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Citizen Crawford Asks: Is Bozeman Becoming A Banana Republic For A New Breed Of Investor-Saviors?
October 26, 2017
![Requiem for Bozeman's historic districts? Andy Holloran's newly-approved Black and Olive development. The terraces in the back, at right, tower two stories over an historic house.](/content/articles/ic_1509040290_400x300_true.jpg)
Downtown Bozeman, Montana Businessman And MoJo Columnist Tim Crawford Says The City Made A Mockery Of Citizen Democracy With Its Black-Olive Decision
Read MoreTwo Meditations On Mni Sose, Water, Mother Earth and Standing Rock
October 24, 2017 // Water
![Mni Sose Photo by Todd Wilkinson](/content/articles/ic_1508888633_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Journal's Poet In Residence Lois Red Elk Reed Unveils A New Work Focussed On Mni Sose, The Missouri River
Read MoreWhither The Mighty Wolverine?
October 22, 2017 // Endangered Species, Public Lands, Wildlife
![Wolverine moving across snow, photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service](/content/articles/ic_1508131139_400x300_true.jpg)
Few in number and scattered sparsely across huge geographic areas, wolverines are still hanging on in Greater Yellowstone. But for how long? Rebecca Watters says they need a human strategy to insure their persistence.
Read MoreGeorge Carlson's Perpetual State Of Wonder
October 9, 2017 // MoJo Profile
!["Sentinel Bluffs" by George Carlson](/content/articles/ic_1507532406_400x300_true.jpg)
George Carlson is considered one of the best contemporary nature painters in the world. Mountain Journal visited the American master at his studio and took a deep dive into his reverence for wild landscapes
Read MoreCharting The Rise Of A Famous Grizzly Bear Mother In Jackson Hole
October 3, 2017 // Grizzly Bears, The New West
!["First Light-Grizzly", Thomas Mangelsen's photograph of Grizzly 399 crossing the Snake River, is awe-inspiring. But events in a bear's life can turn on perilous moments.](/content/articles/ic_1507066589_400x300_true.jpg)
People Forget That Before Grizzly 399 Became The World's Most Famous Bear, There Was Jackson Hole Grizzly Mama 474
Read MoreTouching Meaning In A Small-Town Funeral Procession
October 1, 2017
![Photo by Timothy Tate](/content/articles/ic_1506878350_400x300_true.jpg)
Bozeman, Montana Psychotherapist Timothy Tate Riffs On The Struggles Of Finding Purpose While Living Beneath The Big Western Sky
Read MoreTo Be A Man, Real Warriors Don't Have To Kill Lions
September 26, 2017
![Daniel Ole Sambu](/content/articles/ic_1506439679_400x300_true.jpg)
America's wildest ecosystem can learn some valuable lessons about human-predator conflicts from Daniel Ole Sambu and his campaign to protect African lions
Read MoreGrizzlies Deserve More Than Bullets
September 23, 2017 // Grizzly Bears, Opinion
![The Great Bear, photograph by Phil Knight](/content/articles/ic_1506181865_400x300_true.jpg)
Phil Knight saw his first Yellowstone grizzly 35 years ago. After watching bear numbers climb, he says recovery should not be celebrated by subjecting them to sport hunting.
Read MoreA Good Life Writing After Years In The Forest Service
September 20, 2017
![Susan Marsh](/content/articles/ic_1505843821_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Journal columnist Susan Marsh spent three decades working for the US Forest Service, working on recreation and wilderness protection in both the Gallatin National Forest of Montana and Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest. Today she's an award-wining writer.
Read MoreWhat's In A Yellowstone Place Name? A Man Of Infamy, It Turns Out
September 18, 2017 // Yellowstone
![Army Col. John Gibbon](/content/articles/ic_1505743671_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Journal columnist Jesse Logan says Army Col. John Gibbon, who has a river and meadow named after him in Yellowstone National Park, should have those honors revoked for what he did to the Nez Perce
Read MoreSelling Off The Historic Playground To Pay For Growth
September 14, 2017
![The historic lawn of the Emerson Cultural Center in Bozeman](/content/articles/ic_1505356185_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Journal columnist and downtown Bozeman businessman Tim Crawford says growth doesn't pay for itself. And there's no better example than Bozeman public school officials potentially selling off a beloved historic playground to meet budget shortfalls.
Read MoreBonded By Wild Land And Water: A Son Remembers His Dad
September 8, 2017 // Public Lands
![O'Dell Creek in the Madison Valley of Montana](/content/articles/ic_1504885069_400x300_true.jpg)
Writer Liam Diekmann in his debut column for Mountain Journal reflects on some of the greatest gifts his Father, the late conservationist Alex Diekmann, gave him.,
Read MoreSpooked By The Ghost Forests Of Greater Yellowstone
September 6, 2017
![Dead whitebark pine trees in Greater Yellowstone. Photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service](/content/articles/ic_1504803682_400x300_true.jpg)
Decades ago, Forest Service entomologist Jesse Logan feared climate change would devastate whitebark pine, an important food source for Greater Yellowstone grizzlies. Unfortunately, his prediction has proved true.
Read MoreThe Voice Of Lois Red Elk-Reed Hails From The Real Old Old West
September 5, 2017
![Lois Red Elk-Reed and husband, Dennis, at Standing Rock in autumn 2016](/content/articles/ic_1504588345_400x300_true.jpg)
From working on multiple fronts to preserve her culture to advising Hollywood on its portrayals of native people, Lois Red Elk-Reed, of Fort Peck, Montana, has gained acclaim as an "organic poet".
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