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In 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 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 MoreDo We Need New Maps To Protect Nature Or A New Land-Based 'Mythology'?
June 23, 2023
![Livingston, Montana and the apron of protected land around it, but for how long?](/content/articles/ic_1687541942_400x300_true.jpg)
Lee Nellis, a longtime planning guru in Greater Yellowstone, responds to Lori Ryker's call for a new blueprint in thinking about development
Read MoreLooking Past The Cliches of 'Western Art'
June 18, 2023
![Bill Stockton's portrayal of a sunset](/content/articles/ic_1686990209_400x300_true.jpg)
In her new award-winning book 'Montana Modernists,' Michele Corriel declares that artists from the West are so much more than frontier portrayals of cowboys and Indians
Read MorePondering Loneliness When You Live In A Place Some Call Shangri-la
June 16, 2023
![For most people, seeking solitude is different from living a solitary life](/content/articles/ic_1686937957_400x300_true.jpg)
People flee to the wilds seeking solitude and yet there's a crisis of human disconnection now gripping America. Therapist Timothy Tate explores what's behind it
Read MoreIn Marley's Memory, He Chooses Survival
June 12, 2023
![Orsted credits grizzlies with giving him a reason to live](/content/articles/ic_1686581827_400x300_true.jpg)
After suffering the devastating loss of his young daughter, Brad Orsted fell into bleak darkness—then the grizzly-inhabited wild country of Greater Yellowstone led him back into the light
Read More'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 MoreTo Stop A Grizzly And How Bear Spray Saved A Life
June 6, 2023
![A large male grizzly approaches the camera in Greater Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1686093007_400x300_true.jpg)
When a grizzly bear charged Keegan David, he had seconds to
react. He shared his story with Mountain Journal.
How A Citizen Is Raising Awareness About Threat Of Grand Targhee Expansion
June 1, 2023
![Crepuscular rays over the Tetons from the "quiet side"](/content/articles/ic_1685660035_400x300_true.jpg)
Howie Garber’s new book touches on the beauty of wildness
through a photographer’s lens
Why 'Yellowstone' The TV Show Ain't The Real Montana (Or Wyoming, Or The West)
May 31, 2023
![Rowland's grandparents' place, the Arbuckle Ranch near Ekalaka, Montana](/content/articles/ic_1684640922_400x300_true.jpg)
Montana author Russell Rowland talks about divides shaking the West to its core. They go beyond rural-urban, newcomer-old timer, mountain-prairie and prosperity vs. despair
Read MoreMontana's Flaring White Nationalism Prominent In New Ray Ring Novel
May 23, 2023
![Ring on the trail of his plot](/content/articles/ic_1684681432_400x300_true.jpg)
Former journalist who worked for High Country News in Bozeman, unfurls a murder mystery that flows from the gridiron of college football and interracial relationship
Read MoreFamous Jackson Hole Grizzly 399 Wows Again, But Now What?
May 18, 2023
![Model of Motherhood: 399 and her new cub out of hibernation](/content/articles/ic_1684459521_400x300_true.jpg)
Emerging with her 18th cub as part of a historic legendary life, 399 is 27, long in the tooth and still transforming our perceptions of grizzlies. Now it's our turn to be on best behavior
Read MoreHow Development Forced Bozeman’s Namesake Creek Underground
May 10, 2023
![Do you see it? What is the water and land mosaic telling us?](/content/articles/ic_1683764443_400x300_true.jpg)
The plight of Bozeman Creek is an indicator of how the health of waterways in Greater Yellowstone and the West are facing a multitude of damaging threats
Read MoreAnatomy Of A Wake-Up Call
May 9, 2023
![Spruance, conservative angler turned advocate for saving wildness](/content/articles/ic_1655702744_400x300_true.jpg)
After witnessing the impact of Vail on nature, Tom Spruance, conservative businessman, felt compelled to rise up in defense of Greater Yellowstone. He says others should, too
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