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Standby Snow: Chronicles of a Heatwave, Chapter One
September 6, 2019
![Standby Snow, Chapter One](/content/articles/ic_1567784023_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Time Arts takes on climate change by making it visceral, not abstract, for Greater Yellowstoneans
Read MoreIt's Time To Get The Lead Out Of Hunting Ammo
September 5, 2019
![A bald eagle feasting on a deer](/content/articles/ic_1567697499_400x300_true.jpg)
Eliminating lead bullets isn't anti-hunting, experts say; it's being pro-human and wildlife health. Franz Camenzind asks: what sportsman would be opposed to that?
Read MoreUltra-lethal 'Cyanide Bombs' Used To Kill Public Wildlife Banned For Now In Wyoming
August 20, 2019
![A deadly M-44 'cyanide bomb'](/content/articles/ic_1566320753_400x300_true.jpg)
Despite coming under increasing pressure, EPA remains noncommittal to abolishing deadly M-44s used to kill predators that eat livestock on public land
Read MoreOnce Proud Forest Service Poised To Help Gut NEPA
August 19, 2019
![A landmark law is under attack](/content/articles/ic_1566198401_400x300_true.jpg)
Instead of a improving a landmark environmental law, changes appear designed to flout environmental standards, says award-winning former Forest Service veteran
Read MoreSocial Media: Harnessing The Digital Human Ecosystem To Protect Nature
August 7, 2019
![A Yellowstone warning circulated on social media](/content/articles/ic_1565237258_400x300_true.jpg)
MoJo summer intern Jordan Payne explores the multiple ways, for good and bad, that social media is affecting the way we interface with the wild outdoors
Read MoreWhen Cultures Collide
July 30, 2019
![Do you know what happened here?](/content/articles/ic_1564500197_400x300_true.jpg)
From the Battle of Pierre's Hole to a debate over an offensive high school mascot, Teton Valley is a perfect place for historical reflection
Read MoreStopping A Yellowstone Hetch-Hetchy: When Private Interests Nearly Put Parts Of America's First National Park Under Water
July 28, 2019
![Yellowstone Lake, site of a defeated dam](/content/articles/ic_1564352488_400x300_true.jpg)
In this excerpt from John Taliaferro's new book on George Bird Grinnell, local efforts to exploit Yellowstone remind us again that past is prelude
Read MoreWhy A Group In Jackson Hole, Devoted To Unbridled Adventure, Conservation And Diversity, Is Under Fire
July 23, 2019
![Do we consume nature to protect it?](/content/articles/ic_1563396585_400x300_true.jpg)
SHIFT can still have real impact but only if it is willing to shift itself
Read MoreHow Lost Words Translate Into Lost Worlds
July 18, 2019
![It goes by the Snake but has other names](/content/articles/ic_1563488772_400x300_true.jpg)
Place names matter, even when describing the ineffable and especially if monikers provide cover for cultural amnesia
Read MoreIs Geotagging Putting A Bullseye On The Last Best Places?
July 16, 2019
![Making a memory that will bring bigger crowds?](/content/articles/ic_1563321665_400x300_true.jpg)
Photographs and videos being shared on social media are causing hideaways to get overrun. So what can be done?
Read MoreWarning Signs Are Flashing
June 27, 2019
![Have we passed the human-wildlife tipping point?](/content/articles/ic_1561492299_400x300_true.jpg)
Jackson Hole is on the front lines of a new reality: As Susan Marsh notes, we are rapidly running roughshod over the things that bring us to Greater Yellowstone
Read MoreCurbing Our Egos In All Ages
June 23, 2019
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Why is it so hard for younger folk to embrace restraint in our consumption of nature? Is a new form of 'athletic Manifest Destiny' upon us? Timothy Tate ruminates.
Read MoreThe Wild West: How Do We Deal With Its Rapid Transformation?
June 19, 2019
![How can the West gain 20/20 vision?](/content/articles/ic_1560956497_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Journal intern Jordan Payne gets a crash course on the New West and titanic forces shaping its future
Read MoreCam Sholly's Agenda For Safeguarding Yellowstone
June 10, 2019
![Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly](/content/articles/ic_1560174287_400x300_true.jpg)
New superintendent of America's oldest national park lays out priorities, discussing everything from grizzlies, wolves and bison to snarled road traffic and other threats
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