Charlie Quimby reviews Nathaniel Popkin's thought-provoking new book which asks: How and why are we programmed to gluttonously consume Earth's resources, including wildness?
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Caroline Price's art has assumed greater meaning, reminding us of the things that matter most. She knows by personal experience
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The Week That Is: Sadler and Wilkinson talk the fate of Cheney, fractures in GOP and Trump's attempt to turn Wyoming against her
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August 21, 2020
Charlie Quimby reviews David Gessner's new book 'Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness'
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April 4, 2020
Ready for survivalism, are you? Yellowstone winterkeeper Steven Fuller indelicately dismantles the End-Times fantasy. There is no place humans can run to escape ourselves
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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 MoreWith 'Cold Country' A New Writing Star Is Born
March 24, 2020
Behind the pages: Charlie Denison interviews Montana writer Russell Rowland about a novel set in Paradise Valley
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
Read MoreJudging Edward Abbey
June 12, 2019
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 MoreWill "Stay Wild" Help Build An Army Of Committed Landscape Protectors?
October 10, 2017
As public lands cope with an onset of industrial-strength outdoor recreation, promotors of a new ad campaign in Jackson Hole claim their ultimate intent is to grow conservation
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