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Autumn Interlude: Painting Grizzly Bear Mother 399
September 25, 2017 // Grizzly Bears
![399 and Cubs Crossing Pacific Creek, watercolor 184 by Sue Cedarholm](/content/articles/ic_1506376412_400x300_true.jpg)
Grizzly 399 is the most famous modern bear in the world. Sue Cedarholm paints the matriarch as she guides her cubs through Jackson Hole on a quest to sate the hunger of hyperphagia.
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 MoreWhat's In A Yellowstone Place Name? A Man Of Infamy, It Turns Out
September 18, 2017 // Culture, 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 // Community, Community Change
![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 MoreOf Bias And Bears: Is Delisting Greater Yellowstone's Grizzlies Based On Science Or Politics?
September 12, 2017 // Grizzly Bears
![Mother's Watch, photo by Thomas D. Mangelsen (mangelsen.com)](/content/articles/ic_1505251899_400x300_true.jpg)
For several decades, Jesse Logan gained renown as a forest ecologist. He says the scientific rationale behind removing bears from federal protection doesn't hold up to scrutiny. First part in an ongoing series.
Read MoreSearching To Find The Soul Of Community In The Welter Of A Boom
September 12, 2017 // Community, Community Change, Growth—Good, Bad & Ugly
![Bozeman from the Bridger Mountains](/content/articles/ic_1505237193_400x300_true.jpg)
To save the best of what remains in Montana's Gallatin Valley, Lori Ryker says leaders and citizens must start thinking holistically—Now.
Read MoreSpying The Grand Teton From Delta Lake
September 9, 2017 // Big Art of Nature
![Sue Cedarholm's watercolor portrayal of the Grand from Delta Lake](/content/articles/ic_1504974787_400x300_true.jpg)
In her question to create a new painting every day for a year, Sue Cedarholm on Day 164, ascends to the shore of Delta Lake below the Grand Teton.
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 MoreWilderness: America's Second-Best Idea Is Under Attack—Unfortunately By Some Recreationists
September 6, 2017 // Wilderness
![Detail of Monte Dolack's painting A Peaceable Kingdom of Wilderness](/content/articles/ic_1504713041_400x300_true.jpg)
In this second part of an ongoing series on wilderness in America, MoJo columnist Franz Camenzind shines a light on efforts in Congress to roll back federal protection for wilderness. One of the main surprising instigators, he says, are mountain bikers masquerading as conservationists.
Read MoreAmerica Desperately Needs More Bill Ruckelshauses
August 31, 2017 // EPA
![William Ruckelshaus being sworn in as the first chief administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.](/content/articles/ic_1504206920_400x300_true.jpg)
Sara Flitner remembers the EPA's first chief administrator and how his approach to problem solving is badly-need today
Read MoreA Late Summer Hike In The Tetons Leads To "Rock of Ages"
August 29, 2017 // Big Art of Nature
![A view of Rock of Ages high in the Tetons by Sue Cedarholm](/content/articles/ic_1504021461_400x300_true.jpg)
In Watercolor Diary, Sue
Cedarholm is painting a new place every day. In day 155, she ventures into the
Tetons’ Hanging Canyon to spy Rock of Ages
A Montana Political Giant Says Citizens Must Hold Elected Officials To Account
August 28, 2017 // Civil Society, Politics, The New West
![Former Ambassador to China and U.S. Sen. Max Baucus](/content/articles/ic_1504813291_400x300_true.jpg)
Max Baucus, the former Ambassador to China and Longtime U.S. Senator From Montana, Says Citizens Will Get The Democracy They Deserve—If They Demand It
Read MoreEven In Paradise, Everyone Needs To Heal Something, Especially The Seemingly Invincible
August 23, 2017 // Community, Community Change
![Mountain towns cast their own shadows. Photo by Todd Wilkinson](/content/articles/ic_1504028184_400x300_true.jpg)
Confronting the myth of perfection, columnist Timothy Tate, a practicing psychotherapist in Bozeman, writes about "distress" accompanying radical changes in mountain communities
Read MoreLesson From The Great Eclipse: When We Stand In Awe Of Nature, We Become Better Citizens
August 20, 2017 // Big Art of Nature, Conservation, Ecosystem Protection, Science, The New West
![Gallatin Valley sunset by Steve Kelly](/content/articles/ic_1504027998_400x300_true.jpg)
One profound lesson from the great eclipse of 2017: Science says that people who spend more time reverentially in the great outdoors are happier, kinder and more generous