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Montana 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 MoreWildness Ought To Make Us All The Wiser
August 16, 2021
![Imagine Greater Yellowstone if there were no grizzlies](/content/articles/ic_1629153783_400x300_true.jpg)
We crave and need contact with nature but, as Joseph Scalia writes in this essay, technology and human numbers are shrinking back the feel of wild places. That's why, he says, we need to protect more of them
Read MoreOn Tracy Stone-Manning, Doing Dumb Things In Your 20s And The Game Of 'Gotcha'
August 11, 2021
![Tracy Stone-Manning, Biden's nominee to lead BLM](/content/articles/ic_1628730603_400x300_true.jpg)
As Biden's nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management heads toward a vote in the Senate, we reflect in MoJo's 'The Week That Was' on efforts to torpedo her confirmation
Read MoreDeer Spirit
July 5, 2021
![Sketch of white-tailed deer running](/content/articles/ic_1625495038_400x300_true.jpg)
A new poem from Lois Red Elk about how Lakota/Dakota dream culture and channeling the spirit of nature allows us to connect with the ones we love, even when far away
Read MoreWith Color, Flato Has A Magic Touch
June 29, 2021
![Paradise Valley Cloud by Malou Flato](/content/articles/ic_1624997258_400x300_true.jpg)
Artist Malou Flato, known nationally for her mixed media explorations of nature, shines in a new showing of oil paintings devoted to Paradise Valley, Montana
Read MoreWired Differently: Young Americans And Wildland Conservation
June 21, 2021
![Young people have their own definitions of wild nature](/content/articles/ic_1624328037_400x300_true.jpg)
Professor Don Snow, life-long student of the West, reflects on the generational divides in thinking about nature—what's an improvement and what might not be
Read MoreJohn Heminway: American Master Of Dramatic Earthly Storytelling
June 15, 2021
![Heminway on the trail of elephant poachers](/content/articles/ic_1623776477_400x300_true.jpg)
From writing for legendary Wyoming outdoorsman Curt Gowdy to exposing elephant ivory poachers on film, John Heminway fights for wildness by telling the truth
Read MorePondering Climate Change In A Red State Already Known For Its Melting Glaciers
April 11, 2021
![Sperry Glacier in retreat in Glacier National Park](/content/articles/ic_1618254644_400x300_true.jpg)
Even when state leadership is lacking, scientists say in this op-ed, progress can still be made in confronting impacts by focussing on local issues with local expertise
Read MoreNative vs. Wild
January 13, 2021
![Trout: is it only fishing opportunity that matters?](/content/articles/ic_1610590613_400x300_true.jpg)
Hunters reject non-native species, even if they are wild, but why not all anglers when it comes to fish? Trout conservationist Bob Mallard dives into the issue
Read MoreShould Park Landmarks Honor People of Infamy?
December 30, 2020
![Ranger Peak in foreground, Mt. Doane in distance.](/content/articles/ic_1609385941_400x300_true.jpg)
Gustavus Doane, who participated in Marias Massacre of more than 200 Blackfeet, has summits named after him in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks
Read MoreA Montana Judge Ousts The Nation's Public Lands Chief. Now What?
October 23, 2020
![The Uncompahgre Plateau](/content/articles/ic_1603479879_400x300_true.jpg)
Some want his decisions tossed, too. William Perry Pendley's "acting" status as Bureau of Land Management head calls into question rulings on monuments, drilling and wildlife conservation
Read More"Public Trust" Is A Film About America's Natural Heritage That Will Rile You
October 16, 2020
![The Sheenjek River flows from ANWR](/content/articles/ic_1602880688_400x300_true.jpg)
Patagonia made a film about America's great natural asset—our public lands—and it is raising a ruckus. We interview the Montana journalist who appears in it. You can also see the film here, now.
Read More'The Modern West' Explores Struggles Small Towns Face To Survive
September 29, 2020
![Bannack, Montana now a ghost town](/content/articles/ic_1601402472_400x300_true.jpg)
Wyoming Public Media podcast enters second season with provocative line-up of stories ranging from modern ghost towns to race and communities confronting globalism
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