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He Set Out For A Long Walk Down Roadkill Highway
October 12, 2020
![Scott Poindexter on the road](/content/articles/ic_1602549171_400x300_true.jpg)
Scott Poindexter is crossing the country to raise awareness for wildlife crossings. During a pit stop in Greater Yellowstone, he assessed the grim toll
Read MoreHas 'Collaborative Conservation' Reached Its Limits?
October 5, 2020
![Will Teton Valley fill in like Bozeman and southern Jackson?](/content/articles/ic_1601933097_400x300_true.jpg)
A veteran rural land use planner says we need a new narrative to save the wild American West and the essence of local communities
Read MoreWhen White People Stopped Indigenous Elk Hunts In Jackson Hole
October 1, 2020
![Two Crow riders](/content/articles/ic_1601602671_400x300_true.jpg)
Frontier racism and injustice prompted legal action that still ripples across America involving native hunting and fishing rights. Red Lodge writer John Clayton takes a deep dive
Read More'The Modern West' Explores Struggles Small Towns Face To Survive
September 29, 2020
![Bannack, Montana now a ghost town](/content/articles/ic_1601402472_400x300_true.jpg)
Wyoming Public Media podcast enters second season with provocative line-up of stories ranging from modern ghost towns to race and communities confronting globalism
Read MoreMouthwatering Social Sustenance: How Good Food Holds Communities Together
September 28, 2020
![Head chef Leah Smutko in the dining room](/content/articles/ic_1601310574_400x300_true.jpg)
As covid impacts deepen, supporting Fork & Spoon is a tasty, satisfying way to fight hunger and enhance human dignity.
Read MoreWhy Wilderness Matters More Than Your Desire To Take It
August 25, 2020
![What's rarer: wild places or places to ride?](/content/articles/ic_1598391012_400x300_true.jpg)
Patagonia publishes essay from BIKE Magazine contributing editor Michael Ferrentino on our perceived right to ride where we want. Hint: He dismisses it.
Read MoreHow Social Media And Bad Behavior Are Leaving Wild Places Trashed
August 13, 2020
![Delta Lake in the Tetons is a victim of Covid-19](/content/articles/ic_1597362989_400x300_true.jpg)
What has the Covid age spawned? While problems exist in all corners of public land West, naturalist Susan Marsh looks at impacts in Jackson Hole
Read MoreThe Question That None Of Greater Yellowstone's Conservation Groups Are Willing To Confront
August 7, 2020
![Wildlife is what sets the region apart globally](/content/articles/ic_1596835611_400x300_true.jpg)
How is industrial-strength outdoor recreation and amenity development better than resource extraction it is replacing?
Read MoreFrom Gombe Chimps To Greater Yellowstone Griz, Jane Goodall Is Global Wildlife Ambassador
August 1, 2020
![Mangelsen's portrait of Gombe the young chimp](/content/articles/ic_1596326191_400x300_true.jpg)
Covid-19 spawns worries about health of our primate cousins. Tom Mangelsen photograph selected to help celebrate Goodall's 60-year connection to African wildlife preserve
Read MoreA Showdown Over Elk In Paradise?
July 30, 2020
![Worries over elk and disease in Paradise Valley](/content/articles/ic_1596128108_400x300_true.jpg)
New report illuminates clash between ranchers and disease-carrying elk that has huge implications for a famous Montana valley, migrating wildlife and a scenic corridor to Yellowstone
Read MoreGiving Grizzlies Their Legal Voice
July 19, 2020
![A mother grizzly and cub](/content/articles/ic_1595213049_400x300_true.jpg)
Robert Aland, a tax attorney from Chicago, credits bears with turning him into a citizen advocate for nature—as he believes all residents, even part-timers, should be
Read MoreListed Again: Greater Yellowstone Grizzlies Federally Protected And Won't Be Trophy Hunted
July 14, 2020
![Griz 399: matriarch poster child for her species](/content/articles/ic_1594693976_400x300_true.jpg)
What the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in its high-profile ruling and what it means for the most iconic population of bears in the world
Read MoreWhen Covid-19 Refugees Invade Our Space And Act Recklessly
June 28, 2020
![Don't worry about the future: be here now](/content/articles/ic_1593387309_400x300_true.jpg)
How Susan Marsh, a Greater Yellowstonean, is finding summer solace in her renewed gratitude for public lands
Read MoreWhat If The Lakota Had Wiped Lewis And Clark Off The Map?
June 15, 2020
![Lewis and Clark heading into indigenous homelands](/content/articles/ic_1592265019_400x300_true.jpg)
It could have happened. A descendent in the same blood line as Crazy Horse reflects on the Corps of Discovery staying alive and William Clark's racist attitudes
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