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Montana 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
Read MoreWildness Ought To Make Us All The Wiser
August 16, 2021
We crave and need contact with nature but, as Joseph Scalia writes in this essay, technology and human numbers are shrinking back the feel of wild places. That's why, he says, we need to protect more of them
Read MoreWired Differently: Young Americans And Wildland Conservation
June 21, 2021
Professor Don Snow, life-long student of the West, reflects on the generational divides in thinking about nature—what's an improvement and what might not be
Read MorePitched Agony
February 28, 2021
For a young athlete, is it better to chase a spot at the top and fall short, or make the grade then get cut? In his ongoing series, Eddy Prugh's journey of hard knocks continues
Read More"Public Trust" Is A Film About America's Natural Heritage That Will Rile You
October 16, 2020
Patagonia made a film about America's great natural asset—our public lands—and it is raising a ruckus. We interview the Montana journalist who appears in it. You can also see the film here, now.
Read MoreListed Again: Greater Yellowstone Grizzlies Federally Protected And Won't Be Trophy Hunted
July 14, 2020
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
Read MoreWhy A District Ranger Became Disgruntled With The US Forest Service
June 9, 2020
Hank Rate remembers when the Custer-Gallatin National Forest stalled wilderness protection and abandoned conservation in favor of getting the cut out
Read MoreGuest Essay: Why The Gallatin Mountains Need Permanent Protection, Especially Now
June 5, 2020
As a seasonal backcountry ranger-naturalist in adjacent Yellowstone, Orville "Butch" Bach has witnessed change coming to the region for decades—and fewer spots left untouched by people
Read MoreA Blackfeet Mother Fights For Sacred Mountains
May 29, 2020
Kendall Edmo rises to help defend the Badger-Two Medicine from energy development
Read More30 By 30: Indigenous Communities Taking Lead In Addressing Climate Change, Protecting Wildlife
May 29, 2020
30 X 30: New report from the Wyss Foundation highlights First Nations leaders in our own back yard and around the world
Read More'Unbroken Wilderness:' Some Call The Porcupine And Buffalo Horn 'Holy Land'
May 14, 2020
As animal highways important to Yellowstone Park, Bart Koehler says they are also the Gallatins' beating wild heart—and deserve protection
Read MoreOf God And Guns: How The Sagebrush Rebellion Turned Into A Hotbed Of Armed Modern Radicals
March 24, 2020
In this excerpt from Betsy Gaines Quammen's new book 'American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West,' the author explores how Utah became the center of anti-federalism
Read MoreAre We Giving The Wild Gallatins The Visionary Protection They Really Deserve?
December 29, 2019
By the wildlife they hold, the Gallatin Mountains are wilder than most national parks in the Lower 48. So why are the Forest Service and enviro groups balking at more extensive protections?
Read MoreTerminal Diagnosis: How Montana Writer Ivan Doig Coped With His Own End
October 5, 2019
Doig's spirit springs to life in the MSU Library Archives, revealing his literary triumphs, fears and what lay in his heart
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