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Montana's Gallatin Valley And Wildlife Paying Big Price For Growth In Big Sky
July 18, 2023
![From the air: Scattershot sprawl rapidly filling Montana's pastoral Gallatin Valley](/content/articles/ic_1689731282_400x300_true.jpg)
What's happening near Gallatin Gateway, Montana is indicative, Robert Sisson says, of how developers are making profits but externalizing their costs on citizens and nature
Read MoreHow Greater Yellowstone Grizzlies Could Be Delisted And Remain Protected
July 18, 2023
![A grizzly mother with cubs in Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1689708387_400x300_true.jpg)
States are pushing hard to remove America's most famous grizzly population from federal protection. The primary reason is obvious. Why aren't we doing the same with bald eagles?
Read MoreThis ‘Bearish’ Economy Is One Most States Would Love To Have
July 14, 2023
![Totems of Greater Yellowstone's "bearish" economy](/content/articles/ic_1689362980_400x300_true.jpg)
Often cast as liabilities and villains by politicians, grizzlies and wolves in Yellowstone region are bullish assets that keep delivering dividends—as long as they remain alive
Read MoreThe World Loses Wildlife Art's Greatest Champion
July 6, 2023
![Bill Kerr, who helped create a global destination for wildlife art in Jackson Hole](/content/articles/ic_1688674272_400x300_true.jpg)
Bill Kerr passes at 85. In Jackson Hole, his vision led to creation of the National Museum of Wildlife Art, a shrine for those globally who value connections between art and nature
Read MoreIn Montana, Four Different Polls Say Citizens Seriously Unhappy About Sprawl
July 5, 2023
![Paradise Valley/Park County as interpreted by painter Robert Spannring](/content/articles/ic_1688528967_400x300_true.jpg)
North of Yellowstone, no-zoning signs fly like protest flags but residents of beautiful Park County are deeply concerned lack of planning is causing the loss of places they love
Read More'What Were You Thinking When You Took The Osprey?'
July 4, 2023
![As osprey perched on its nest, another avian wonder of Greater Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1688481526_400x300_true.jpg)
Dave Hall peers back four generations toward a revered ancestor who did things as a sportsman that would not meet today's conservation ethic
Read MoreHeadwaters' Report Highlights Downsides Of So-Called Green Lifestyle Economy
June 24, 2023
![New glampground along Yellowstone River in Paradise Valley, enabled by weak planning laws in Park County, Montana](/content/articles/ic_1687564178_400x300_true.jpg)
Environmentalists often condemn resource extraction, but is the 'natural amenity economy' built on industrial recreation, tourism and real estate sales better for wildlife?
Read MoreMountains In Wilderness Don’t Need Hardware
June 13, 2023
![Will a new bill in Congress untie parts of the Wilderness Act of 1964?](/content/articles/ic_1686673751_400x300_true.jpg)
New legislation could allow rock climbers to install permanent fixtures in Wilderness areas in Greater Yellowstone and nationwide
'Cracked' Makes Strong Case For Tearing Down Dams That Took Wild Rivers
June 8, 2023
![The Yellowstone River is the liquid gem of Paradise Valley. Some wanted to have it dammed](/content/articles/ic_1686180836_400x300_true.jpg)
Across West, author Steven Hawley writes, logic that justified damming rivers is wrong. Like Yosemite battle over Hetch Hetchy, Greater Yellowstone had its own fights
Read MoreSolving the Mystery of Hemingway’s ‘Big Two-Hearted River’
May 26, 2023
![Master engraver Chris Wormell was specially commissioned to provide original artwork for the Centennial Edition of "Big Two-Hearted River"](/content/articles/ic_1685142038_400x300_true.jpg)
John Maclean’s foreword to Hemingway’s early masterpiece in the recently published ‘Centennial Edition'
Read MoreGianforte Triumphs Again Showing Science Has No Place In Modern World
May 20, 2023
![Gianforte on his high horse, er dinosaur](/content/articles/ic_1684614763_400x300_true.jpg)
After Montana governor signs bill prohibiting climate change science from factoring in major state decisions, cartoonist John Potter hits back—with satire
In The Light Of A Campfire, People And Wolf As Original Brothers/Sisters
May 16, 2023
![The bond between humans and wolves stretches back to the twilight of our species](/content/articles/ic_1684268374_400x300_true.jpg)
In John Potter's painting, 'A Private Conversation,' the artist shares the Anishinaabe origin story of how Creator told humans and wolves their fates were forever intertwined
Read MoreDino Bone Museums Create Local Stars, Drive Tourism To Some Western Towns
May 8, 2023
![A T. Rex at Bozeman's Museum of the Rockies](/content/articles/ic_1683557810_400x300_true.jpg)
Struggling remote communities can benefit by keeping prehistoric bones in area where they are found, Adam Larson says in this piece from Writers on the Range
Read MoreA Time To Rally: When Ted Turner Gave Jacques Cousteau An End-Of-Life Pep Talk
April 23, 2023 // Conservation, Science
![Jacques Cousteau and his prized pupil Ted Turner](/content/articles/ic_1501690978_400x300_true.jpg)
Cousteau, once the most famous conservationist in the world, was a father figure to Ted Turner. In old age, Cousteau became cynical. Here's what Turner told him
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