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When 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 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 MoreIn Lakota, Cante t’insya Manipelo Means 'They Walk Courageously'
March 4, 2022
![Reflections on home, leaving home and 'going home'](/content/articles/ic_1646495677_400x300_true.jpg)
From the prairie, Lois Red Elk (Hunkpapa/Isante/Yankton) shares a poem—and opens her heart—to the people of Ukraine
Read MoreInterior Secretary Deb Haaland Speaks Up On Wolves, But Is It Enough?
February 8, 2022
![A gray wolf in Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1644447388_400x300_true.jpg)
Tribes, conservation groups, even former Fish and Wildlife Service director say she should emergency re-list wolves with federal protection. Why does she balk?
Read MoreProminent Scientists Push Back Against Delisting Grizzly Bears: Op-Ed
January 13, 2022
![Grizzly 399 and one of her recent cubs](/content/articles/ic_1642096375_400x300_true.jpg)
When it comes to assessing biological recovery of grizzlies, who is better informed—people who study wildlife for a living or governors and legislators who dislike grizzlies and wolves?
Read MoreHe Went Outside To Go Inward
December 20, 2021
![Professor Creek and Mary Jane Canyon](/content/articles/ic_1640032146_400x300_true.jpg)
In 'Mary Jane Wild,' Brooke Williams seeks wildness in the West to help him make sense of a world coming apart at the seams. It's a fine read for these times
Read MoreScientists Say Gianforte's Anti-Wolf, Anti-Grizzly Policies In Montana Have No Scientific Basis
October 2, 2021 // Wildlife, Wolves, Yellowstone
![Wolves and grizzlies target of Montana's anti-predator laws](/content/articles/ic_1633189882_400x300_true.jpg)
Prominent group of wildlife professionals with 1,500 years of experience condemn Montana's new laws targeting wolves. Already pups from popular Yellowstone wolf pack have been killed
Read More‘The Modern West’ Explores How Indigenous America Confronts Pandemics
September 16, 2021 // The Modern West
![Is Indian Country showing us how to deal with Covid?](/content/articles/ic_1631835466_400x300_true.jpg)
On this journey from colonizing pilgrims infecting native people to dealing with covid fears in a fierce anti-vax state, this award-winning podcast from Wyoming Public Media shines with brave new storytelling
Read MoreOn Tracy Stone-Manning, Doing Dumb Things In Your 20s And The Game Of 'Gotcha'
August 11, 2021
![Tracy Stone-Manning, Biden's nominee to lead BLM](/content/articles/ic_1628730603_400x300_true.jpg)
As Biden's nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management heads toward a vote in the Senate, we reflect in MoJo's 'The Week That Was' on efforts to torpedo her confirmation
Read MoreA Yellowstone Wolf-Watching Guide Wonders Aloud: What Century Are We Living In?
August 5, 2021
![Montana, Idaho aim to decimate wolves, again](/content/articles/ic_1628190412_400x300_true.jpg)
In this op-ed, Phil Knight says that given new laws in Montana and Idaho designed to decimate wolf numbers, it's time to restore federal protection for lobos
Read MoreJohn Heminway: American Master Of Dramatic Earthly Storytelling
June 15, 2021
![Heminway on the trail of elephant poachers](/content/articles/ic_1623776477_400x300_true.jpg)
From writing for legendary Wyoming outdoorsman Curt Gowdy to exposing elephant ivory poachers on film, John Heminway fights for wildness by telling the truth
Read More"Antler Scouts" Enter A Brave New Era
May 11, 2021
![Every year bull elk shed their antlers](/content/articles/ic_1620750992_400x300_true.jpg)
Julie Fustanio reports from Jackson Hole on the annual frenzy of gathering shed wildlife antlers, the covid effect and scouting bringing equality to girls
Read MoreMeditations On A Congress Of Owls
April 13, 2021
![Three siblings about to face the world](/content/articles/ic_1618331325_400x300_true.jpg)
When a pair of Great Horned owls set up nest along a busy road, Tim Crawford was there to photograph—and celebrate—them. Be it human or natural community, he says it's important to give a hoot
Read MoreAs Backcountry Fills, Will Wildness Be Left Empty?
February 21, 2021
![A pair of snowmobiles that carried snowboarders into the backcountry](/content/articles/ic_1613964391_400x300_true.jpg)
In this op-ed, writer Phil Knight, a wilderness advocate for four decades, warns how Greater Yellowstone's remotest spots are being flooded by people
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