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Feeling A Deeper Grief When Winter Doesn't Come
February 5, 2022
![In winter, without snow and cold, rural Western roads yield even less relief](/content/articles/ic_1644108402_400x300_true.jpg)
In her new poem "Mile Marker 605," Lois Red Elk speaks to the bleakness of this season in Indian Country as exemplified in the vision of roadkill
Read MoreProminent Scientists Push Back Against Delisting Grizzly Bears: Op-Ed
January 13, 2022
![Grizzly 399 and one of her recent cubs](/content/articles/ic_1642096375_400x300_true.jpg)
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 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 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 More“Never Here”: Battle Royale In MN Boundary Waters' Mine Fight Has Ties To Greater Yellowstone
November 16, 2021
![Boundary Waters: a wilderness marvel in America's Lower 48](/content/articles/ic_1637102210_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Journal interviews Becky Rom who is hoping to stop a mega copper mine, backed by Chilean investors, from harming the Lower 48's premier water wilderness
Read MoreScientists Say Gianforte's Anti-Wolf, Anti-Grizzly Policies In Montana Have No Scientific Basis
October 2, 2021 // Wildlife, Wolves, Yellowstone
![Wolves and grizzlies target of Montana's anti-predator laws](/content/articles/ic_1633189882_400x300_true.jpg)
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
![For Wolf 302, being a savvy hunter was matter of life or death](/content/articles/ic_1633048016_400x300_true.jpg)
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 MoreMontana Defiantly Puts Yellowstone Wolves In Its Crosshairs
September 9, 2021 // Montana, Wolves, Yellowstone
![A member of Yellowstone's Delta Pack](/content/articles/ic_1631214833_400x300_true.jpg)
In unprecedented move, new hunting and trapping regulations would allow every wolf coming into state from America's first national park to be killed as a trophy
Read MoreHow A Mega-Mine And A 'Law Without A Brain' Were Defeated On Yellowstone's Back Door
August 26, 2021 // Activism, Mining, Yellowstone
![Henderson Mountain would have been sacrificed to mega gold mining](/content/articles/ic_1630016652_400x300_true.jpg)
A quarter century after a controversial gold mine was stopped thanks to presidential intervention, one of the green Davids who battled a powerful Canadian giant reflects on the longshot victory
Read MoreLast Trek Of The Human Wolverine
August 17, 2021
![Until the end he had a twinkle in his eyes for wild country](/content/articles/ic_1629220731_400x300_true.jpg)
Joe Gutkoski, a legendary American conservationist, has passed away. Is his style of relentless advocacy for wildlife and wild places the only hope Greater Yellowstone has for keeping its nature from being tamed?
Read MoreThe Tyranny Of Individualism As Destroyer Of Communities And Wild Places
August 10, 2021
![How Gardiner rebuilds after fire: Is it a harbinger for Greater Yellowstone?](/content/articles/ic_1628638238_400x300_true.jpg)
How a fire in a Yellowstone gateway town reminds that anti-regulation is killing the kind of thinking needed to preserve the best of Greater Yellowstone. Lee Nellis weighs in
Read MoreA Yellowstone Wolf-Watching Guide Wonders Aloud: What Century Are We Living In?
August 5, 2021
![Montana, Idaho aim to decimate wolves, again](/content/articles/ic_1628190412_400x300_true.jpg)
In this op-ed, Phil Knight says that given new laws in Montana and Idaho designed to decimate wolf numbers, it's time to restore federal protection for lobos
Read MoreIn This Wolf Man, There Are Enduring Echoes Of Aldo
July 29, 2021
![The historic day wolves were restored to Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1627570644_400x300_true.jpg)
Greater Yellowstone-based scientist Mike Phillips receives Leopold Award, highest honor given by The Wildlife Society for having an impactful career in conservation
Read MoreThis Generation Will Be Judged By Whether It Let Salmon Runs Go Extinct
July 27, 2021
![Dammed rivers have pushed salmon to the brink](/content/articles/ic_1627414453_400x300_true.jpg)
Chris Wood, the national leader of Trout Unlimited, writes in this guest essay that salmon and steelhead can recover if given a chance. But time is running out
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