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Stop The Stalling: Montana Ought To Have A Public Bison Herd
April 15, 2020
![Wild bison called Montana home for millennia](/content/articles/ic_1586984394_400x300_true.jpg)
In this op-ed, conservationist Jim Bailey says doing what's right for a state wildlife icon needs to prevail
Read MoreChronic Wasting Disease: America's Homegrown Contagion That Lumbers On Four Hooves
April 12, 2020
![Acronym for a series emerging zoosis (disease)](/content/articles/ic_1586653992_400x300_true.jpg)
Forget, for a moment, Covid-19 and bats. Epidemiologists say we need to take seriously this wildlife version of Mad Cow rapidly spreading across the country. First in a new investigative series
Read MoreThe Spirit World Is Never Apart
April 7, 2020
![Red Elk: count your natural blessings](/content/articles/ic_1586282517_400x300_true.jpg)
How does poet Lois Red Elk find grounding in challenging times? By honoring the soulful sustenance of the creator's gifts
Read MoreAmmon Bundy Claims Covid-19 Safety Guidelines Exploited By Government To Attain More Power
April 5, 2020
![Like father, like son: Cliven and Ammon Bundy](/content/articles/ic_1586116552_400x300_true.jpg)
Betsy Gaines Quammen wrote a book about the Bundys. In Part 2 of an interview with Rebecca Watters, she discusses militants, the search for truth and conservation-minded Mormons
Read MoreCoronavirus On The Doorstep: The Pandemic Reaches America’s Isolated Flyover
April 2, 2020
![Doctor from another time fighting a pandemic](/content/articles/ic_1585335980_400x300_true.jpg)
In a real-life potboiler, Sarah DeOpsomer pens a personal journal about Covid-19's arrival in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and waiting for her own (positive) test results to come in
Read MoreThe West In A Time Of Conflict: The Bundys, Public Lands And Covid-19
March 30, 2020
![Cliven Bundy](/content/articles/ic_1585603001_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Journal columnist Rebecca Watters interviews Betsy Gaines Quammen about her new book 'American Zion' |
When The Government Tries To Think Big
March 29, 2020
![Bison in Yellowstone's Lamar Valley](/content/articles/ic_1585514075_400x300_true.jpg)
Thirty years ago, the Greater Yellowstone's first attempt at having a grand vision to protect the ecosystem turned into a whimper. What happened? A first-hand account from a civil servant who was there
Read MoreHow Can 'We' Better Live In Panic-Stricken Times?
March 28, 2020
![Words at Story Mill Park in Bozeman](/content/articles/ic_1585414600_400x300_true.jpg)
It's normal to feel stressed out and alone, so what can we do about it? Timothy Tate, Bozeman psychotherapist, shares a few thoughts about creating the transformation we need
Read MoreTom Brokaw Says More Than Ever We Need A National Leader
March 25, 2020
![How would FDR address nation about coronavirus?](/content/articles/ic_1585168194_400x300_true.jpg)
Legendary NBC newsman and longtime Greater Yellowstone resident reflects on values of 'The Greatest Generation'
Read MoreOf God And Guns: How The Sagebrush Rebellion Turned Into A Hotbed Of Armed Modern Radicals
March 24, 2020
![A cowboy petroglyph?](/content/articles/ic_1585089358_400x300_true.jpg)
In this excerpt from Betsy Gaines Quammen's new book 'American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West,' the author explores how Utah became the center of anti-federalism
Read MoreHow I Survived Two Consecutive Avalanches
March 22, 2020
![Rescuers in the first moments of reaching Ken Scott](/content/articles/ic_1583700128_400x300_true.jpg)
Buried for more than an hour and resigned to the worst, a skier recounts his dramatic rescue. It's a tale especially important for those headed into the backcountry
Read MoreYellowstone Always On His Mind
March 13, 2020
![Yochim spent his last hours devoted to Yellowstone's protection](/content/articles/ic_1584136993_400x300_true.jpg)
Until his last breath, former ranger, hiker and nature advocate Mike Yochim raced to finish a book aimed at protecting America's first national park
Read MoreWill Montana’s Senate Race Become A National Bellwether?
February 24, 2020
![Cora Neumann out for a walk in Paradise Valley](/content/articles/ic_1582528385_400x300_true.jpg)
Cora Neumann, a first-time candidate who worked with First Ladies on both sides of the political aisle, aims to unseat one of the richest lawmakers on Capitol Hill
Read MoreGreen Rebuttal: Some Advocates Say Gallatin Forest Partnership Plan Sells Mountains, Wildlife Short
February 21, 2020
![The Wild Gallatins as they stretch north from Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1582332111_400x300_true.jpg)
Joe Scalia says conservationists should rally around better vision for Gallatins that holds Forest Service's feet to the fire and results in more Wilderness
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