Wildlife biologist, author and conservationist Jim Bailey sizes up what he calls "the full catastrophe" regarding Montana legislature's backward attitude toward bison. Will the controversial governor make them law?
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'Bad' Bison Bills In Montana Set Back Conservation of America's Official National Mammal
March 29, 2021
Elk River Writers Workshop Brings Stellar Guest Faculty To Paradise Valley
March 29, 2021
The 2021 conference, set for Chico Hot Springs, will explore not only the craft of writing but contemporary issues. An interview with the Elk River Writers Workshop Director CMarie Fuhrman
Read MoreCovid Reflections: Before The World Shut Down Sarah DeOpsomer Got Sick
March 28, 2021
A year after the pandemic reached the interior West and brought the globe to a standstill, this Bozeman resident survived her own brush with the virus. Now she looks back
Read MoreIs Gallatin County Willing To Sacrifice Its Namesake Elk To Rural Sprawl?
March 24, 2021
The amazing images of Holly Pippel, a nature photographer from Gallatin Gateway, Montana, remind us what's at stake as Bozeman's boom threatens the persistence of wildlife
Read MoreLeave No Trace—Of What?
March 24, 2021
In his latest comic, MoJo cartoonist John Potter tackles the human footprint and ponders the difference between re-creation and recreation
Read MoreFishing's 'Hero Pose': How Do The Fish Feel?
March 23, 2021
In MoJo's The Week That Is, we have a lively conversation about efforts to be kinder to fish when we pull them from the water and mug for the camera
Read MorePando: Charismatic Megaflora And The Populus Paradox
March 21, 2021
Two ecologists pay tribute to one of the largest living organisms on Earth—an imperiled aspen tree that is also a mighty Western forest
Read MoreThe So-Called 'Underutilized Backcountry'
March 18, 2021
This week cartoonist John Potter spoofs claims by federal agencies and outdoor recreationists that wildlands are practically worthless unless filled with more human funhogs
Read MoreFour Bold Ideas To Save Greater Yellowstone (And Certain To Make Some Squirm)
March 15, 2021
Lee Nellis first wrote in Mountain Journal about the failures of conservation. Now he wants to provoke a real discussion about how not to become Colorado. Are we ready to take aversive action?
Read MoreWildlife: The Local 'Stakeholders' Often Given No Voice Or Forgotten
March 14, 2021
In this op-ed Anne Millbrooke says that Wilderness provides plenty of things becoming ever rarer and which money can't replace simply in the modern world
Read MoreA 'Dark Ages' Of Wildlife Management Descends On The West
March 11, 2021
In MoJo's The Week That Is, Wilkinson and Sadler discuss how state legislators are setting back wildlife conservation for griz, wolves and other iconic animals
Read MoreGrandstanding With Hidden Agendas?
March 9, 2021
This week cartoonist John Potter lampoons US Sen. Steve Daines for seeking to block Deb Haaland from becoming first Native American interior secretary
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 MoreBackward Thinking Targets Bears and Wolves
March 7, 2021 // OPINION: Op-ed
Op-ed: Chris Servheen, longtime national head of grizzly recovery in Lower 48, says Montana, Idaho are degenerating into anti-predator hysteria.
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