Is a Chronic Wasting Disease 'super-spreader' event possible in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem? Experts say Wyoming, federal agencies have created conditions ripe for disaster
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Yellowstone Primer: America's Inviolate Nature Preserve Forever Under Siege
December 8, 2020
![Yellowstone elk fed by hand](/content/articles/ic_1607481030_400x300_true.jpg)
As the country's first national park approaches its 150th birthday in 2022, Earle Layser reminds how its magic never gets a rest
Read MoreWill Road "Improvement" Harm A Beloved Corner Of Yellowstone?
October 26, 2020
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The Forest Service is upgrading a bumpy old dirt road leading to Yellowstone's magical Bechler. Ecologist Earle Layser says that's not a good thing
Read MoreSeek These Personal Adventures That Are Unlike Any Other
October 23, 2020
![Want to go grizzly watching in Jackson Hole?](/content/articles/ic_1603949834_400x300_true.jpg)
You don't have to travel around the world! MoJo's fundraising auction features extraordinary adventure experiences in Greater Yellowstone's wildlands that will create memories for a lifetime
Read MoreA Montana Judge Ousts The Nation's Public Lands Chief. Now What?
October 23, 2020
![The Uncompahgre Plateau](/content/articles/ic_1603479879_400x300_true.jpg)
Some want his decisions tossed, too. William Perry Pendley's "acting" status as Bureau of Land Management head calls into question rulings on monuments, drilling and wildlife conservation
Read MoreBadger Blood: In Its Reflection What Do You See?
October 7, 2020
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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
Read MoreA Showdown Over Elk In Paradise?
July 30, 2020
![Worries over elk and disease in Paradise Valley](/content/articles/ic_1596128108_400x300_true.jpg)
New report illuminates clash between ranchers and disease-carrying elk that has huge implications for a famous Montana valley, migrating wildlife and a scenic corridor to Yellowstone
Read MoreWhen "Collaboration" Surrenders Things That Shouldn't Be Bargained Away
July 2, 2020
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Opinion: George Monbiot, one of the foremost nature writers in the world, tells a story set in England that has parallels to Greater Yellowstone
Read MorePalms On Buffalo Skull: With Maka Unci, We Are Never Alone
June 4, 2020
![Buffalo horns: do they offer a dilemma or direction?](/content/articles/ic_1591282870_400x300_true.jpg)
Two poems to usher in summer by Lois Red Elk (Dakota/Lakota) as we contemplate the wisdom of Taku Wakan
Read More'Unbroken Wilderness:' Some Call The Porcupine And Buffalo Horn 'Holy Land'
May 14, 2020
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As animal highways important to Yellowstone Park, Bart Koehler says they are also the Gallatins' beating wild heart—and deserve protection
Read MoreOne of America's Biggest Wildlife Conservation Issues You Need To Know About
May 6, 2020
![The Wild Gallatin Crest](/content/articles/ic_1588811112_400x300_true.jpg)
Stretching between Yellowstone National Park and Bozeman, the Gallatins are the only mountains rimming Yellowstone without significant wilderness protection. Will the Forest Service show vision?
Read MoreRon Marlenee Was A Proud Burr In The Hiking Boots Of Environmentalists
April 30, 2020
![The late Ron Marlenee](/content/articles/ic_1588286556_400x300_true.jpg)
The former Montana Congressman who died this week could be prickly but he delighted in delivering zingers and representing rural people
Read MoreOf God And Guns: How The Sagebrush Rebellion Turned Into A Hotbed Of Armed Modern Radicals
March 24, 2020
![A cowboy petroglyph?](/content/articles/ic_1585089358_400x300_true.jpg)
In this excerpt from Betsy Gaines Quammen's new book 'American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West,' the author explores how Utah became the center of anti-federalism
Read MoreBaiting For Black Bears
March 5, 2020
![Will it lead to more grizzly deaths?](/content/articles/ic_1583447816_400x300_true.jpg)
Many say the controversial hunting practice violates ethical tenets of fair chair and runs counter to safe food storage guidelines in grizzly country. George Nickas offers this op-ed critique
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