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Please Look Up: Goldens Are In Trouble
May 12, 2022
![How much do you know about golden eagles?](/content/articles/ic_1652365139_400x300_true.jpg)
Golden eagles are barometers for how to think about landscape changes and threats to wildlife in the West. Featured in new film, Charles Preston says these amazing birds of prey deserve our attention
Read MoreSearching For The 'Other Bob' Behind Dylan
April 25, 2022
![Dylan playing at the Civil Rights March in Washington DC, summer 1963](/content/articles/ic_1650841067_400x300_true.jpg)
In 1968, writer Toby Thompson set out for Hibbing, Minnesota on a quest to find out how Robert Zimmerman became Bob Dylan. He met the legend's high school sweetheart who inspired a Dylan song
Outdoor Recreation Equals Conservation: Debunking The Myth
April 5, 2022
![Why does Greater Yellowstone still have all of its wildlife?](/content/articles/ic_1649196270_400x300_true.jpg)
A developer's proposal to build a 'glampground' on the banks of the famous Gallatin River stokes controversy and calls messaging used by American conservation groups about recreation into question
Read MoreEruption: How Human Development Is Degrading The American Serengeti
December 5, 2021
![Big Sky and what used to be wild Montana](/content/articles/ic_1621302106_400x300_true.jpg)
Big blowups: Stunning visuals from Google Earth show how private land development and resource extraction on public lands are harming wildlife in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Read More“Never Here”: Battle Royale In MN Boundary Waters' Mine Fight Has Ties To Greater Yellowstone
November 16, 2021
![Boundary Waters: a wilderness marvel in America's Lower 48](/content/articles/ic_1637102210_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Journal interviews Becky Rom who is hoping to stop a mega copper mine, backed by Chilean investors, from harming the Lower 48's premier water wilderness
Read MoreSurrendering Nature To Politics: Are US National Parks In Retreat?
November 3, 2021
![Wapiti vs. cattle: In this range war, who should win?](/content/articles/ic_1635902051_400x300_true.jpg)
The triumph of cattle and farmers over elk in Point Reyes echoes the same public outrage involving wapiti, wolves and bison in Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Grand Canyon
Read MoreA Late Bloomer Writes Her Wild Heart
September 20, 2021 // Writing About Nature
![Carolyn Hopper in Glacier Park](/content/articles/ic_1632192490_400x300_true.jpg)
With two memoirs and a new book of nature poetry under her belt, Carolyn Keith Hopper has come a long way from growing up in the hometown of Thoreau, Emerson and Hawthorne
Read MoreA Storm Front Moves Into Red State Wyoming
September 14, 2021 // Politics, Wyoming
![Is Wyoming's referendum on Trump tearing Republicans apart?](/content/articles/ic_1631597116_400x300_true.jpg)
Liz Cheney says she is fighting for truth and country but why do facts often evade her when it comes to honest discourse about environmental issues? That's a topic for MoJo's The Week That Is
Read MoreMontana Defiantly Puts Yellowstone Wolves In Its Crosshairs
September 9, 2021 // Montana, Wolves, Yellowstone
![A member of Yellowstone's Delta Pack](/content/articles/ic_1631214833_400x300_true.jpg)
In unprecedented move, new hunting and trapping regulations would allow every wolf coming into state from America's first national park to be killed as a trophy
Read MoreHow A Mega-Mine And A 'Law Without A Brain' Were Defeated On Yellowstone's Back Door
August 26, 2021 // Activism, Mining, Yellowstone
![Henderson Mountain would have been sacrificed to mega gold mining](/content/articles/ic_1630016652_400x300_true.jpg)
A quarter century after a controversial gold mine was stopped thanks to presidential intervention, one of the green Davids who battled a powerful Canadian giant reflects on the longshot victory
Read MoreWildness Ought To Make Us All The Wiser
August 16, 2021
![Imagine Greater Yellowstone if there were no grizzlies](/content/articles/ic_1629153783_400x300_true.jpg)
We crave and need contact with nature but, as Joseph Scalia writes in this essay, technology and human numbers are shrinking back the feel of wild places. That's why, he says, we need to protect more of them
Read MoreThe Tyranny Of Individualism As Destroyer Of Communities And Wild Places
August 10, 2021
![How Gardiner rebuilds after fire: Is it a harbinger for Greater Yellowstone?](/content/articles/ic_1628638238_400x300_true.jpg)
How a fire in a Yellowstone gateway town reminds that anti-regulation is killing the kind of thinking needed to preserve the best of Greater Yellowstone. Lee Nellis weighs in
Read MoreProtecting Tranquility One Square Inch At A Time
August 2, 2021
![Steadily, we're losing last best refuges of 'natural sounds'](/content/articles/ic_1627937888_400x300_true.jpg)
Escaping the noisy human cacophony: Gordon Hempton is called 'the sound tracker' but he's really a maestro who reminds that natural harmonic bliss exists in the quietest spots of the Lower 48
In This Wolf Man, There Are Enduring Echoes Of Aldo
July 29, 2021
![The historic day wolves were restored to Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1627570644_400x300_true.jpg)
Greater Yellowstone-based scientist Mike Phillips receives Leopold Award, highest honor given by The Wildlife Society for having an impactful career in conservation
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