In 1968, writer Toby Thompson set out for Hibbing, Minnesota on a quest to find out how Robert Zimmerman became Bob Dylan. He met the legend's high school sweetheart who inspired a Dylan song
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He 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 MoreA Late Bloomer Writes Her Wild Heart
September 20, 2021 // Writing About Nature
![Carolyn Hopper in Glacier Park](/content/articles/ic_1632192490_400x300_true.jpg)
With two memoirs and a new book of nature poetry under her belt, Carolyn Keith Hopper has come a long way from growing up in the hometown of Thoreau, Emerson and Hawthorne
Read MoreA Storm Front Moves Into Red State Wyoming
September 14, 2021 // Politics, Wyoming
![Is Wyoming's referendum on Trump tearing Republicans apart?](/content/articles/ic_1631597116_400x300_true.jpg)
Liz Cheney says she is fighting for truth and country but why do facts often evade her when it comes to honest discourse about environmental issues? That's a topic for MoJo's The Week That Is
Read MoreHow A Mega-Mine And A 'Law Without A Brain' Were Defeated On Yellowstone's Back Door
August 26, 2021 // Activism, Mining, Yellowstone
![Henderson Mountain would have been sacrificed to mega gold mining](/content/articles/ic_1630016652_400x300_true.jpg)
A quarter century after a controversial gold mine was stopped thanks to presidential intervention, one of the green Davids who battled a powerful Canadian giant reflects on the longshot victory
Read MoreLast Trek Of The Human Wolverine
August 17, 2021
![Until the end he had a twinkle in his eyes for wild country](/content/articles/ic_1629220731_400x300_true.jpg)
Joe Gutkoski, a legendary American conservationist, has passed away. Is his style of relentless advocacy for wildlife and wild places the only hope Greater Yellowstone has for keeping its nature from being tamed?
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 MoreHow Do We Lift Our Mental Spirits?
June 3, 2021
![The great outdoors: good for body and soul](/content/articles/ic_1622767022_400x300_true.jpg)
Timothy Tate writes about society's reluctance to prioritize mental health as a major public concern. Ironically, the challenge exists in a region filled with nature's healing abundance
Read MoreStudy: Wolves Bring Fewer Car Wrecks, Save Money And Human Lives
May 26, 2021
![What's the real value of wolves?](/content/articles/ic_1622082600_400x300_true.jpg)
New research paper raises tantalizing questions about value of wolves in Wisconsin, especially as western states plot their 21st century re-extermination
Read MoreIs 'Wildland Conservation' That Does Not Emphasize Wildlife Really Conservation?
April 28, 2021
![Well-known artists, writers fill volume edited by Katie Christiansen](/content/articles/ic_1620225425_400x300_true.jpg)
Delightful new 'Artist's Field Guide To Yellowstone' offers inspiring reasons to care about protecting wildlife in Lower 48's famous bioregion
Read MorePitched Agony
February 28, 2021
![Eddy Prugh battles for the ball and a place on a team](/content/articles/ic_1614571470_400x300_true.jpg)
For a young athlete, is it better to chase a spot at the top and fall short, or make the grade then get cut? In his ongoing series, Eddy Prugh's journey of hard knocks continues
Read MoreWaiting For Elk To Disappear From 'The Last Hundred Acres'
February 23, 2021
![The imperiled southwest corner of Montana's Gallatin Valley](/content/articles/ic_1614131568_400x300_true.jpg)
Greater Yellowstone resident Rob Sisson pens an essay about his sorrow in watching a wapiti migration route vanish on the outskirts of Bozeman, Montana
Read MoreThe Future Staring Us Back: Getting Serious About Climate Change
January 26, 2021
![Climate could transform Northern Rockies](/content/articles/ic_1611640375_400x300_true.jpg)
How is Greater Yellowstone being impacted? A panel of distinguished experts will provide answers Wednesday as part of Big Sky Big Ideas Fest. You are invited
Read MoreThe Pall Of Our Unrest
September 19, 2020
!['Ascent,' a painting by John Felsing](/content/articles/ic_1600544920_400x300_true.jpg)
Terry Tempest Williams featured in The New York Times reading her 'obituary for the land.' She implores us: Let it not be true
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