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The Future Staring Us Back: Getting Serious About Climate Change
January 26, 2021
How is Greater Yellowstone being impacted? A panel of distinguished experts will provide answers Wednesday as part of Big Sky Big Ideas Fest. You are invited
Read MoreBrokaw Opens Up To Big Sky Journalist
December 21, 2020
In The New West, Todd Wilkinson interviews Joseph T. O'Connor about his interview with Tom Brokaw on topics ranging from Trump to journalism and nature
Read MoreDejection! When Getting Cut From The Team Shatters Hope
October 11, 2020
Bozeman's Eddy Prugh played alongside and earned praise from Danny Mwanga, the top player in US college soccer, but still had to survive the short-sightedness of a coach. He didn't
Read MoreA Reckoning For John Muir and Teddy Too?
July 22, 2020
Head of Sierra Club calls out organization's towering co-founder as racist, says conservation movement needs to address harm it has caused to people of color
Read MoreChasing The Dream: When Opportunity Arrives, Trying Not To Choke
July 16, 2020
Eddy Prugh was a soccer phenom in Bozeman, Montana. Then, on the way home from playing in Bolivia, two emails gave him butterflies in the gut
Read MoreChasing The Dream: The Impact Of Parents
May 17, 2020
As a soccer player in Bozeman, Montana, Eddy Prugh knew his chances of playing D-1 (and going pro) were a long shot. Then he realized he had to leave—the country!
Read MoreOne of America's Biggest Wildlife Conservation Issues You Need To Know About
May 6, 2020
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 MoreAmerica's Big Open Was Anything But Lonely Or Empty
May 1, 2020
Along with indigenous people, native animals large and small once covered North America's prairies—and in some places, they could again.
Read MoreChasing The Dream: The Journey Of A Mountain Town Kid Taking On The Impossible
April 22, 2020
A lot of young athletes dream of breaking through to college and pro careers. Montanan Eddy Prugh blazed a trail in soccer and reflects on what it demanded
Read MoreAmmon Bundy Claims Covid-19 Safety Guidelines Exploited By Government To Attain More Power
April 5, 2020
Betsy Gaines Quammen wrote a book about the Bundys. In Part 2 of an interview with Rebecca Watters, she discusses militants, the search for truth and conservation-minded Mormons
Read MoreThe West In A Time Of Conflict: The Bundys, Public Lands And Covid-19
March 30, 2020
| Mountain Journal columnist Rebecca Watters interviews Betsy Gaines Quammen about her new book 'American Zion' |
Green Rebuttal: Some Advocates Say Gallatin Forest Partnership Plan Sells Mountains, Wildlife Short
February 21, 2020
Joe Scalia says conservationists should rally around better vision for Gallatins that holds Forest Service's feet to the fire and results in more Wilderness
Read MoreAre We Giving The Wild Gallatins The Visionary Protection They Really Deserve?
December 29, 2019
By the wildlife they hold, the Gallatin Mountains are wilder than most national parks in the Lower 48. So why are the Forest Service and enviro groups balking at more extensive protections?
Read MoreWe Need Wilderness With No Apologies And No Regrets
July 4, 2019
A veteran of the American Wilderness movement says the debate over protecting the Gallatin Mountain Range near Yellowstone should not be a means for rationalizing further loss of wildlands
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