Charlie Quimby reviews Nathaniel Popkin's thought-provoking new book which asks: How and why are we programmed to gluttonously consume Earth's resources, including wildness?
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Meditations On A Congress Of Owls
April 13, 2021
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 MoreWhat Toll On Wildness When Humans Want It All?
April 7, 2021
MoJo's The Week That Is: When it comes to recreational impacts, we have to look ourselves in the mirror—and that's probably why we deny we are displacing wildlife
Read MoreThe Grounding Ways Of Rituals In Nature
April 6, 2021
We've all been squeezed into tinier mental spaces by Covid. Timothy Tate says we can find center again by letting ourselves be vulnerable to quiet re-connection
Read MoreWildlife's Most Ferocious Predator: Human Sprawl
March 31, 2021
Robert Liberty is a nationally-respected expert on smart—and dumb—ways communities grow. The patterns of development outside of Yellowstone Park alarm him. But hope is not lost. Yet.
Read MoreElk River Writers Workshop Brings Stellar Guest Faculty To Paradise Valley
March 29, 2021
The 2021 conference, set for Chico Hot Springs, will explore not only the craft of writing but contemporary issues. An interview with the Elk River Writers Workshop Director CMarie Fuhrman
Read MoreCovid Reflections: Before The World Shut Down Sarah DeOpsomer Got Sick
March 28, 2021
A year after the pandemic reached the interior West and brought the globe to a standstill, this Bozeman resident survived her own brush with the virus. Now she looks back
Read MoreIs Gallatin County Willing To Sacrifice Its Namesake Elk To Rural Sprawl?
March 24, 2021
The amazing images of Holly Pippel, a nature photographer from Gallatin Gateway, Montana, remind us what's at stake as Bozeman's boom threatens the persistence of wildlife
Read MoreFour Bold Ideas To Save Greater Yellowstone (And Certain To Make Some Squirm)
March 15, 2021
Lee Nellis first wrote in Mountain Journal about the failures of conservation. Now he wants to provoke a real discussion about how not to become Colorado. Are we ready to take aversive action?
Read MoreWildlife: The Local 'Stakeholders' Often Given No Voice Or Forgotten
March 14, 2021
In this op-ed Anne Millbrooke says that Wilderness provides plenty of things becoming ever rarer and which money can't replace simply in the modern world
Read MoreAre Hunters Still Leading Wildlife Conservation in America?
March 8, 2021
In MoJo's The Week That Is, Wilkinson and Sadler talk about how declines in hunter numbers nationwide are creating budget challenges for states
Read MoreWhat's Our Role In Saving Greater Yellowstone?
March 1, 2021
Every one of us, who feels connected to America's 'wildlife Serengeti,' needs to rally or the wildness we treasure here will be lost
Read MoreWhen Wild Nature Enters Our Dreams
February 28, 2021
From visions to daydreams to the imagery that visits us in slumber, dreamscapes can reveal much about ourselves and how we're navigating the world
Read MoreWill Deb Haaland Make History Or Be Stonewalled?
February 22, 2021
In The Week That Is, Wilkinson and Sadler talk Interior Secretaries going back to the controversial tenure of Sagebrush Rebel James Watt of Wyoming
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