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Mother Earth Never Lets Us Forget Who We Are

January 7, 2020

The notorious Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Poet Lois Red Elk offers two works that speak of reverence for ancestry, family, culture, spirit and Mitakuye Oyasin
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Yellowstone Time: Of Personal Transformation Set To Nature's Rhythms

December 31, 2019

The winterkeeper and his medium
Off the beaten path, Steven Fuller reveals the national park unknown to most of the masses
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The Yellowstone Winterkeeper Cometh, Again

December 30, 2019

A Fuller family member on the fractured ice of Yellowstone Lake
Legendary 'winterkeeper' Steven Fuller returns with his MoJo column about life in American wonderland
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Are We Giving The Wild Gallatins The Visionary Protection They Really Deserve?

December 29, 2019

The Buffalo Horn drainage in the Wild Gallatins
By the wildlife they hold, the Gallatin Mountains are wilder than most national parks in the Lower 48. So why are the Forest Service and enviro groups balking at more extensive protections?
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25 Years Of Re-living With Wolves In Yellowstone

December 23, 2019

Canis lupus headed for Colorado?
Park Service veteran Norm Bishop tried to prepare citizens in the Yellowstone region for wolves. Today he reflects on what we've learned as Colorado considers bringing Canis lupus back
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Beauty As Antidote For Living In Heavy Times

December 20, 2019

Sinopah, crown jewel of the Two Medicine area
For painter Barbara Rusmore, the restorative power of nature is a catalyst for art and advocacy
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Imperiled Sustenance?

December 10, 2019

Hunting as Culture
Poet Lois Red Elk shares her concern about how Chronic Wasting Disease may affect the animals rooted deep in indigenous culture
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Are We Ready For The Coming Feral Hog Invasion?

December 5, 2019

Feral hogs morphing back to "wild" pigs
Seriously, while Montana, Wyoming and Idaho are currently free of rogue swine "herds," they're headed this way
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A Grand New Book Honors One Of The Mightiest Places In The American West

November 28, 2019

A book to take your breath away
'Voices of Yellowstone's Capstone: A Narrative Atlas of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness' is a must-have trove of words pictures and maps
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In Home Land

November 28, 2019

Crow leaders in 1881
Long before the Absaroka-Beartooths became a federal wilderness and before Yellowstone was called 'wonderland,'  they were home ground to the Crow. An essay by Shane Doyle
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Chronic Wasting Disease Reaches Wild Elk In Montana

November 25, 2019

A cow elk in Yellowstone
For the first time ever, CWD has been confirmed in Montana wapiti. How might it affect America's most iconic concentration of big game animals?
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Close Encounters Of The Avian Kind

November 21, 2019

Mountain bluebird
As Phil Knight writes, human-animal curiosity and contact extends both ways
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Salmon: A Debate Over Dams And The Cause Of A Great Fish's Decline

November 21, 2019

Salmon: are we sanctioning their extinction?
Pacific Northwest salmon populations are collapsing. What is the best way to resuscitate them? Two experts debate.
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Have You Heard The Tales Of A Trickster Spider And Porcupine?

November 7, 2019

A porcupine's spirit lives on
In this season of transition, Lois Red Elk reminds how humankind is reflected in the stories of wamakhashka
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