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On Falling Forests And The Decline Of Affordable Housing
April 14, 2019
As hip mountain towns struggle to make a place for worker bees, Lance Olsen says our tax code, the timber industry and developers aren't focused on real solutions
Read MoreNaturalist Says Outdoor Recreation Can Have Huge Impacts On Wildlife
March 20, 2019 // Outdoor Recreation, The New West, Wildlife
Mountain bikers and hikers with dogs can bring huge spatial intrusions into wildlife habitat
Read MoreWhat’s Up With 'The Green New Deal' And What Does It Mean For The West?
March 13, 2019 // Climate Change, Economy
Lance Olsen boils down a familiar old battle to its basics as sabers rattle among coal interests in Wyoming and Montana
Read MoreThe Perils Of Going Along To Get Along
March 13, 2019 // Climate Change, Growth—Good, Bad & Ugly, Leadership, Outdoor Recreation, Politics, The New West, Wildlife
What does it say about us when we have leaders who don't have the courage to act?
Read MoreWhy More Heat Means The End Of The Predictable World As We Know It
February 13, 2019
By not confronting the causes of climate change, we're setting ourselves up for huge economic and ecological impacts. A comprehensive analysis by Lance Olsen on this and the Green New Deal
Read MoreThe Golf Course Grizzly: First Hope Of Biological Connectivity For Bruins?
November 27, 2018
Scientists have long supposed grizzly populations between ecosystems might link up. David Stalling wonders when it will happen.
Read MoreThe Horse Family
October 18, 2018 // Photography, Ranching, Together We Go: Women and Horses
At the U-Cross Ranch near Roy, Nicole Johnson teaches her daughters to find strength in the saddle
Read MoreGallatin Range Deserves Wilderness Protection: An Ecologist's Op Ed
September 6, 2018
George Wuerthner says one of Greater Yellowstone's most important wildlife areas is unprotected
Read MoreIn A Heating-Up West, Must Business-As-Usual Conservation Be Interrupted?
July 1, 2018 // Climate Change, Forest Service
Lance Olsen says the movement of protecting ecosystems needs to change its thinking if it wants to save them
Read MoreWhy Wildlife Moves
June 15, 2018
Ecologist Lance Craighead digs into 13,000 years of natural history and ponders what climate change means for Greater Yellowstone
Read MoreTraps Of Our Own Making: Climate Change, Blame And Denial
June 10, 2018
Lance Olsen lays out the undeniable scientific evidence that elected officials cannot ignore
Read MoreBrandborg Worried Conservation Movement Has Lost Its Edge
April 17, 2018
Dead at 93, former head of The Wilderness Society said environmental groups have forgotten how to fight the good fight
Read MorePerilous Crossings
March 1, 2018
Wildlife movement in Greater Yellowstone is extraordinary but every day with busy highways it's becoming extraordinarily more tenuous. A prominent member of the scientific Craighead family weighs in.
Read MoreDefine The Meaning Of 'Extreme' In Talking About Forest Health
February 25, 2018
Lance Olsen says politicians are peddling fairy tales to the gullible while greenhouse gases pose real peril
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