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Game Farms Should Warrant Greater Scrutiny In Age Of Disease Pandemics
April 21, 2020
![Captive deer bred to grow huge antlers](/content/articles/ic_1587521381_400x300_true.jpg)
In this op-ed, Wayne Pacelle calls out a controversial industry, profiting off of captive wildlife, that has been linked to spread of Chronic Wasting Disease
Read MoreStop 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 MoreAre America's Greatest Wildlife Migrations Being Sacrificed To Fossil Fuels?
April 14, 2020
![Pronghorn on the move for survival](/content/articles/ic_1586899892_400x300_true.jpg)
Writer and ecologist Franz Camenzind investigates why some of Greater Yellowstone's biggest animal wonders are imperiled. Part 1 in an ongoing series Epic Journeys—Views from the Front Lines of America's Greatest Wildlife Migrations
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 MoreWhat Can Greater Yellowstone Learn From Africa? (Remembering Garth Owen-Smith 1944-2020)
April 11, 2020
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From sport hunting iconic species to giving local communities ownership over wildlife, Namibia may do things that drive some American conservationists crazy, but it has slowed and reversed the decimation of wildlife
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 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
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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 MoreInside The Storm
March 20, 2020
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A young Italian sends a warning to his contemporary Millennial and Gen Z peers in the Northern Rockies
Read MoreCrazy Horse (Tȟašúŋke Witkó) And The Moon Of Hard Times
March 1, 2020
![What are the things that give us grounding?](/content/articles/ic_1583122288_400x300_true.jpg)
Lois Red Elk writes of a warrior, her father and how humans need to dream themselves whole
Read MoreThe Gravity Of Grief And Pressure In Extreme Outdoor Sports
February 29, 2020
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Pondering the toll, Bozeman climbing legend Conrad Anker and psychotherapist Timothy Tate featured in latest New Yorker Magazine profile
Read MoreAfter Yellowstone, Dreams Of Rewilding Scotland With Wolves And Lynx?
February 26, 2020
![The idea of predator eradication was a European import](/content/articles/ic_1582768158_400x300_true.jpg)
In the absence of predators, deer numbers exploded. After environmentalist George Monbiot killed one for population control, animal rights activists howled
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