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Killing The Yellowstone Icons They Are Encharged to Protect

April 15, 2018

Still image taken from Yellowstone NPS video
Park Superintendent Dan Wenk talks about how his rangers loathe having to destroy bison to appease the Montana Department of Livestock
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Weakening Wilderness Act Is Antithetical To Principle Of Landmark Law

April 10, 2018

The author seeking wilderness
Writer Michael Dax says efforts by hardcore recreation user groups to undermine wilderness protection are self-serving and short-sighted
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What Would The Muries Say About Recreation, Conservation And Wildness?

April 10, 2018

Aldo Leopold and Olaus Murie
Martin Murie answered the question. The late son of Olaus and Mardy Murie penned this piece only a few months before he died in 2012.
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In Yellowstone Bison Controversy, Would 'Supervaccine' Be A Silver Bullet Solution?

April 9, 2018

Yellowstone superintendent Dan Wenk notes that slaughter of bison is really a battle over public land grass with livestock industry
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A MoJo Short Story Video: Are Elk Or Yellowstone Bison The Real Disease Threat?

April 3, 2018

Yellowstone Superintendent says science proves park buffalo are not the menaces Montana portrays them to be
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When The Meadowlark Sings Oiyokipi Omaka Teca

April 2, 2018

For Lois Red Elk and other prairie dwellers, springtime means 'Take joy, the world is made anew'
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At National Elk Refuge, Pondering The Winter That Was, The Spring That Is

March 23, 2018

"Bulls at the Elk Refuge" by Sue Cedarholm
As her project 'Watercolor Diary' heads toward conclusion, Sue Cedarholm paints a vision of wapiti about to shed their antlers
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A Lifelong Sportsman Writes His Congressional Delegation About Guns

March 14, 2018

Photo courtesy USFWS
Gary Wolfe is a hunter, biologist and formerly an outfitter, head of Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Montana fish and wildlife commissioner
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That Which We Cannot Escape In Life

March 2, 2018

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For psychotherapist Timothy Tate, the minister's son, dealing with death requires making peace with oneself  
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For Hunkpapa Women, Winter Is The Season Of Dreaming

February 26, 2018

Hungry Fox Equinox by R. Tom Gilleon
Everyone dreams. Lois Red Elk writes about how a special dream society carries forth visions to which an entire community belongs
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A Life In Wonderland

February 23, 2018 // Yellowstone

Yellowstone's legendary "winter keeper" Steven Fuller takes readers on an intimate exploration of the world's first national park. Every few days he serves up a new dispatch here
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'Liberal Radio Media' As Elusive As Bigfoot In The Rural West

February 13, 2018 // The New West

"Sasquatch," a painting by Robert Bateman
Still, Trump Administration wants to zero out funding for NPR, PBS, arts and humanities
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Wild Animal Tales Told In Tracks, Spoor, Life And Death

February 4, 2018 // Yellowstone

Elk antlers Photo by Steven Fuller
For winterkeeper Steven Fuller, Yellowstone's drama is written in the snow
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My Golden Weeping Willow—Finding Grounding In The Spectacular Ordinary

February 1, 2018 // Co-existence

A golden weeping willow (MaxPixel)
Naturalist Susan Marsh opens her old journal and muses on boredom, beauty, impermanence and the lament of a favorite tree cut down
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