SHIFT can still have real impact but only if it is willing to shift itself
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Why A Group In Jackson Hole, Devoted To Unbridled Adventure, Conservation And Diversity, Is Under Fire
July 23, 2019
George Bird Grinnell: His Impact As "The Father of American Conservation" Written Across Today's West
July 22, 2019
John Taliaferro's "Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West" is epic, entertaining and important
Read MoreA Native Ponders The Irony Of 'Go Back Where You Came From'
July 21, 2019
Lois Red Elk, 500-generation Dakota/Lakota, writes about getting her 'Cobell check' and 500 years of injustice
Read MoreIs Geotagging Putting A Bullseye On The Last Best Places?
July 16, 2019
Photographs and videos being shared on social media are causing hideaways to get overrun. So what can be done?
Read MoreWyoming's Bet On Coal Is Now Busting The State
July 9, 2019
Cursing at the wind? The more that its elected officials dig in their heels for coal, the further behind Wyoming falls in people and durable job creation
Read MoreWe Need Wilderness With No Apologies And No Regrets
July 4, 2019
A veteran of the American Wilderness movement says the debate over protecting the Gallatin Mountain Range near Yellowstone should not be a means for rationalizing further loss of wildlands
Read MoreThe Wild West: How Do We Deal With Its Rapid Transformation?
June 19, 2019
Mountain Journal intern Jordan Payne gets a crash course on the New West and titanic forces shaping its future
Read MoreCam Sholly's Agenda For Safeguarding Yellowstone
June 10, 2019
New superintendent of America's oldest national park lays out priorities, discussing everything from grizzlies, wolves and bison to snarled road traffic and other threats
Read MoreSummer Boot Camp In Greater Yellowstone
June 10, 2019
Meet Mountain Journal intern Jordan Payne. He's bringing fresh young eyes in writing about America's most iconic wildland ecosystem
Read MoreCollapse Of Salmon And Steelhead A Dam Shame
May 30, 2019
As Tom France writes, Congressman Mike Simpson of Idaho emerges as an unlikely hero and he believes it's time to act
Read MoreWhen Raptors Visit
May 20, 2019
Two poems by Lois Red Elk remind that neither we, nor animals, are "others" in the natural world
Read MoreNew Wyoming Hunting Group Takes The Old Guard To Task
May 17, 2019
Mountain Pursuit, founded by former journalist and fifth-generation Wyomingite Rob Shaul, expresses outrage over, among other things, the brutal treatment of coyotes and decline of fair chase in hunting
Read MoreGut-Check Time: Navigating The Ups And Downs Of Dramatic Change
May 15, 2019
How can some western communities and wildlands save their essence during booms, how do others prevent themselves from blowing away? A gathering in Bozeman will address these poles of the 'New West'
Read MoreBig Guns Want 230,000 Acres Of Gallatins Near Yellowstone Protected As Wilderness
May 14, 2019
Founder of Patagonia joins former U.S. Interior Secretary and dozens of eminent scientists who say capital "W" essential to safeguarding wildlife in core of Greater Yellowstone
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