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Robert Staffanson On What It Means To Be A Real Cowboy
April 29, 2023 // Culture, Guest Commentary, Politics, Ranching
![Bob Staffanson on a cattle drive.](/content/articles/ic_1502685281_400x300_true.jpg)
Not the kind of wrangler you see on 'Yellowstone': Staffanson, a Montana ranch kid, re-invented himself twice—as symphony conductor and Native rights activist
Read MoreMeet Jessica Wiese, Mountain Journal's New Executive Director
April 7, 2023
![Jessie brings dynamic combo of love for outdoors, wild places and rural Westerners](/content/articles/ic_1680895628_400x300_true.jpg)
With a background in science and private land conservation, Wiese says the time is now to rally for Greater Yellowstone as the region comes under increasing human pressure
Read MoreThe Gray Ghosts Of Change: Can The Grizzly 'Bear Tree' Be Saved?
April 3, 2023
![A grizzly on the hunt for food moves through a Northern Rockies forest](/content/articles/ic_1680462909_400x300_true.jpg)
The whitebark pine tree is receiving federal protection at same time states are pushing to remove grizzlies from imperiled list. A story about how fate of trees and bears is intertwined
Are Western Mountain Towns Ready For The Coming Flames?
March 21, 2023
![Can't happen here? The Bridger Foothills Fire was Bozeman's WUI wake-up call](/content/articles/ic_1679357907_400x300_true.jpg)
Rural sprawl is expanding the "wildland-urban interface." It is elevating the costs and perils of dealing with wildfire, and taxpayers are footing the bill. Part 2 in our ongoing series
Read MoreProtected Islands In The Stream Help Keep Mighty Yellowstone Wild
March 15, 2023
![Yellowstone magic: vision of protected islands in a healthy wild braided river](/content/articles/ic_1678849187_400x300_true.jpg)
Investing in nature = smart ecosystem thinking: Beartooth Group and state of Montana preserve pair of wildlife-rich islands that now provides legal access to those who savor Yellowstone River by boat
Read MoreMayor Ghosts Nature In Bozeman's Annual State Of The City Address
March 1, 2023
![Elk find solitude on an undeveloped hillside in the Gallatin Valley outside Bozeman](/content/articles/ic_1677710567_400x300_true.jpg)
It's strange how so few elected officials in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem are willing to speak out for our world-class wildlife. And that does not bode well
Read MoreMontana, In The Wake Of 'Yellowstone' and 'A River Runs Through It'
February 27, 2023
![Is all the attention destroying last, best places?](/content/articles/ic_1677094311_400x300_true.jpg)
Thirty years after Norman Maclean's novella was brought to big screen, many are lamenting how it, and the TV melodrama 'Yellowstone' have fueled an inundation of western Montana
Read More'Real' Wolves, Yellowstone and Humans’ Place in the Discussion Revealed at ‘Night of the Wolves’
January 12, 2023
![Conrad Fisher of the Northern Cheyenne/Tsėhéstáno and Shane Doyle regale panelists and the crowd](/content/articles/ic_1673574153_400x300_true.jpg)
MoJo hosts three preeminent wolf experts at The Ellen Theatre, bestows first-ever Conservation Courage awards at sold-out event
Read MoreA True New West Grizzly Bear Dilemma
January 12, 2023
![Grizzly bears pass through a ranch in Tom Miner Basin](/content/articles/ic_1673541894_400x300_true.jpg)
Up Tom Miner Basin near Yellowstone, neighbors are grappling with how to prevent a wildlife miracle from being loved to death
Read MoreTwilight Of The Yellowstone Winterkeepers
December 24, 2022 // Yellowstone
![Portrait of Steven Fuller by Neal Herbert/National Park Service](/content/articles/ic_1515017835_400x300_true.jpg)
With 50 years of solitude, Steven Fuller is a living legend in Yellowstone and an endangered 21st-century icon
Read MoreThe Story Behind A Coyote Painting Titled ‘Mayday!’
December 21, 2022
![A painting that causes us to take notice, if we dare](/content/articles/ic_1671507656_400x300_true.jpg)
Artist George Carlson encountered a disturbing scene along a rural county road in the West. To process the experience he created one of the most powerful works of his career
Read MoreWhite-tailed Deer Buck With CWD Confirmed Near Bozeman
December 14, 2022
![CWD is now on the doorstep of Bozeman](/content/articles/ic_1671071895_400x300_true.jpg)
As CWD spreads across the West, Wyoming still operates elk feedgrounds and states take aim at disease-fighting predators
Read MoreFrom Humble Roots to Global Green Giants
December 12, 2022
![Friends with vision in the Tetons: Jane Goodall and Yvon Chouinard](/content/articles/ic_1670888487_400x300_true.jpg)
Yvon Chouinard and Jane Goodall exude a spirit of selfless wildlife conservation that put Jackson Hole and Greater Yellowstone on the map
Read MoreOp-Ed: Citizens Reject POWDR's Holland Lake Lodge Expansion
December 6, 2022
![Holland Lake dons her fall colors](/content/articles/ic_1670346979_400x300_true.jpg)
Members of Save Holland Lake praise the Forest Service for denying Utah developer's plan to bring industrial tourism to shores of lake set in important wildlife habitat
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