Amid these contentious times, John Potter wonders whose values are being preached, taught and expressed?
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Making Hay Over The West's Draconian Water Laws
August 4, 2021
Cartoonist John Potter asks: does it really make common sense to de-water streams and prioritize alfalfa-growing for cows when severe drought affects many more species?
Read MoreIn The American West, These New Job Prospects Are Burning Hot
July 21, 2021
In his latest MoJo cartoon, John Potter suggests that less precipitation, rising temps and super droughts are making current notions of 'forest health' obsolete
Read MoreSlaying Wolves To 'Save' The Elk?
July 14, 2021
As Montana and Idaho move to re-decimate their wild wolf populations, MoJo cartoonist John Potter calls out their faulty argument
Read MoreDear Senator Johnson
July 8, 2021
Want to know what cartoonist John Potter thinks about the Wisconsin lawmaker's claim that climate change is a bunch of BS? As the West scorches, Potter offers a reply
Read MoreThe Climate Change Neros Of Capitol Hill
June 30, 2021
For those elected officials who continue to deny the scientific facts about climate change, John Potter believes a reckoning is coming and history will judge them harshly
Read MoreBears Again Paying The Price When People Behave Badly
June 23, 2021
John Potter wonders aloud: what teaching moment is being squandered as wildlife managers heavy-handedly respond to grizzly bear mother "Felicia" and cubs on Wyoming's Togwotee Pass?
Read MoreTrout Barbs: Read Their Lips
June 9, 2021
Cartoonist John Potter considers the growing juggernaut of Western fly fishing from the perspective of anglers and their sentient freshwater quarry
Read MoreAll Aboard The Bustling New Trails To "Nowhere"
June 2, 2021
Everybody is demanding access to Greater Yellowstone's finite wildlands but who is defending the wildlife that calls it home? A new cartoon by John Potter
Read MoreScary Bear Tales
May 26, 2021
Grizzly oral traditions: What MoJo cartoonist John Potter overheard at a Greater Yellowstone backcountry campsite
Read MoreThe Next Endangered Species in Hip Mountain Towns: Local People
May 19, 2021
As greedy landlords convert homes and apartments into pricey short-term rentals for tourists, many longtime residents are feeling exiled from their own communities. John Potter sizes it up
Read MoreThings That Can't Be Re-Created
May 12, 2021
After a climber in Utah brazenly bolted a route across ancient indigenous petroglyphs, believing they were "graffiti," MoJo cartoonist John Potter says it spells only one thing
Read MoreAre There Enough Park Rangers To Go Around?
May 5, 2021
With record crowds poised to descend on Yellowstone and Grand Teton, cartoonist John Potter laments how rangers every year have to do more with less
Read MoreIs 'Wildland Conservation' That Does Not Emphasize Wildlife Really Conservation?
April 28, 2021
Delightful new 'Artist's Field Guide To Yellowstone' offers inspiring reasons to care about protecting wildlife in Lower 48's famous bioregion
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