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A Black Woman Who Tried To Survive In The Dark, White Forest
June 18, 2020 // Diversity, Forest Service
![Melody Mobley](/content/articles/ic_1533160649_400x300_true.jpg)
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
![A wolf joins magpies in a wild feast](/content/articles/ic_1591907370_400x300_true.jpg)
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
![Looking into the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness](/content/articles/ic_1591713178_400x300_true.jpg)
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
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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
![Bison in Yellowstone's Lamar Valley](/content/articles/ic_1585514075_400x300_true.jpg)
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
![The Buffalo Horn drainage in the Wild Gallatins](/content/articles/ic_1577657882_400x300_true.jpg)
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
![A hiker admires misty sun rays in a Yellowstone forest](/content/articles/ic_1575518822_400x300_true.jpg)
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
![Riding the 'Ghee in Greater Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1572919515_400x300_true.jpg)
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
![Ivan Doig taking notes at Fort Peck](/content/articles/ic_1570309863_400x300_true.jpg)
Robert Patrick, a Doig fan and end-of-life-physician, writes of what he found in the famous author's journals
Read MoreDoes The E-Bike Invasion Represent A Menace To Wildlife And Character Of Public Lands?
September 25, 2019
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Larry Desjardin examines impact of Interior Department executive order opening gate for e-bikes in national parks, wildlife refuges and BLM lands. Are national forests next?
Read MoreWhere Grizzlies Still Barely Hang On—In Their Own Yaak Time
September 23, 2019
![Can humans leave any place alone?](/content/articles/ic_1569288087_400x300_true.jpg)
For writer Rick Bass, dignity can be measured where nature is allowed to persist without impetuous interference. Another installment in our Sounds Of Silence series.
Read MoreWarning Signs Are Flashing
June 27, 2019
![Have we passed the human-wildlife tipping point?](/content/articles/ic_1561492299_400x300_true.jpg)
Jackson Hole is on the front lines of a new reality: As Susan Marsh notes, we are rapidly running roughshod over the things that bring us to Greater Yellowstone
Read MoreBison: Still Not Back From The Brink
May 27, 2019
![Russell's "When the Land Belonged to God"](/content/articles/ic_1558998716_400x300_true.jpg)
The rescue of America's national land mammal is considered one of the greatest conservation success stories ever and yet it's hard to find many wild herds on the map
Read MoreWake For A Climber
May 22, 2019
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Following the tragic loss of young climber Jess Roskelley, Timothy Tate explores the connection between loss and the sacredness of living a life true to oneself
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