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What Does It Take To Create A Conservationist?
November 6, 2017
![Photo courtesy Michele Parent](/content/articles/ic_1509999739_400x300_true.jpg)
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
![A bull moose in Jackson Hole, photograph by Sue Cedarholm](/content/articles/ic_1509682688_400x300_true.jpg)
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
![A sow grizzly in Wyoing with three cubs. (Thomas D. Mangelsen photo)](/content/articles/ic_1509560783_400x300_true.jpg)
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?
Read MoreChasing Summits And Running Toward The Sun
October 31, 2017 // Community, Community Change
![The path into wild can lead us to ourselves and, in turn, knowing who we are helps us to better appreciate wild places, Timothy Tate says.](/content/articles/ic_1509482717_400x300_true.jpg)
One week after Timothy Tate wrote provocatively about tragedy in the mountains, the MoJo columnist pens another on humility—and the ethic of using, but not using up, the places that personally inspire
Read MoreTo Live Or Die In Bear Country: Counting The Seconds In Your Grizzly Moment Of Truth
October 29, 2017 // Grizzly Bears, Hunting
![When seconds matter, are you ready?](/content/articles/ic_1618007938_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Journal Takes A Deep Dive Into Grizzly Attacks, Bear Spray, And What You Need To Know.
Read MoreLessons From A Hunter Twice Attacked By A Grizzly Bear
October 26, 2017 // Grizzly Bears, Hunting
![The surival of grizzlies in Greater Yellowstone depends more on the behavior of bears rather than people. Photo by Thomas D. Mangelsen (mangelsen.com)](/content/articles/ic_1509058465_400x300_true.jpg)
Todd Orr's misadventure with a sow grizzly offers insight for anyone—hunter or hiker—heading into bear country. Biggest take home: bear spray works
Read MoreStanding In Reverence Of Yellowstone's Grand Canyon—And Thomas Moran
October 26, 2017 // Big Art of Nature
![The Lower Falls From The North Rim by Sue Cedarholm](/content/articles/ic_1508965312_400x300_true.jpg)
Okay, so I realize it’s an audacious thing to even dare to paint a
landmark. I get it. In his first
outing, Thomas Moran...
Read MoreTory Taylor's Search For The Elusive Sheepeaters
October 25, 2017 // Book Review, Culture, The New West
![William Henry Jackson's famous photograph of the Sheepeaters](/content/articles/ic_1508893223_400x300_true.jpg)
In His New Book, The Retired Outfitter/Guide From Dubois, Wyoming Picks Up The Trail Of Greater Yellowstone's Oldest And Most Mysterious Mountain Inhabitants
Read MoreHolding The Line On Wild: Is The U.S. Forest Service Up To The Challenge?
October 19, 2017 // Forest Service, Outdoor Recreation, Wilderness
![Enchantment Basin from Prusik Pass in Alpine Lakes Wilderness by Jeffrey Pang](/content/articles/ic_1508467113_400x300_true.jpg)
Susan Marsh spent her career protecting wilderness and trying to manage human pressures on America's public lands. Now this veteran of the Forest Service ponders whether her storied agency has the courage to confront the increasing impacts of outdoor recreation.
Read MoreVisual Delights Spring From Wildfires Past In A Forest Reborn
October 17, 2017 // Big Art of Nature
![From a line of burned trees a forest reborn](/content/articles/ic_1508298366_400x300_true.jpg)
As has often happened in her quest to paint one new watercolor every day, artist Sue Cedarholm goes looking for one thing and finds another.
Read MoreAmerica's National Elk Refuge: A ‘Miasmic Zone Of Life-Threatening Diseases'
October 17, 2017 // Public Lands, Science, Wildlife
![Will the National Elk Refuge become ground zero for catastrophic disease? Photo courtesy National Elk Refuge](/content/articles/ic_1508194113_400x300_true.jpg)
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is known internationally for its wildlife. With the arrival of Chronic Wasting Disease looming, the epicenter of a deadly outbreak would be western Wyoming and the home to America's "national elk herd". Part 2 in Mountain Journal's series looking at the coming wildlife plague.
Read MoreWill "Stay Wild" Help Build An Army Of Committed Landscape Protectors?
October 10, 2017
![Still images taken from Jackson Hole Travel & Tourism Board's YouTube video "Jackson Hole Winter 2017-18 : Stay Wild".](/content/articles/ic_1507772714_400x300_true.jpg)
As public lands cope with an onset of industrial-strength outdoor recreation, promotors of a new ad campaign in Jackson Hole claim their ultimate intent is to grow conservation
Read MoreGeorge Carlson's Perpetual State Of Wonder
October 9, 2017 // Big Art of Nature, MoJo Profile
!["Sentinel Bluffs" by George Carlson](/content/articles/ic_1507532406_400x300_true.jpg)
George Carlson is considered one of the best contemporary nature painters in the world. Mountain Journal visited the American master at his studio and took a deep dive into his reverence for wild landscapes
Read MoreGreater Yellowstone's Coming Plague
October 8, 2017 // Chronic Wasting Disease, Public Lands, Science, Wildlife
![Thomas Mangelsen's photograph "Winter Herd" portraying thousands of elk on the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming](/content/articles/ic_1507513504_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Journal's special multi-part series on Chronic Wasting Disease and the potential dangers it poses to Greater Yellowstone's unparalleled wildlife and the specter of risk to human health. Part 1: Greater Yellowstone's Coming Plague
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