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How Do We 'Make Meaning' Of Places Like Yellowstone?
April 26, 2018
Meghan Gupta, an undergrad at Yale, sends a message to herself in middle age
Read MoreLee Metcalf: Remembering Montana's Firebrand
April 12, 2018
Mike Mansfield called Metcalf the state's greatest senator. In part 2 of Ed Kemmick's series, he also stood out as a no-apology conservationist
Read MoreWeakening Wilderness Act Is Antithetical To Principle Of Landmark Law
April 10, 2018
Writer Michael Dax says efforts by hardcore recreation user groups to undermine wilderness protection are self-serving and short-sighted
Read MoreThe Mighty Absaroka-Beartooth Is 40
April 9, 2018
In this two-part tribute, writer Ed Kemmick celebrates not only landmark wilderness in Greater Yellowstone but Lee Metcalf, the senator who made it happen
Read MorePlummeting Morale In The Forest Service: Why It Should Matter To Americans Who Love Nature
March 27, 2018
Another tour de force piece from Susan Marsh on a once proud federal public land agency
Read MoreFor Yellowstone And America, Climate Change Brings Our Moment Of Truth
March 20, 2018
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem sits at the epicenter of a huge disruption from rising temperatures. Skiing will be the first of many major casualties
Read MoreThe Yellowstone Caldera Is Aflutter With Recent Shakes, Rattles and Rolls
February 21, 2018
The ground beneath Yellowstone continues to be aswarm with earthquakes. Learn why.
Read MoreAmid Partisan Jousting And Talk Of Government Shutdown, Why National Parks Matter
January 19, 2018 // Yellowstone
One teenager's desperate pilgrimage to see Old Faithful erupt is reminder of why we need grown adults making decisions in Congress
Read MoreThe Guy We All Wanted To Know—And Count As Our Friend
January 18, 2018
David J. Swift dies in Jackson Hole and we remember his everlasting spirit
Read MoreYellowstone Investigates Illegal Release of 52 Park Bison From Quarantine
January 17, 2018 // Bison, Yellowstone
Park officials say criminal trespass undermines effort to get animals transplanted on native reservations
Read MoreTrading Away Wildness For Oil And Tax Breaks
December 26, 2017 // Opinion, Public Lands
A respected Wyoming conservationist schools a U.S. senator after he votes to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to energy development
Read MoreThe Killing Fields Await Yellowstone Bison Once Again In Montana
December 15, 2017 // Yellowstone
More than 10,000 Yellowstone bison have been killed based on a faulty premise. Like the worry over Chronic Wasting Disease, this controversy has connections to Wyoming's feedgrounds
Read MoreChronic Wasting Disease Strikes Montana And Continues Its March On Yellowstone
November 16, 2017 // Chronic Wasting Disease, Public Lands, Wildlife, Yellowstone
Part 3 in Mountain Journal's ongoing series on Chronic Wasting Disease. With ultra-deadly CWD now in Montana wildlife for first time, critics say public officials are demonstrating irresponsibility by having no coordinated plan for confronting the disease
Read MoreA Sportsman's Moment of Truth: The Head of Trout Unlimited Weighs In
November 5, 2017
TU's President and CEO Chris Wood talks Zinke, Pruitt, Climate Change, Pebble Mine and lake trout in Yellowstone
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