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Running Through A Human-Framed Masterpiece

December 3, 2018

Bison at Ted Turner's Flying D Ranch
A student tries to make sense of Ted Turner's attempt to restore wildness and ponders the role of bison and beaver as keystone species
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The Drone That Stalked A Bear Cub And Nearly Pushed It Over The Edge

November 14, 2018

Two bears climb a perilous snow snowfield
In a harrowing nature video that went viral, there's an unethical story behind the narrative
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Trouble in Aspen: What Happens When Working Class Employees With Affordable Housing Retire?

October 25, 2018 // Growth—Good, Bad & Ugly

Aspen, Colorado
Should they be encouraged to leave in order to make room for the next generation of worker bees?
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Western Epiphanies: Lessons From The Largest Mobile Classroom In America

October 15, 2018 // Whitman College Semester In The West

Westies ground-truthing fact from fiction
Mountain Journal collaborates with students from Whitman College's "Semester in the West" who share their thoughts about issues shaping an iconic region
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Atop The Ecosystem Custer-Gallatin Shines

September 13, 2018

Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
In MoJo's new series "Beyond the National Parks," we explore Greater Yellowstone's longest national forest
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Gallatin Range Deserves Wilderness Protection: An Ecologist's Op Ed

September 6, 2018

A view of the Madisons from the Gallatins
George Wuerthner says one of Greater Yellowstone's most important wildlife areas is unprotected
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Bierstadt Exhibition At Buffalo Bill Will Leave You Spellbound

September 5, 2018 // Fine Art, Museums

Bierstadt's 'Last of the Buffalo' sketch
The unprecedented assemblage of Bierstadt masterpieces is powerful window into changing West. Hurry, it runs through Sept. 30
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Denial No More: Bozeman's Boom Is Coming At A Steep Cost To People, Community

August 31, 2018 // Growth—Good, Bad & Ugly

A Bozeman view by drone
If growth produces "winners," then who and what are the "losers"?
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TR IV: Meet A Real Theodore Roosevelt Conservationist

August 12, 2018 // Leadership, Ryan Zinke, Wildlife

Teddy, Ted and Ryan
Great grandson of 'the old lion' calls moderate Republicans 'an endangered species'
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How A Gutsy Newspaper Helped Save The Natural Essence Of Jackson Hole

August 3, 2018 // Grand Teton National Park, Jackson Hole, Media, The New West

The heart of Jackson Hole, protected.
Grand Teton National Park, as we know it today, might not exist were it nor for truth-demanding media battling against real fake news
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Wide Awake In The Land Of Griz

July 15, 2018 // Grizzly Bears

 Has this ever happened to you?
Steve Primm in part 2 of his MoJo series asks, 'Are you really ready to explore bear country?'
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The Draper: Another Greater Yellowstone Crown Jewel

July 11, 2018

Draper Museum of Natural History
Meet the Cody museum dubbed 'the Smithsonian of the West'
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The American West's Uncivil War: What Would Wallace Stegner Think?

May 25, 2018

A MoJo interview with Don Snow about his native West. Part 1: seeing the region whole
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In Tom Miner Basin, Horse As Extension Of Place And Self

May 20, 2018

The Anderson Ranch in Tom Miner
For Julie Anderson, horses bring a grounding perspective in life in the wild Gallatins north of Yellowstone. Enjoy Louise Johns' new column and Western women and equines
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