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When The War Finally Comes (to America's First National Park)
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
Read MoreDoes Interior Secretary David Bernhardt Not Understand Coronavirus Threat?
March 23, 2020
Critics condemn Trump's top public land cabinet minister for telling people to visit Yellowstone and other parks during a pandemic. UPDATE: Yellowstone and Grand Teton closed Tuesday, March 24 until further notice
Read MoreGreen Rebuttal: Some Advocates Say Gallatin Forest Partnership Plan Sells Mountains, Wildlife Short
February 21, 2020
Joe Scalia says conservationists should rally around better vision for Gallatins that holds Forest Service's feet to the fire and results in more Wilderness
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 MoreClose Encounters Of The Avian Kind
November 21, 2019
As Phil Knight writes, human-animal curiosity and contact extends both ways
Read More'Outside Ourselves' Should Be Read By Every Outdoor Recreationist
September 30, 2019
Todd Burrit, former wilderness ranger, goes on a long wander in Greater Yellowstone and emerges as a protector
Read MoreDoes The E-Bike Invasion Represent A Menace To Wildlife And Character Of Public Lands?
September 25, 2019
Larry Desjardin examines impact of Interior Department executive order opening gate for e-bikes in national parks, wildlife refuges and BLM lands. Are national forests next?
Read MoreBig Guns Want 230,000 Acres Of Gallatins Near Yellowstone Protected As Wilderness
May 14, 2019
Founder of Patagonia joins former U.S. Interior Secretary and dozens of eminent scientists who say capital "W" essential to safeguarding wildlife in core of Greater Yellowstone
Read MoreA Human Toll That Can No Longer Be Ignored: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
February 11, 2019
Erika Ross gives a speech that lays out the magnitude of violence committed against women in Indian Country. Why has it taken so long to address this grave injustice?
Read MoreFinding Personal Transformation In Nature's Higher Ground
December 29, 2018
At the Anderson Ranch, "learning/adventure vacations" bring people together through fun, wildlife and stories shared around a campfire
Read MoreWestern Epiphanies: Lessons From The Largest Mobile Classroom In America
October 15, 2018 // Whitman College Semester In The West
Mountain Journal collaborates with students from Whitman College's "Semester in the West" who share their thoughts about issues shaping an iconic region
Read MoreGallatin Range Deserves Wilderness Protection: An Ecologist's Op Ed
September 6, 2018
George Wuerthner says one of Greater Yellowstone's most important wildlife areas is unprotected
Read MoreThe American West's Uncivil War: Assessing Watt, Zinke, Future Generations
June 3, 2018
A MoJo interview with Don Snow. Part 3: how we got here and where the environmental movement goes next
Read MoreThe American West's Uncivil War: When Northern Lights Burned Bright
May 28, 2018
In part two of MoJo's interview with Don Snow, he talks about living in the age of kakistrocracy. Is it the death knell of public lands?
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