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Terminal Diagnosis: How Montana Writer Ivan Doig Coped With His Own End
October 5, 2019
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Doig's spirit springs to life in the MSU Library Archives, revealing his literary triumphs, fears and what lay in his heart
Read MoreSoliloquy For The Fall: Nature Is A Place Where Non-conformists Can Find Themselves
September 29, 2019
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Susan Marsh riffs eloquently on connecting to place, loss of place and what's worth saving. Are we in Greater Yellowstone listening?
Read MoreWhere Grizzlies Still Barely Hang On—In Their Own Yaak Time
September 23, 2019
![Can humans leave any place alone?](/content/articles/ic_1569288087_400x300_true.jpg)
For writer Rick Bass, dignity can be measured where nature is allowed to persist without impetuous interference. Another installment in our Sounds Of Silence series.
Read MoreArmed And Ready—For Safer Travel In Griz Country
September 23, 2019
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Danielle Oyler teaches people how to live and recreate smarter around places where bears live. How knowledgeable are you?
Read MoreThe Mighty Return Of Tatanka
September 4, 2019
![A bison in Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1567642347_400x300_true.jpg)
Poet Lois Red Elk writes of buffalo dreams becoming fulfilled and rumbling spirits finding a way home
Read MoreActually, Most Americans Support The Endangered Species Act
August 28, 2019
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Despite claims by the Trump Administration and some politicians that the public desperately wanted the ESA reformed, that isn't what citizens say in surveys
Read MoreMike Yochim Literally Writes This Love Letter To Yellowstone With His Eyes
August 27, 2019
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Stricken with ALS—aka Lou Gehrig's Disease—author of new book on Yellowstone gives MoJo interview to talk about park and stories that need telling
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 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 MoreRuckus Over A National Hiking Trail: A MoJo Interview With Writer And Conservationist Rick Bass
June 25, 2019
![View of the Yaak Valley](/content/articles/ic_1561484918_400x300_true.jpg)
Should the Pacific Northwest Trail be re-routed in the Yaak Valley to insure habitat for an imperiled population of grizzlies remains protected?
Read MoreJudging Edward Abbey
June 12, 2019
![Amy Irvine's response to Desert Solitaire](/content/articles/ic_1560379505_400x300_true.jpg)
Charlie Quimby reviews 'Desert Cabal,' Amy Irvine's semi-reverential take-down of Cactus Ed, environmental hero and flawed human, like all of us
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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