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Grizzlies Around Yellowstone Are Entering A Big Squeeze
May 16, 2022
![Grizzly 399 and four cubs, with whom she recently parted company](/content/articles/ic_1652730892_400x300_true.jpg)
Past research shows bears are sensitive to small amounts of habitat intrusion by recreation and development. But what's the impact now as both of those go boom?
Read MoreOutdoor 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 More“Never Here”: Battle Royale In MN Boundary Waters' Mine Fight Has Ties To Greater Yellowstone
November 16, 2021
![Boundary Waters: a wilderness marvel in America's Lower 48](/content/articles/ic_1637102210_400x300_true.jpg)
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
![How does wildlife become asset, not liability on private land?](/content/articles/ic_1634317218_400x300_true.jpg)
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
![A member of Yellowstone's Delta Pack](/content/articles/ic_1631214833_400x300_true.jpg)
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
![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?
Read MoreDear Senator Johnson
July 8, 2021
![Maybe the senator ought to come West?](/content/articles/ic_1625794385_400x300_true.jpg)
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
![Sperry Glacier in retreat in Glacier National Park](/content/articles/ic_1618254644_400x300_true.jpg)
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
![Teddy Roosevelt the young hunter](/content/articles/ic_1615244972_400x300_true.jpg)
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
![Grizzly 399 and four cubs in 2020](/content/articles/ic_1614370741_400x300_true.jpg)
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
![Deb Haaland of New Mexico and Laguna Pueblo](/content/articles/ic_1614016736_400x300_true.jpg)
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
![Catching and releasing inspiration](/content/articles/ic_1612972940_400x300_true.jpg)
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
![What really sank the fortunes of coal?](/content/articles/ic_1612838668_400x300_true.jpg)
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
![Potter and friend in Red Lodge](/content/articles/ic_1612340501_400x300_true.jpg)
Each Wednesday, in "It's All Relative," the Montana fine artist will explore issues shaping Greater Yellowstone and the West with sardonic truth
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