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Pondering Megafauna From Here To Africa And Back

October 7, 2020

African version of a griz
Greater Yellowstone conservationist Phil Knight heads to the Serengeti and returns with more concern about the plight of species in our own wild neighborhood
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Badger Blood: In Its Reflection What Do You See?

October 7, 2020

Powerful animal medicine
As a native community loses elders to covid, Lois Red Elk shares an old story about young warriors who want to live a long life
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Has 'Collaborative Conservation' Reached Its Limits?

October 5, 2020

Will Teton Valley fill in like Bozeman and southern Jackson?
A veteran rural land use planner says we need a new narrative to save the wild American West and the essence of local communities
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When White People Stopped Indigenous Elk Hunts In Jackson Hole

October 1, 2020

Two Crow riders
Frontier racism and injustice prompted legal action that still ripples across America involving native hunting and fishing rights.  Red Lodge writer John Clayton takes a deep dive
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Wolf As Avatar: When A Lobo 'Stepson' Takes Over The Pack

September 30, 2020 // Wolves

Meet Mighty Wolf 21
Ted Kerasote review Rick McIntyre's 'The Reign of Wolf 21,' a dramatic sequel to the Yellowstone naturalist's critically-acclaimed debut about the most famous lobos on earth
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'The Modern West' Explores Struggles Small Towns Face To Survive

September 29, 2020

Bannack, Montana now a ghost town
Wyoming Public Media podcast enters second season with provocative line-up of stories ranging from modern ghost towns to race and communities confronting globalism
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Mouthwatering Social Sustenance: How Good Food Holds Communities Together

September 28, 2020

Head chef Leah Smutko in the dining room
As covid impacts deepen, supporting Fork & Spoon is a tasty, satisfying way to fight hunger and enhance human dignity. 
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American Shadowland: How Do We Stop The New Uncivil War?

September 24, 2020

What resides in our national psychic shadow?
As two Americas protest against each other, Timothy Tate in this op-ed says the only remedy is to confront the national shadow we've created. And it starts with each of us looking inward at ourselves
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What If The Burning Forests Don't Return As They Were?

September 17, 2020

The stand-altering Bridger Foothills Fire
With climate change we are confronting real-life ecological cliffhangers, disrupting nature as our ancestors knew it
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Maintaining Forward Progress With The Great Bear

September 15, 2020

What's the next step in this remarkable success story?
Randy Newberg is host of some of the most popular hunting shows on social media in America. He reflects on stalking wapiti in grizzly country and Montana's strategy for guiding bruin conservation
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How Some Outdoor Recreationists See Their Impacts On Wildlife And Wild Places

September 7, 2020

What would wild places be without wildlife in them?
MoJo's college journalist intern Lorea Zabaleta interviews a quartet of her young contemporaries about the competition for space in the backcountry
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Soulé's Last Warning: We'll Never 'Develop Our Way' To Better Conservation Outcomes

August 30, 2020

Is this the kind of wildness we want?
The late Michael Soulé, godfather of conservation biology, offered this critique of 'New Conservation" and its consequences for regions like Greater Yellowstone
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Why Wilderness Matters More Than Your Desire To Take It

August 25, 2020

What's rarer: wild places or places to ride?
Patagonia publishes essay from BIKE Magazine contributing editor Michael Ferrentino on our perceived right to ride where we want. Hint: He dismisses it.
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It's Time For Outdoor Recreationists To Not Just Be Takers

August 25, 2020

Boiling River in Yellowstone
In this thought-provoking piece, Lesli Allison, head of the Western Landowners Alliance, says people who play need to realize wildlife conservation and recreation are not the same
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