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Beholding The Golden Green Goose That Hatched One Of The Richest Counties in America
January 2, 2018
Teton County, Wyo. Commissioner Mark Newcomb examines the cost—and dividends— of protecting a wild American ecosystem
Read MoreLet Heaven And Nature Sing: Merry Christmas From Mountain Journal
December 24, 2017
At Yuletide, Sue Cedarholm paints a glowing elk antler archway in Jackson, Wyoming's downtown square
Read MoreBeholding Creation: Counting Birds At Christmas
December 23, 2017 // Culture, Wildlife
MoJo's Intrepid Nature Columnist Susan Marsh Carries On A Grand American Holiday Tradition
Read MoreThe Killing Fields Await Yellowstone Bison Once Again In Montana
December 15, 2017 // Yellowstone
More than 10,000 Yellowstone bison have been killed based on a faulty premise. Like the worry over Chronic Wasting Disease, this controversy has connections to Wyoming's feedgrounds
Read MoreSunrise At Glory In A Time Of Climate Change
December 12, 2017
Painter Sue Cedarholm's watercolor features Jackson Hole's most beloved local winter landmark—and thoughts of what is yet to come
Read MoreThe Undeniable Value of Wolves, Bears, Lions And Coyotes In Battling Disease
December 11, 2017
Part 4 in Mountain Journal's series on Chronic Wasting Disease and the threat it poses to America's wildest ecosystem. By killing predators, are states that still cling to Little Red Riding Hood shooting themselves in the foot?
Read MoreEveryone Has An Opinion About Government But Many Citizens Would Flunk Civics
December 11, 2017
In this provocative column by Susan Marsh, she wonders aloud: If citizens are so ignorant about lots of things, are we expecting too much in asking them to know and care about public lands, wildlife and nature?
Read MoreWhat Does It Mean To Be An Animal Person?
November 22, 2017 // Hunting
Marc Bekoff, a leading figure in the American animal rights movement, sounds off on Wyoming's proposed hunt of grizzly bears and emerging science revealing the emotions and intelligence of non-human beings
Read MoreIs Greater Yellowstone Really Ready To Confront Its Future?
November 22, 2017 // Public Lands, Ranching, The New West
From concerns about population growth and climate change to wildlife diseases and rising levels of recreation, FutureWest hosts a symposium focused on the future of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Read MoreChronic Wasting Disease Strikes Montana And Continues Its March On Yellowstone
November 16, 2017 // Chronic Wasting Disease, Public Lands, Wildlife, Yellowstone
Part 3 in Mountain Journal's ongoing series on Chronic Wasting Disease. With ultra-deadly CWD now in Montana wildlife for first time, critics say public officials are demonstrating irresponsibility by having no coordinated plan for confronting the disease
Read MoreThe Land Is Big, We Are Small, The Potential Perils Many
November 10, 2017
Sometimes Art Puts The Scale Of People In Perspective. In Watercolor Diary, Sue Cedarholm Goes To Avalanche Canyon
Read MoreWhat Does It Take To Create A Conservationist?
November 6, 2017
Retired Forest Service Wilderness Manager Susan Marsh contemplates what inspires wilderness users to become wilderness protectors.
Read MoreOn The Loose: A Bull Moose In Camera And Brush
November 3, 2017 // Big Art of Nature
In Watercolor Diary, Sue Cedarholm offers two takes on America's largest member of the deer family
Read MoreWhen An Off-Duty Game Warden Kills A Grizzly
November 1, 2017 // Grizzly Bears, Hunting, The New West
After a mother grizzly with three cubs is shot in Wyoming, critics wonder why the person, who invoked self-defense, didn't use bear spray?
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