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Jackson Hole Resident Who Fed Bears—Including Grizzly 399—Now In Spotlight
February 26, 2021
Controversial practice of humans nourishing wildlife raises concerns about country's most famous bruin and negative consequences for animals
Read MoreWildlife Don't Need This Kind Of Human Charity
February 24, 2021
Whether out of perceived goodwill or ignorance, feeding wildlife can have deadly consequences
Read MoreWaiting For Elk To Disappear From 'The Last Hundred Acres'
February 23, 2021
Greater Yellowstone resident Rob Sisson pens an essay about his sorrow in watching a wapiti migration route vanish on the outskirts of Bozeman, Montana
Read MoreWill Deb Haaland Make History Or Be Stonewalled?
February 22, 2021
In The Week That Is, Wilkinson and Sadler talk Interior Secretaries going back to the controversial tenure of Sagebrush Rebel James Watt of Wyoming
Read MoreDeb Haaland Would Bring Fresh Ideas, Unlike Any Other, To Interior
February 22, 2021
In this commentary, Shane Doyle (Apsáalooke) says first Native American nominated for cabinet post will consider present, future needs of all Westerners
Read MoreAs Backcountry Fills, Will Wildness Be Left Empty?
February 21, 2021
In this op-ed, writer Phil Knight, a wilderness advocate for four decades, warns how Greater Yellowstone's remotest spots are being flooded by people
Read MoreNo, Human Development Does Not "Create" Wildlife Corridors
February 18, 2021
In op-ed, former superintendent of Canada's oldest national park calls out development scheme that has many parallels in Greater Yellowstone
Read More"New" Comers vs. "Old" Timers: A Modern West Soap Opera
February 17, 2021
Have you lived here long enough to call yourself local?
Read MoreWhat Does River Conservation Really Mean?
February 16, 2021
The Week That Is: If you ask river protectors you're likely to get different answers. Is growing recreation pressure a problem?
Read MoreYellowstone On Ice
February 15, 2021
Deep in the frozen maw of America's first national park, Yellowstone winterkeeper Steven Fuller chronicles the aftermath of a snowstorm
Read MoreWildlife Toll Roads
February 10, 2021
Mountain Journal cartoonist John Potter offers a grim reminder why safe wildlife passageways across highways are important
Read MoreThe Watercolored Trout Of La Pescadera
February 10, 2021
Caroline Price's art has assumed greater meaning, reminding us of the things that matter most. She knows by personal experience
Read MoreSituational Truth-Telling in Wyoming And Beyond
February 8, 2021
The Week That Is: Sadler and Wilkinson talk Biden's climate plan, Cheney's censure and dismissing science unless it serves one's own political agenda
Read MoreWhen The Spirit Moves You, Sing A Song Called Odowan
February 5, 2021
From Fort Peck, Lois Red Elk sends us a new poem about a sonorous hymn to mark the moment you become present in the mystery of the natural world
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