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Encounter With Grizzly—Part I: The Shooting

July 5, 2018 // Grizzly Bears

A grizzly mother with cubs
In three parts, MoJo columnist Steve Primm reflects on lessons from a hiker's killing of a bear in Wyoming's Wind River Mountains
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A Hunger For Solitude During Visitor Season

June 27, 2018 // Grizzly Bears, Jackson Hole, Wilderness, Wyoming

After the guests depart, Susan Marsh savors a wild Snake and charismatic megafauna
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Why Wildlife Moves

June 15, 2018

Clovis-era hunters in Montana
Ecologist Lance Craighead digs into 13,000 years of natural history and ponders what climate change means for Greater Yellowstone
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Ryan Zinke Scores A Pyrrhic Victory In Yellowstone

June 14, 2018

Ryan Zinke at Yellowstone's doorstep
After ousting Dan Wenk over bison, Interior Secretary now must decide: will he stand behind his controversial National Park Service Director?
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Cameron Sholly Named New Superintendent Of Yellowstone

June 13, 2018

Cam Sholly and Ryan Zinke
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announces replacement for Dan Wenk
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Second Person In Three Days Injured By Cow Elk In Yellowstone

June 5, 2018

Thirty-two-minute-old elk calf in Mammoth Hot Springs; Jim Peaco/NPS
In America's first national park, wapiti mothers are protective of their calves, no matter how docile they look
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Honoring Šung'mayetu The Underdog

June 4, 2018

Coyote
From her home on the prairie, poet Lois Red Elk debuts two new tributes to coyote
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The American West's Uncivil War: Assessing Watt, Zinke, Future Generations

June 3, 2018

Students gaze into the future and past of the American West
A MoJo interview with Don Snow. Part 3: how we got here and where the environmental movement goes next
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With Conservation, It's Not Hunters And Anglers Versus Everyone Else

May 29, 2018

Former Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ash
Former national director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service warns that conservation must evolve, not be stuck in its white past
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The American West's Uncivil War: What Would Wallace Stegner Think?

May 25, 2018

A MoJo interview with Don Snow about his native West. Part 1: seeing the region whole
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In Tom Miner Basin, Horse As Extension Of Place And Self

May 20, 2018

The Anderson Ranch in Tom Miner
For Julie Anderson, horses bring a grounding perspective in life in the wild Gallatins north of Yellowstone. Enjoy Louise Johns' new column and Western women and equines
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Gallatin Valley's Tempest Of Growth

May 15, 2018

Bozeman as it is. Photo courtesy Montana State University
Headwaters Economics calls attention to alarming rate of disappearing open space around Bozeman. What does it mean for the wild Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem?
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The Dakota/Lakota Don't Wait For Godot, Instead They Have Hawks

May 2, 2018

Photo courtesy Mike Baird https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/323660913/
Poet Lois Red Elk writes about avian messengers
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Bison Injures Visitor In Yellowstone

May 2, 2018

A bison bull in Old Faithful area
Idahoan tossed off trail at Old Faithful area by buffalo. First incident of 2018
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