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John Maclean Goes Deep Behind 'A River Runs Through It'
June 11, 2022
![Water is a binding tether across generations](/content/articles/ic_1626988546_400x300_true.jpg)
Son of Norman Maclean comes to Big Sky Thursday to discuss his father's famous fly-fishing story and how Robert Redford's movie changed Montana
Read MoreSearching For The 'Other Bob' Behind Dylan
April 25, 2022
![Dylan playing at the Civil Rights March in Washington DC, summer 1963](/content/articles/ic_1650841067_400x300_true.jpg)
In 1968, writer Toby Thompson set out for Hibbing, Minnesota on a quest to find out how Robert Zimmerman became Bob Dylan. He met the legend's high school sweetheart who inspired a Dylan song
Outdoor Recreation Equals Conservation: Debunking The Myth
April 5, 2022
![Why does Greater Yellowstone still have all of its wildlife?](/content/articles/ic_1649196270_400x300_true.jpg)
A developer's proposal to build a 'glampground' on the banks of the famous Gallatin River stokes controversy and calls messaging used by American conservation groups about recreation into question
Read MoreGov. Lionheart? How Montana's Greg Gianforte Harvested A Yellowstone Cougar
March 3, 2022
![A treed cougar in Yellowstone like the one taken by Gianforte](/content/articles/ic_1646351931_400x300_true.jpg)
The Montana governor's spokeswoman refused to answer questions after word spread of Greg Gianforte taking a cougar near the same place where he felled a Yellowstone wolf in a trap
Read MoreMontana Governor Dodged Accountability After He Shot Yellowstone Research Lion Out Of Tree
March 2, 2022
![A treed cougar in Yellowstone like the one taken by Gianforte](/content/articles/ic_1646263264_400x300_true.jpg)
The governor's spokeswoman refused to do her job in answering questions after rumors spread of Greg Gianforte shooting a cougar near same place where he killed a Yellowstone wolf in a trap
Read MoreWhat If The Airport In Grand Teton National Park Went Away? A Guest Essay
January 23, 2022
![A commercial passenger jet lands in Grand Teton Park](/content/articles/ic_1642980936_400x300_true.jpg)
Busiest airport in Wyoming and only major commercial one located inside a crown jewel national park, Jackson Hole Airport has transformed its setting and the valley
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 Strength Of Great Trees Is Grounded In Deep Roots
January 9, 2022
![An old cottonwood reflected in the water](/content/articles/ic_1641692118_400x300_true.jpg)
Poet Lois Red Elk reminds that the obvious things we savor about place, wildlife and community have deeper underpinnings in the earth
Read MoreWhat Is Wilderness Without Its Wolves?
January 9, 2022
![Does anything more signify wilderness than a wolf howl?](/content/articles/ic_1641759429_400x300_true.jpg)
The ecological importance of wolves is irrefutable. In this op-ed, MoJo columnist Franz Camenzind asks why are wolves facing eradication campaigns in federal Wilderness where the health of native species takes priority?
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 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 MoreA Late Bloomer Writes Her Wild Heart
September 20, 2021 // Writing About Nature
![Carolyn Hopper in Glacier Park](/content/articles/ic_1632192490_400x300_true.jpg)
With two memoirs and a new book of nature poetry under her belt, Carolyn Keith Hopper has come a long way from growing up in the hometown of Thoreau, Emerson and Hawthorne
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?
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