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Prominent Scientists Push Back Against Delisting Grizzly Bears: Op-Ed
January 13, 2022
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When it comes to assessing biological recovery of grizzlies, who is better informed—people who study wildlife for a living or governors and legislators who dislike grizzlies and wolves?
Read MoreThe Strength Of Great Trees Is Grounded In Deep Roots
January 9, 2022
![An old cottonwood reflected in the water](/content/articles/ic_1641692118_400x300_true.jpg)
Poet Lois Red Elk reminds that the obvious things we savor about place, wildlife and community have deeper underpinnings in the earth
Read MoreWhat Is Wilderness Without Its Wolves?
January 9, 2022
![Does anything more signify wilderness than a wolf howl?](/content/articles/ic_1641759429_400x300_true.jpg)
The ecological importance of wolves is irrefutable. In this op-ed, MoJo columnist Franz Camenzind asks why are wolves facing eradication campaigns in federal Wilderness where the health of native species takes priority?
Read MoreHopeful Words Won't Save Us Without Action
January 1, 2022
![How can we make 2022 a year to save what matters to us?](/content/articles/ic_1641100145_400x300_true.jpg)
As Susan Marsh looks into 2022 and ponders the many challenges to Greater Yellowstone, she says Nature needs allies defending her, not hollow resolutions
Read MoreThe Climber-Conservationist Who Literally Put Greater Yellowstone On The Map
December 28, 2021
![Rick Reese atop Mount Moran](/content/articles/ic_1640745246_400x300_true.jpg)
As advocates for the Yellowstone region go, Rick Reese ranks right up there with the most impactful of all time. His legacy is written in the abundant wildlife and healthy landscapes we value today
Read MoreA Seat-Of-The-Pants Cartoon Ripped From The Headlines
December 26, 2021
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When it comes to wildlife conflict, John Potter asks, why do animals often get blamed for human misbehavior?
Read More'Gunfight' Is One Of The Most Important Books You May Ever Read About Guns In America
December 22, 2021
![What Ryan Busse loves to do when he's not writing](/content/articles/ic_1640204737_400x300_true.jpg)
Ryan Busse, a Montana hunter, was once a gun industry executive who helped create the uncivil war over firearms in America. Now he's trying to change the discourse before it's too late
Read MoreHe Went Outside To Go Inward
December 20, 2021
![Professor Creek and Mary Jane Canyon](/content/articles/ic_1640032146_400x300_true.jpg)
In 'Mary Jane Wild,' Brooke Williams seeks wildness in the West to help him make sense of a world coming apart at the seams. It's a fine read for these times
Read MoreAt Winter Solstice: Deep Dreaming of Pte and Tatanka
December 16, 2021
![Deep dreaming of bison has happened for millennia on different continents](/content/articles/ic_1639675781_400x300_true.jpg)
As Lois Red Elk writes in a new poem, we are an expression of all our ancestors. We can honor them by remembering them—and reaching out in our dreams
Read MorePowder Daze: Where Bighorns No Longer Wander
December 15, 2021
![Bomb's away: More than climate is changing](/content/articles/ic_1639595351_400x300_true.jpg)
Cartoonist John Potter says in many parts of the backcountry, any 'balance' between the desires of outdoor recreationists and the needs of sensitive wildlife is out of whack
Read More'A Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map' Is A Great Read
December 14, 2021
![From exploring wildlands to saving them, Ridgeway continues his own evolution](/content/articles/ic_1639456727_400x300_true.jpg)
Rick Ridgeway has been called 'the real Indiana Jones' for his gravity-defying daring, breathtaking photos and yen to be outdoors. Now his priority is saving what's left of our wild home planet
Read MoreMeet a Conservation Group That Goes Where Most Fear To Tread
December 8, 2021
![A moose that died trying to cross a road in Jackson Hole](/content/articles/ic_1639018317_400x300_true.jpg)
The Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance dares to say the two words that often make land protectionists run for the hills: "planning" and "zoning." But they're crucial to saving the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Read MoreEruption: How Human Development Is Degrading The American Serengeti
December 5, 2021
![Big Sky and what used to be wild Montana](/content/articles/ic_1621302106_400x300_true.jpg)
Big blowups: Stunning visuals from Google Earth show how private land development and resource extraction on public lands are harming wildlife in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Read MoreCelebrating Our Extended Earthly Families
November 25, 2021
![It goes way beyond DNA](/content/articles/ic_1637855754_400x300_true.jpg)
There is kinship in everything around us, if only we open our eyes, cartoonist John Potter reminds
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