From killing baboon families to staging predator-killing contests, hunters stand accused of violating the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. Now they’re being called out by their own.
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The Horse Family
October 18, 2018 // Photography, Ranching, Together We Go: Women and Horses
At the U-Cross Ranch near Roy, Nicole Johnson teaches her daughters to find strength in the saddle
Read MoreReflections On The Fatal Grizzly Bear Mauling In Wyoming
September 19, 2018
Hunting guide's death is tragic and circumstances surrounding it raise many questions. A look at the nature of human-bear incidents
Read MoreTR IV: Meet A Real Theodore Roosevelt Conservationist
August 12, 2018 // Conservation, Leadership, Ryan Zinke, Wildlife
Great grandson of 'the old lion' calls moderate Republicans 'an endangered species'
Read MoreIs David Vela The Next Chief Of The National Park Service?
July 3, 2018 // Grand Teton National Park, Jackson Hole, National Park Service
Grand Teton park superintendent rumored to be top pick. Would be first Hispanic-American to oversee agency
Read MoreBighorn Canyon Makes For A Splendid Summer Getaway
June 21, 2018
Ranger Todd Johnson offers an introduction to this national recreation area east of Greater Yellowstone
Read MoreLee Metcalf: Remembering Montana's Firebrand
April 12, 2018
Mike Mansfield called Metcalf the state's greatest senator. In part 2 of Ed Kemmick's series, he also stood out as a no-apology conservationist
Read MoreA Patriot Finds Peace In The West
April 3, 2018
MoJo columnist Todd Johnson, a combat veteran-turned-Park-Service ranger, salutes the stewards of public lands
Read MoreRiding The Unwild Roar In Yellowstone
March 21, 2018
A winterkeeper explores his relationship with America's oldest national park via snowmobile
Read MoreFrom Battlefield To Homefront: A Soldier Becomes A Park Ranger
March 6, 2018
Todd Johnson debuts a new MoJo column called "Protecting the Home Land"
Read MoreTrading Away Wildness For Oil And Tax Breaks
December 26, 2017 // Opinion, Public Lands
A respected Wyoming conservationist schools a U.S. senator after he votes to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to energy development
Read MoreChronic Wasting Disease Strikes Montana And Continues Its March On Yellowstone
November 16, 2017 // Chronic Wasting Disease, Public Lands, Wildlife, Yellowstone
Part 3 in Mountain Journal's ongoing series on Chronic Wasting Disease. With ultra-deadly CWD now in Montana wildlife for first time, critics say public officials are demonstrating irresponsibility by having no coordinated plan for confronting the disease
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