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30 X 30: Biden's Bureaucratic Bogeyman Or A Real Plan To Curb Climate Change?
June 7, 2021
![Wildlife movement fits into national climate change strategy](/content/articles/ic_1623110396_400x300_true.jpg)
Protecting healthy wildlife ecosystems like Greater Yellowstone is a central thrust of strategy. MoJo's Tom Sadler and Todd Wilkinson provide an overview
Read MoreThe Unspeakable Past Of Indian Boarding Schools
June 7, 2021
![Students at the Kamloops School](/content/articles/ic_1623037784_400x300_true.jpg)
A grim discovery in western Canada is yet another shocking reminder of how Indian schools were instruments of genocide. Lois Red Elk offers two poems that speak to their legacy
Read MoreHow Do We Lift Our Mental Spirits?
June 3, 2021
![The great outdoors: good for body and soul](/content/articles/ic_1622767022_400x300_true.jpg)
Timothy Tate writes about society's reluctance to prioritize mental health as a major public concern. Ironically, the challenge exists in a region filled with nature's healing abundance
Read MoreAll Aboard The Bustling New Trails To "Nowhere"
June 2, 2021
![Wildlife want to know: what is conservation?](/content/articles/ic_1622658259_400x300_true.jpg)
Everybody is demanding access to Greater Yellowstone's finite wildlands but who is defending the wildlife that calls it home? A new cartoon by John Potter
Read MorePausing to Say Hello—And Goodbye
June 1, 2021
![What is your memory of place (and other beings living there)?](/content/articles/ic_1622559285_400x300_true.jpg)
Naturalist Susan Marsh wonders: How many of us really see a wild place for what it is—and, if pressed, could we offer an apt eyewitness account after passing through it?
Read MoreArtworks Of The Week: 'Keep Yourself In The Light'
May 28, 2021
![Moose in the Rockies](/content/articles/ic_1622212965_400x300_true.jpg)
Watercolorist Rod Crossman finds inspiration in the words of Norman Maclean
Read MoreStudy: Wolves Bring Fewer Car Wrecks, Save Money And Human Lives
May 26, 2021
![What's the real value of wolves?](/content/articles/ic_1622082600_400x300_true.jpg)
New research paper raises tantalizing questions about value of wolves in Wisconsin, especially as western states plot their 21st century re-extermination
Read MoreScary Bear Tales
May 26, 2021
![Mama describes the most dangerous animals in the woods](/content/articles/ic_1622035322_400x300_true.jpg)
Grizzly oral traditions: What MoJo cartoonist John Potter overheard at a Greater Yellowstone backcountry campsite
Read MoreThe Fine Artist Who Brakes For Rattlesnakes And Mountain Lions
May 26, 2021
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Celebrated American stone carver Steve Kestrel talks respect for all species, art as environmental statement and meeting Georgia O'Keeffe
Read MoreThe Next Endangered Species in Hip Mountain Towns: Local People
May 19, 2021
![It's a scene repeated throughout the Rockies](/content/articles/ic_1621400836_400x300_true.jpg)
As greedy landlords convert homes and apartments into pricey short-term rentals for tourists, many longtime residents are feeling exiled from their own communities. John Potter sizes it up
Read MoreA Novel About Lobos—With The Big Bad Wolf Nowhere In Sight
May 14, 2021
![Moritsch writes fiction but not fairy tales lacking in science](/content/articles/ic_1621002756_400x300_true.jpg)
For decades, Barbara Moritsch worked as an ecologist in some of the most visited national parks. In her novel she dispels backward attitudes toward wolves
Read MoreThings That Can't Be Re-Created
May 12, 2021
![Remember the climber who hammered in bolts on petroglyphs?](/content/articles/ic_1620781579_400x300_true.jpg)
After a climber in Utah brazenly bolted a route across ancient indigenous petroglyphs, believing they were "graffiti," MoJo cartoonist John Potter says it spells only one thing
Read More"Antler Scouts" Enter A Brave New Era
May 11, 2021
![Every year bull elk shed their antlers](/content/articles/ic_1620750992_400x300_true.jpg)
Julie Fustanio reports from Jackson Hole on the annual frenzy of gathering shed wildlife antlers, the covid effect and scouting bringing equality to girls
Read MoreMatho's Message And The Enduring Spirit of Bear Nation
May 9, 2021
![Grizzly Mother 399 and four cubs swim the Snake](/content/articles/ic_1620600667_400x300_true.jpg)
Lois Red Elk shares a brand new poem inspired by the journey of Jackson Hole Grizzly 399, an enduring symbol of motherhood and sentience in the world
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