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When Cultures Collide
July 30, 2019
From the Battle of Pierre's Hole to a debate over an offensive high school mascot, Teton Valley is a perfect place for historical reflection
Read MoreStopping A Yellowstone Hetch-Hetchy: When Private Interests Nearly Put Parts Of America's First National Park Under Water
July 28, 2019
In this excerpt from John Taliaferro's new book on George Bird Grinnell, local efforts to exploit Yellowstone remind us again that past is prelude
Read MoreGeorge Bird Grinnell: His Impact As "The Father of American Conservation" Written Across Today's West
July 22, 2019
John Taliaferro's "Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West" is epic, entertaining and important
Read MoreHow Lost Words Translate Into Lost Worlds
July 18, 2019
Place names matter, even when describing the ineffable and especially if monikers provide cover for cultural amnesia
Read MoreCam Sholly's Agenda For Safeguarding Yellowstone
June 10, 2019
New superintendent of America's oldest national park lays out priorities, discussing everything from grizzlies, wolves and bison to snarled road traffic and other threats
Read MoreWildlife Diseases: A Global Expert Takes Stock Of Greater Yellowstone
May 20, 2019
Andrew Dobson discusses the consequences of artificially feeding elk in Wyoming, the positive role of predators in confronting disease and worries related to CWD
Read MoreBig Guns Want 230,000 Acres Of Gallatins Near Yellowstone Protected As Wilderness
May 14, 2019
Founder of Patagonia joins former U.S. Interior Secretary and dozens of eminent scientists who say capital "W" essential to safeguarding wildlife in core of Greater Yellowstone
Read MoreIs American Prairie Reserve Taking The West Back To The Future?
March 25, 2019
With a grand vision for rewilding native species in eastern Montana, APR is spurring a huge debate over bison, private property rights, federalism and the survival of rural communities
Read MoreIn The Winter Of Life, Dreams Prepare Us For What May Come
March 14, 2019 // Community, Community Change
Getting old need not be a season of dread. As Timothy Tate says, it can be an opportunity to embrace who we are
Read MoreWhy More Heat Means The End Of The Predictable World As We Know It
February 13, 2019
By not confronting the causes of climate change, we're setting ourselves up for huge economic and ecological impacts. A comprehensive analysis by Lance Olsen on this and the Green New Deal
Read MoreSo Help Us God: When Faith Is Used As A Blunt Weapon
February 6, 2019
With climate change, public land issues and other important matters before House Resources Committee, will lawmakers swear to God that they'll be seeking the truth?
Read MoreDreams: What Are They Trying To Tell Us?
January 22, 2019
Flowing forth from the streams of our unconsciousness are insights sometimes more profound and visions more real than what we know when our eyes are open
Read MoreForced Out Of Yellowstone
June 7, 2018 // Yellowstone
Despite Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk’s desire to end his 42-year-career in America’s first national park, Ryan Zinke’s Interior Department demands he leave
Read MoreBeyond The Mountains People Tend To Shed Their Pretensions
June 5, 2018
Psychotherapist Timothy Tate heads to the Bucking Horse Sale in Miles City and ruminates on his first Montana home
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