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Wolf As Avatar: When A Lobo 'Stepson' Takes Over The Pack

September 30, 2020 // Wolves

Meet Mighty Wolf 21
Ted Kerasote review Rick McIntyre's 'The Reign of Wolf 21,' a dramatic sequel to the Yellowstone naturalist's critically-acclaimed debut about the most famous lobos on earth
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Mouthwatering Social Sustenance: How Good Food Holds Communities Together

September 28, 2020

Head chef Leah Smutko in the dining room
As covid impacts deepen, supporting Fork & Spoon is a tasty, satisfying way to fight hunger and enhance human dignity. 
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What Real Wildness Looks Like

September 19, 2020

Griz pursues a bull elk
A grizzly bear preys on a bull elk in Yellowstone. Rare to see, it's one of the things that makes Greater Yellowstone extraordinary
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Maintaining Forward Progress With The Great Bear

September 15, 2020

What's the next step in this remarkable success story?
Randy Newberg is host of some of the most popular hunting shows on social media in America. He reflects on stalking wapiti in grizzly country and Montana's strategy for guiding bruin conservation
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How Some Outdoor Recreationists See Their Impacts On Wildlife And Wild Places

September 7, 2020

What would wild places be without wildlife in them?
MoJo's college journalist intern Lorea Zabaleta interviews a quartet of her young contemporaries about the competition for space in the backcountry
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It's Time For Outdoor Recreationists To Not Just Be Takers

August 25, 2020

Boiling River in Yellowstone
In this thought-provoking piece, Lesli Allison, head of the Western Landowners Alliance, says people who play need to realize wildlife conservation and recreation are not the same
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The Question That None Of Greater Yellowstone's Conservation Groups Are Willing To Confront

August 7, 2020

Wildlife is what sets the region apart globally
How is industrial-strength outdoor recreation and amenity development better than resource extraction it is replacing?
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A Showdown Over Elk In Paradise?

July 30, 2020

Worries over elk and disease in Paradise Valley
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
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The Big-Hearted Wolf

July 23, 2020 // Wolves

Meet a non fairy tale lobo
Ted Kerasote reviews Rick McIntyre's paen to lobos 'The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing The Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog'
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Here Comes The Sun

July 21, 2020

Dancers looking into the sun
For people of the prairie, as poet Lois Red Elk reminds, summer is a time of togetherness, prayer and gratitude
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Listed Again: Greater Yellowstone Grizzlies Federally Protected And Won't Be Trophy Hunted

July 14, 2020

Griz 399: matriarch poster child for her species
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
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How One Version Of Paradise Found Became Lost

July 8, 2020

Is Hawaii a Greater Yellowstone harbinger?
A veteran journalist reflects on Hawaii and what it portends for other Shangri-las like Greater Yellowstone
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Griz Causes Minor Injury To Hiker In Yellowstone

June 24, 2020

A grizzly in Yellowstone
The park's first human-bear incident of 2020 happened near Old Faithful
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What If The Lakota Had Wiped Lewis And Clark Off The Map?

June 15, 2020

Lewis and Clark heading into indigenous homelands
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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