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“Never Here”: Battle Royale In MN Boundary Waters' Mine Fight Has Ties To Greater Yellowstone
November 16, 2021
Mountain Journal interviews Becky Rom who is hoping to stop a mega copper mine, backed by Chilean investors, from harming the Lower 48's premier water wilderness
Read MorePacked Audience Hears Experts Discuss Biggest Threats To Famed Jackson Hole Grizzly 399, Other Bears
November 11, 2021
Miracle of grizzly conservation in Lower 48 being undermined by sloppy garbage storage, proliferating development, outdoor recreation pressure and bad laws
Read MoreDon't Shred On Them: A Young Star Skier Speaks Up For Bighorns
November 11, 2021
Hadley Hammer, who learned to carve turns in the Tetons, says recreationists need to consider their growing impacts on sensitive wildlife. Her essay is one well worth reading
Read MoreA Nourishment Of Reverence Across Generations
November 7, 2021
Poet Lois Red Elk reflects on how, for thousands of years, the aftermaths of successful autumn hunts have been times of coming together for families expressing reverence to the creator
Read MoreHow Do We Continue The Miracle Of US Grizzly Conservation?
November 6, 2021
Fate of Jackson Hole Grizzly 399, human-bear co-existence and Montana laws hostile to grizzlies will be discussed in virtual town hall Monday night by Servheen, Hilty and Mangelsen. You're invited
Read MoreSurrendering Nature To Politics: Are US National Parks In Retreat?
November 3, 2021
The triumph of cattle and farmers over elk in Point Reyes echoes the same public outrage involving wapiti, wolves and bison in Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Grand Canyon
Read MoreEvolution Of A Young Climate Activist
October 23, 2021
Two Lilys: A high school reporter who is going places interviews a contemporary who isn't content to sit on the sidelines. She's taking action
Read MoreYellowstone Confronts Its Past
October 11, 2021
Homeland and crossroads for at least 27 indigenous tribes, Yellowstone as a place has an ancient human history—one seldom acknowledged in its first 150 years as a park
Read MoreThe Trickster Renders Us Invisible
October 10, 2021 // Poetry, Wildlife
Lois Red Elk writes a poem about coyote that reminds how the essence of being is not material, but everything else
Read MoreForest Service "Debacle" In Black Hills Must Not Be Repeated Elsewhere
September 22, 2021 // Forest Service, Logging
Former second in command of US Forest Service questions agency's accelerated push to thin forests and log big trees in response to fire, insects and climate change. Felling forests, Jim Furnish says, is not a strategy to save them
Read MoreA Late Bloomer Writes Her Wild Heart
September 20, 2021 // Writing About Nature
With two memoirs and a new book of nature poetry under her belt, Carolyn Keith Hopper has come a long way from growing up in the hometown of Thoreau, Emerson and Hawthorne
Read MoreA Storm Front Moves Into Red State Wyoming
September 14, 2021 // Politics, Wyoming
Liz Cheney says she is fighting for truth and country but why do facts often evade her when it comes to honest discourse about environmental issues? That's a topic for MoJo's The Week That Is
Read MoreMore People, More Griz Does Not Have To Mean More Conflict
September 12, 2021 // Grizzly Bears
As Jessianne Castle reports in this story from wild country around Yellowstone and Glacier national parks, it's how humans behave that can keep people and bears safe
Read MoreMontana Defiantly Puts Yellowstone Wolves In Its Crosshairs
September 9, 2021 // Montana, Wolves, Yellowstone
In unprecedented move, new hunting and trapping regulations would allow every wolf coming into state from America's first national park to be killed as a trophy
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