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Late Spring Dance: Life, Death And Renewal In Yellowstone
May 7, 2022
![Young wapiti doing the jig of life](/content/articles/ic_1528769464_400x300_true.jpg)
Steve Fuller, winterkeeper of America's oldest national park, takes note of Yellowstone's most dramatic season
Read MoreJuggernaut: Industrial Recreation Deepens Its Tear Across America's Wildlands
April 27, 2022
![At what point is nature conquered?](/content/articles/ic_1651096624_400x300_true.jpg)
Is outdoor recreation Manifest Destiny 2.0? Get ready, the West is about to experience a rush to expand the outdoor recreation infrastructure like never before. Is that a good thing for nature?
Read MoreSearching For The 'Other Bob' Behind Dylan
April 25, 2022
![Dylan playing at the Civil Rights March in Washington DC, summer 1963](/content/articles/ic_1650841067_400x300_true.jpg)
In 1968, writer Toby Thompson set out for Hibbing, Minnesota on a quest to find out how Robert Zimmerman became Bob Dylan. He met the legend's high school sweetheart who inspired a Dylan song
Crow Hip Hopper Supaman Drives A DeLorean Into Past Carrying Earth Day Message
April 22, 2022
![Supaman is becoming a superstar](/content/articles/ic_1650643026_400x300_true.jpg)
If you could time travel and carry an environmental message to your ancestors, what would you say? Supaman goes back to the future, reminding young people why they need to care for the Earth
Read MoreGreater Yellowstone Tourism Soars With No Limits In Sight
April 16, 2022
![Is there a pot of tourism gold awaiting at this Yellowstone rainbow?](/content/articles/ic_1650127593_400x300_true.jpg)
In conclusion of his series on the evolution of mass tourism in the Yellowstone region, Earle Layser wonders why there's no leadership from local politicians and public land managers?
Read MoreWhen Entering Griz Country: New Holster Makes Bear Spray Quicker On The Draw
April 12, 2022
![A mother bear and cubs in Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1649792262_400x300_true.jpg)
If bear spray isn't readily accessible, what good is it? Richard Siberell's 'Bearosol Holster' designed to give mountain bikers and others easier reach to spray when bears appear and seconds matter
Read MoreAnother Colorado Mountain Town Copes With Impacts Of Growing Recreation Pressure On Wildlife
April 9, 2022
![A bull elk in the mountains near Steamboat](/content/articles/ic_1649520053_400x300_true.jpg)
Outside of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, expanding trails and intensity of use are impacting how elk use the landscape and may be causing their numbers to fall.
Read MoreOutdoor Recreation Equals Conservation: Debunking The Myth
April 5, 2022
![Why does Greater Yellowstone still have all of its wildlife?](/content/articles/ic_1649196270_400x300_true.jpg)
A developer's proposal to build a 'glampground' on the banks of the famous Gallatin River stokes controversy and calls messaging used by American conservation groups about recreation into question
Read MoreAn Elder And Grandmother Shows How To Touch The Future Winds
April 2, 2022
![The branches of time travel](/content/articles/ic_1648919797_400x300_true.jpg)
Lois Red Elk doesn't need poetry to live beyond her time. In just 124 words, she reveals how all of us can pay forward positive thoughts to benefit wildlife and people we may never know
Read MoreRevealing Yellowstone's Ancient Prequel
April 1, 2022
![In Yellowstone, human time frames are relative](/content/articles/ic_1648840148_400x300_true.jpg)
From the "First Family" in the Yellowstone region twelve millennia ago to today, Shane Doyle says a teepee encampment reminds that humans have a deep history in this part of the world
Read MoreIs A Toothless Federal Bureaucracy Devoted To Ecosystem Protection Capable Of Doing Its Job?
March 31, 2022
![Development in Jackson Hole is hurting wildlife on both private and public land](/content/articles/ic_1648752880_400x300_true.jpg)
What happens when a bunch of federal bureaucratic agencies are thrown together with a mission to protect America's best wildlife ecosystem? Not enough, argues Earle Layser in part two of his series on Yellowstone
Read MoreIs Yellowstone Tourism Promotion Helping Or Hurting The Protection Of Wild Places and Wildlife?
March 29, 2022
![Does wild country need a publicist?](/content/articles/ic_1648589637_400x300_true.jpg)
In Mountain Journal's ongoing series on the topic of limits and our co-existence with Nature, we ponder how advertising, social media and travel writing are negatively impacting the places they tout
Read MoreIt Started With A Pilgrimage To Wonderland
March 23, 2022
![A black bear jam more than half a century ago in Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1648022618_400x300_true.jpg)
In the first of a three-part series, "Reflections on a Changed and Changing Yellowstone," writer Earle F. Layser remembers his first visit to America's first national park 75 years ago compared to today
Read MoreWherever You Find Fun Outside, Crazy Creek Has Your Back Covered
March 23, 2022
![The camp chair of choice for 35 years](/content/articles/ic_1648018587_400x300_true.jpg)
Red Lodge, Montana-based maker of portable chairs, a favorite of active outdoorspeople in the Rockies, is also devoted to protecting the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
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