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The World Loses Wildlife Art's Greatest Champion
July 6, 2023
![Bill Kerr, who helped create a global destination for wildlife art in Jackson Hole](/content/articles/ic_1688674272_400x300_true.jpg)
Bill Kerr passes at 85. In Jackson Hole, his vision led to creation of the National Museum of Wildlife Art, a shrine for those globally who value connections between art and nature
Read MoreIn Montana, Four Different Polls Say Citizens Seriously Unhappy About Sprawl
July 5, 2023
![Paradise Valley/Park County as interpreted by painter Robert Spannring](/content/articles/ic_1688528967_400x300_true.jpg)
North of Yellowstone, no-zoning signs fly like protest flags but residents of beautiful Park County are deeply concerned lack of planning is causing the loss of places they love
Read More'What Were You Thinking When You Took The Osprey?'
July 4, 2023
![As osprey perched on its nest, another avian wonder of Greater Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1688481526_400x300_true.jpg)
Dave Hall peers back four generations toward a revered ancestor who did things as a sportsman that would not meet today's conservation ethic
Read MoreHeadwaters' Report Highlights Downsides Of So-Called Green Lifestyle Economy
June 24, 2023
![New glampground along Yellowstone River in Paradise Valley, enabled by weak planning laws in Park County, Montana](/content/articles/ic_1687564178_400x300_true.jpg)
Environmentalists often condemn resource extraction, but is the 'natural amenity economy' built on industrial recreation, tourism and real estate sales better for wildlife?
Read MoreGrizzly 399 And Cub—An Update From Jackson Hole
June 17, 2023
![A mother's love: 399 and cub likely to be her last](/content/articles/ic_1686984090_400x300_true.jpg)
At Summer Solstice and more than a month out of the den, 399 has devoted much time, Thomas Mangelsen says, to helping her cub understand the joy of play
Read MorePondering Loneliness When You Live In A Place Some Call Shangri-la
June 16, 2023
![For most people, seeking solitude is different from living a solitary life](/content/articles/ic_1686937957_400x300_true.jpg)
People flee to the wilds seeking solitude and yet there's a crisis of human disconnection now gripping America. Therapist Timothy Tate explores what's behind it
Read MoreComplements in Landscape Beauty: Art and Place in the Gros Ventre and Beyond
June 12, 2023
![The Teton Range from the sandstone rim on “Magic Ridge.”](/content/articles/ic_1686588296_400x300_true.jpg)
Returning to ‘Magic Ridge,’ Susan Marsh rediscovers the many faces of Nature’s splendor
Read More'Cracked' Makes Strong Case For Tearing Down Dams That Took Wild Rivers
June 8, 2023
![The Yellowstone River is the liquid gem of Paradise Valley. Some wanted to have it dammed](/content/articles/ic_1686180836_400x300_true.jpg)
Across West, author Steven Hawley writes, logic that justified damming rivers is wrong. Like Yosemite battle over Hetch Hetchy, Greater Yellowstone had its own fights
Read MoreHow A Citizen Is Raising Awareness About Threat Of Grand Targhee Expansion
June 1, 2023
![Crepuscular rays over the Tetons from the "quiet side"](/content/articles/ic_1685660035_400x300_true.jpg)
Howie Garber’s new book touches on the beauty of wildness
through a photographer’s lens
Can Natural Character Of South Jackson Hole Endure Without Limits On People?
May 26, 2023
![A view of the "Northern South Park Neighborhood" in Jackson Hole](/content/articles/ic_1684658807_400x300_true.jpg)
Claims that community must grow to fix the affordable housing crisis are not only based on faulty logic but are destroying valley's beloved sense of place, Robert Frodeman writes
Finding Greater Yellowstone ‘Magic’ On A Rocky Ridge
May 21, 2023
![The Teton Range near the author's home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming](/content/articles/ic_1684538750_400x300_true.jpg)
Wanting to name
the priceless landmarks she visits in Greater Yellowstone’s great outdoors, MoJo
columnist Susan Marsh explores the power behind magical places
Famous Jackson Hole Grizzly 399 Wows Again, But Now What?
May 18, 2023
![Model of Motherhood: 399 and her new cub out of hibernation](/content/articles/ic_1684459521_400x300_true.jpg)
Emerging with her 18th cub as part of a historic legendary life, 399 is 27, long in the tooth and still transforming our perceptions of grizzlies. Now it's our turn to be on best behavior
Read MoreHow Development Forced Bozeman’s Namesake Creek Underground
May 10, 2023
![Do you see it? What is the water and land mosaic telling us?](/content/articles/ic_1683764443_400x300_true.jpg)
The plight of Bozeman Creek is an indicator of how the health of waterways in Greater Yellowstone and the West are facing a multitude of damaging threats
Read MoreThe Doggoned Truth—Domestic Canines Are Not Wildlife’s Best Friends
May 4, 2023
![We love our pups but they're taking a toll on wildlife](/content/articles/ic_1683220249_400x300_true.jpg)
The science is clear that our canine friends are seriously disrupting wild ecosystems, but why do we keep turning a blind eye? Do we want wildlife to persist?
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