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What Can Greater Yellowstone Learn From Africa? (Remembering Garth Owen-Smith 1944-2020)
April 11, 2020
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 MoreHow Do We Rejoin The Interconnected Community Of Nature?
April 6, 2020
Naturalist turned new mom Katie Shepherd Christiansen says we ought to reflect on how we can treat wild country with more respect
Read MoreAmmon Bundy Claims Covid-19 Safety Guidelines Exploited By Government To Attain More Power
April 5, 2020
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 MoreWhen The War Finally Comes (to America's First National Park)
April 4, 2020
Ready for survivalism, are you? Yellowstone winterkeeper Steven Fuller indelicately dismantles the End-Times fantasy. There is no place humans can run to escape ourselves
Read MoreHowling, To Your Heart's Content
April 3, 2020
Westerners aren't singing like Caruso from their balconies; they're greeting each other like a pack of fellow lonesome lobos
Read MoreCoronavirus On The Doorstep: The Pandemic Reaches America’s Isolated Flyover
April 2, 2020
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
| 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
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
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
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
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 MoreDoes Interior Secretary David Bernhardt Not Understand Coronavirus Threat?
March 23, 2020
Critics condemn Trump's top public land cabinet minister for telling people to visit Yellowstone and other parks during a pandemic. UPDATE: Yellowstone and Grand Teton closed Tuesday, March 24 until further notice
Read MoreHow I Survived Two Consecutive Avalanches
March 22, 2020
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 MoreShoveling Out: The Art And Danger Of Being A Yellowstone Snowsmith
March 17, 2020
In the isolation of America's first national park, Steve Fuller and other winterkeepers carry on their age-old task of preventing roofs from collapsing
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