other Bob' Behind Dylan
April 25, 2022
In 1968, writer Toby Thompson set out for Hibbing, Minnesota on a quest to find out how Robert Zimmerman became Bob Dylan. He met the legend's high school sweetheart who inspired a Dylan song
Crow Hip Hopper Supaman Drives A DeLorean Into Past Carrying Earth Day Message
April 22, 2022
If you could time travel and carry an environmental message to your ancestors, what would you say? Supaman goes back to the future, reminding young people why they need to care for the Earth
Read MoreGreater Yellowstone Tourism Soars With No Limits In Sight
April 16, 2022
In conclusion of his series on the evolution of mass tourism in the Yellowstone region, Earle Layser wonders why there's no leadership from local politicians and public land managers?
Read MoreProtecting The Environment Per The State Constitution? An Expert On The Law Says 'Not!'
April 10, 2022
Opinion: A retired Montana Supreme Court justice says his state is going backward, not forward, in safeguarding the lands and waters that generations of both parties fought to preserve
Read MoreAn Elder And Grandmother Shows How To Touch The Future Winds
April 2, 2022
Lois Red Elk doesn't need poetry to live beyond her time. In just 124 words, she reveals how all of us can pay forward positive thoughts to benefit wildlife and people we may never know
Read MoreRevealing Yellowstone's Ancient Prequel
April 1, 2022
From the "First Family" in the Yellowstone region twelve millennia ago to today, Shane Doyle says a teepee encampment reminds that humans have a deep history in this part of the world
Read MoreIs Yellowstone Tourism Promotion Helping Or Hurting The Protection Of Wild Places and Wildlife?
March 29, 2022
In Mountain Journal's ongoing series on the topic of limits and our co-existence with Nature, we ponder how advertising, social media and travel writing are negatively impacting the places they tout
Read MoreCowboying Up Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Be Vulnerable
March 28, 2022
Western men and women often evince the "I don't need nobody to care for me" look but all they really want is to feel connection. A new column about toughness by psychotherapist Timothy Tate
Read MoreIt Started With A Pilgrimage To Wonderland
March 23, 2022
In the first of a three-part series, "Reflections on a Changed and Changing Yellowstone," writer Earle F. Layser remembers his first visit to America's first national park 75 years ago compared to today
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