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‘The Modern West’ Explores How Indigenous America Confronts Pandemics
September 16, 2021 // The Modern West
On this journey from colonizing pilgrims infecting native people to dealing with covid fears in a fierce anti-vax state, this award-winning podcast from Wyoming Public Media shines with brave new storytelling
Read MoreMore People, More Griz Does Not Have To Mean More Conflict
September 12, 2021 // Grizzly Bears
As Jessianne Castle reports in this story from wild country around Yellowstone and Glacier national parks, it's how humans behave that can keep people and bears safe
Read MoreMontana Defiantly Puts Yellowstone Wolves In Its Crosshairs
September 9, 2021 // Montana, Wolves, Yellowstone
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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