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Bruin Lottery: Photographer Tom Mangelsen Scores A Wyoming Grizzly Tag

July 26, 2018 // Grizzly Bears, Hunting, Wildlife, Wyoming

Tom Mangelsen
Jackson Hole conservationist plans to hunt a bear with his camera, not a gun
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Yellowstone's New Chief Breaks The Silence

July 17, 2018 // Hunting, Leadership, Wildlife, Yellowstone

Cameron Sholly
In a Mountain Journal exclusive, Cameron Sholly talks Dan Wenk, Ryan Zinke's controversial moves and taking the helm of America's oldest national park
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Is David Vela The Next Chief Of The National Park Service?

July 3, 2018 // Grand Teton National Park, Jackson Hole, National Park Service

Grand Teton Park Superintendent David Vela
Grand Teton park superintendent rumored to be top pick. Would be first Hispanic-American to oversee agency
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In A Heating-Up West, Must Business-As-Usual Conservation Be Interrupted?

July 1, 2018 // Forest Service

Photo courtesy US Dept of Defense
Lance Olsen says the movement of protecting ecosystems needs to change its thinking if it wants to save them
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House Democrats Call Upon Zinke To Explain Forced Transfer of Dan Wenk

June 22, 2018 // Leadership, National Park Service, Politics, Yellowstone

President Donald Trump, Scott Pruitt and Ryan Zinke
Ranking minority member of House Natural Resources Committee wants Interior Secretary to reveal why he is forcing Yellowstone superintendent out
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Sage Grouse: Why Is The Trump Administration Killing A Bipartisan Plan To Save The Bird?

June 19, 2018

Greater sage-grouse
John Freemuth offers an overview of the politics affecting one of the most charismatic avians in the American West
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Ryan Zinke Scores A Pyrrhic Victory In Yellowstone

June 14, 2018

Ryan Zinke at Yellowstone's doorstep
After ousting Dan Wenk over bison, Interior Secretary now must decide: will he stand behind his controversial National Park Service Director?
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Cameron Sholly Named New Superintendent Of Yellowstone

June 13, 2018

Cam Sholly and Ryan Zinke
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announces replacement for Dan Wenk
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Forced Out Of Yellowstone

June 7, 2018 // Yellowstone

Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenke
Despite Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk’s desire to end his 42-year-career in America’s first national park, Ryan Zinke’s Interior Department demands he leave
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The American West's Uncivil War: Assessing Watt, Zinke, Future Generations

June 3, 2018

Students gaze into the future and past of the American West
A MoJo interview with Don Snow. Part 3: how we got here and where the environmental movement goes next
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The American West's Uncivil War: When Northern Lights Burned Bright

May 28, 2018

Photo courtesy NPS
In part two of MoJo's interview with Don Snow, he talks about living in the age of kakistrocracy.  Is it the death knell of public lands?
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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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Ryan Zinke Now Claims To Be A Born-Again Conservationist

May 22, 2018 // Private Lands, Science

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke
After angering millions of Americans for his brazen anti-environmental agenda, can the Interior Secretary win back the trust of citizens?
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Gallatin Valley's Tempest Of Growth

May 15, 2018

Bozeman as it is. Photo courtesy Montana State University
Headwaters Economics calls attention to alarming rate of disappearing open space around Bozeman. What does it mean for the wild Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem?
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