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After A Surreal Year Like This, How Do We Center Ourselves Again?
November 26, 2020
For many, Timothy Tate says, gaining '2020 vision' has been traumatic. Let this holiday stretch bring reflection. The best gift you can give: listening
Read MoreHe Set Out For A Long Walk Down Roadkill Highway
October 12, 2020
Scott Poindexter is crossing the country to raise awareness for wildlife crossings. During a pit stop in Greater Yellowstone, he assessed the grim toll
Read MoreWolf As Avatar: When A Lobo 'Stepson' Takes Over The Pack
September 30, 2020 // Wolves
Ted Kerasote review Rick McIntyre's 'The Reign of Wolf 21,' a dramatic sequel to the Yellowstone naturalist's critically-acclaimed debut about the most famous lobos on earth
Read MoreHow Social Media And Bad Behavior Are Leaving Wild Places Trashed
August 13, 2020
What has the Covid age spawned? While problems exist in all corners of public land West, naturalist Susan Marsh looks at impacts in Jackson Hole
Read MoreThe Big-Hearted Wolf
July 23, 2020 // Wolves
Ted Kerasote reviews Rick McIntyre's paen to lobos 'The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing The Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog'
Read MoreA Black Woman Who Tried To Survive In The Dark, White Forest
June 18, 2020 // Diversity, Forest Service
The Forest Service's first African-American woman forester reflects on sexual assault, justice denied, and racism in one of the country’s premier land management agencies
Read MoreComposting Carcasses In Cattle Country Keeps Livestock And Predators Alive
June 11, 2020
Writer Kate Hill explores why it's important for conservation groups to protect rancher identity in times of livestock loss
Read MoreWhy A District Ranger Became Disgruntled With The US Forest Service
June 9, 2020
Hank Rate remembers when the Custer-Gallatin National Forest stalled wilderness protection and abandoned conservation in favor of getting the cut out
Read MoreWhat Can Greater Yellowstone Learn From Africa? (Remembering Garth Owen-Smith 1944-2020)
April 11, 2020
From sport hunting iconic species to giving local communities ownership over wildlife, Namibia may do things that drive some American conservationists crazy, but it has slowed and reversed the decimation of wildlife
Read MoreWhen The Government Tries To Think Big
March 29, 2020
Thirty years ago, the Greater Yellowstone's first attempt at having a grand vision to protect the ecosystem turned into a whimper. What happened? A first-hand account from a civil servant who was there
Read MoreAre We Giving The Wild Gallatins The Visionary Protection They Really Deserve?
December 29, 2019
By the wildlife they hold, the Gallatin Mountains are wilder than most national parks in the Lower 48. So why are the Forest Service and enviro groups balking at more extensive protections?
Read MoreIn The End, It's What You Give Of Yourself That Matters Most
December 4, 2019
Writer Susan Marsh marks the passage of this year, reflecting on having "enough," advocacy and exuding gratitude
Read MoreOn Having Fun And Passing The Test of Ecological Sustainability
November 4, 2019
A veteran Forest Service backcountry specialist reflects on how her agency is dealing with growing human pressure
Read MoreA Doctor Plumbs The Depths Of Ivan Doig's Illness And Asks: 'Did He Have An Epiphany?'
October 5, 2019
Robert Patrick, a Doig fan and end-of-life-physician, writes of what he found in the famous author's journals
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