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Don't Shred On Them: A Young Star Skier Speaks Up For Bighorns
November 11, 2021
Hadley Hammer, who learned to carve turns in the Tetons, says recreationists need to consider their growing impacts on sensitive wildlife. Her essay is one well worth reading
Read MoreWho Are The Biggest NIMBYS?
November 7, 2021
Once again, John Potter pokes fun at humans who fail to grasp the irony of intolerance when we invade the wild backyards of others
Read MoreA Nourishment Of Reverence Across Generations
November 7, 2021
Poet Lois Red Elk reflects on how, for thousands of years, the aftermaths of successful autumn hunts have been times of coming together for families expressing reverence to the creator
Read MoreHow Do We Continue The Miracle Of US Grizzly Conservation?
November 6, 2021
Fate of Jackson Hole Grizzly 399, human-bear co-existence and Montana laws hostile to grizzlies will be discussed in virtual town hall Monday night by Servheen, Hilty and Mangelsen. You're invited
Read MoreSurrendering Nature To Politics: Are US National Parks In Retreat?
November 3, 2021
The triumph of cattle and farmers over elk in Point Reyes echoes the same public outrage involving wapiti, wolves and bison in Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Grand Canyon
Read MoreEvolution Of A Young Climate Activist
October 23, 2021
Two Lilys: A high school reporter who is going places interviews a contemporary who isn't content to sit on the sidelines. She's taking action
Read MoreLobo Delusions?
October 19, 2021
Cartoonist John Potter says Montana's rabid anti-wolf policies, lacking in facts and common sense, are just plain crazy. And they're giving the state a self-inflicted black eye
Read MoreMontana’s Wildlife Depends On Private Sector Partners—Let's Reward Them: A PERC Rebuttal
October 15, 2021
Should hunting tags be awarded to private landowners who provide important habitat for public wildlife? PERC says incentivizing conservation on private land is essential
Read MoreYellowstone Confronts Its Past
October 11, 2021
Homeland and crossroads for at least 27 indigenous tribes, Yellowstone as a place has an ancient human history—one seldom acknowledged in its first 150 years as a park
Read MoreThe Trickster Renders Us Invisible
October 10, 2021 // Poetry, Wildlife
Lois Red Elk writes a poem about coyote that reminds how the essence of being is not material, but everything else
Read MoreScientists Say Gianforte's Anti-Wolf, Anti-Grizzly Policies In Montana Have No Scientific Basis
October 2, 2021 // Wildlife, Wolves, Yellowstone
Prominent group of wildlife professionals with 1,500 years of experience condemn Montana's new laws targeting wolves. Already pups from popular Yellowstone wolf pack have been killed
Read MoreYellowstone Wolf 302 Latest Star In Rick McIntyre's Lobo Trifecta
September 30, 2021 // Wolves
It's not easy surviving as a wolf in America's oldest national park—and this doesn't even include the perils that loom for wolves from humans once they cross the northern border into Montana
Read MoreIf Darwin Created A Field Guide For Yellowstone National Petting Zoo
September 29, 2021 // John Potter, Yellowstone
Cartoonist John Potter creates this handy pamphlet for the ecologically illiterate headed to Yellowstone and Grand Teton
Read MoreMontana Wolf Policies Are Destroying State's Reputation As Beacon For Wildlife Management
September 26, 2021 // Montana, Wolves
Seven respected former wildlife commissioners, all hunters, condemn Montana governor and lawmakers for their callous, unscientific promotion of wolf slaughter
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