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Outdoor Recreation Equals Conservation: Debunking The Myth
April 5, 2022
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 More“Never Here”: Battle Royale In MN Boundary Waters' Mine Fight Has Ties To Greater Yellowstone
November 16, 2021
Mountain Journal interviews Becky Rom who is hoping to stop a mega copper mine, backed by Chilean investors, from harming the Lower 48's premier water wilderness
Read MoreMontana’s Wildlife Depends On Private Sector Partners—Let's Reward Them: A PERC Rebuttal
October 15, 2021
Should hunting tags be awarded to private landowners who provide important habitat for public wildlife? PERC says incentivizing conservation on private land is essential
Read MoreMontana Defiantly Puts Yellowstone Wolves In Its Crosshairs
September 9, 2021 // Montana, Wolves, Yellowstone
In unprecedented move, new hunting and trapping regulations would allow every wolf coming into state from America's first national park to be killed as a trophy
Read MoreLast Trek Of The Human Wolverine
August 17, 2021
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?
Read MoreDear Senator Johnson
July 8, 2021
Want to know what cartoonist John Potter thinks about the Wisconsin lawmaker's claim that climate change is a bunch of BS? As the West scorches, Potter offers a reply
Read MorePondering Climate Change In A Red State Already Known For Its Melting Glaciers
April 11, 2021
Even when state leadership is lacking, scientists say in this op-ed, progress can still be made in confronting impacts by focussing on local issues with local expertise
Read MoreAre Hunters Still Leading Wildlife Conservation in America?
March 8, 2021
In MoJo's The Week That Is, Wilkinson and Sadler talk about how declines in hunter numbers nationwide are creating budget challenges for states
Read MoreJackson Hole Resident Who Fed Bears—Including Grizzly 399—Now In Spotlight
February 26, 2021
Controversial practice of humans nourishing wildlife raises concerns about country's most famous bruin and negative consequences for animals
Read MoreWill Deb Haaland Make History Or Be Stonewalled?
February 22, 2021
In The Week That Is, Wilkinson and Sadler talk Interior Secretaries going back to the controversial tenure of Sagebrush Rebel James Watt of Wyoming
Read MoreThe Watercolored Trout Of La Pescadera
February 10, 2021
Caroline Price's art has assumed greater meaning, reminding us of the things that matter most. She knows by personal experience
Read MoreSituational Truth-Telling in Wyoming And Beyond
February 8, 2021
The Week That Is: Sadler and Wilkinson talk Biden's climate plan, Cheney's censure and dismissing science unless it serves one's own political agenda
Read MoreJohn Potter Brings New Nature Cartoon To Mountain Journal
February 3, 2021
Each Wednesday, in "It's All Relative," the Montana fine artist will explore issues shaping Greater Yellowstone and the West with sardonic truth
Read MoreBeyond Rescue: Do We Really Need Cell Phone Coverage In The Wild Backcountry?
January 20, 2021
As cell towers proliferate, allowing the internet and social media to penetrate remote landscapes, how come the public wasn't asked if it's a good idea?
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