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Headwaters' Report Highlights Downsides Of So-Called Green Lifestyle Economy
June 24, 2023
![New glampground along Yellowstone River in Paradise Valley, enabled by weak planning laws in Park County, Montana](/content/articles/ic_1687564178_400x300_true.jpg)
Environmentalists often condemn resource extraction, but is the 'natural amenity economy' built on industrial recreation, tourism and real estate sales better for wildlife?
Read MoreDo We Need New Maps To Protect Nature Or A New Land-Based 'Mythology'?
June 23, 2023
![Livingston, Montana and the apron of protected land around it, but for how long?](/content/articles/ic_1687541942_400x300_true.jpg)
Lee Nellis, a longtime planning guru in Greater Yellowstone, responds to Lori Ryker's call for a new blueprint in thinking about development
Read MoreIn Gallatin Gateway, Battle Rages Over Proposed 'Glampground' on Gallatin River
June 20, 2023
![The Gallatin River and site of the proposed glampground called Riverbend](/content/articles/ic_1687281247_400x300_true.jpg)
Since 2020, lawsuits and appeals dominate debate over 58-unit glampground planned for island in 'crown jewel' waterway
Read MoreLooking Past The Cliches of 'Western Art'
June 18, 2023
![Bill Stockton's portrayal of a sunset](/content/articles/ic_1686990209_400x300_true.jpg)
In her new award-winning book 'Montana Modernists,' Michele Corriel declares that artists from the West are so much more than frontier portrayals of cowboys and Indians
Read MoreGrizzly 399 And Cub—An Update From Jackson Hole
June 17, 2023
![A mother's love: 399 and cub likely to be her last](/content/articles/ic_1686984090_400x300_true.jpg)
At Summer Solstice and more than a month out of the den, 399 has devoted much time, Thomas Mangelsen says, to helping her cub understand the joy of play
Read MoreWhy Insurance Companies Are Pulling Out Of Fire-Prone Areas in California
June 15, 2023
![Aftermath of a wildland-urban interface neighborhood in Oregon that was burned by wildfire](/content/articles/ic_1686804115_400x300_true.jpg)
An emergency management expert advises on how to reduce risk. Her top suggestion: make smarter land use choices and limit development in risky areas
Read MoreIn Marley's Memory, He Chooses Survival
June 12, 2023
![Orsted credits grizzlies with giving him a reason to live](/content/articles/ic_1686581827_400x300_true.jpg)
After suffering the devastating loss of his young daughter, Brad Orsted fell into bleak darkness—then the grizzly-inhabited wild country of Greater Yellowstone led him back into the light
Read MoreTo Stop A Grizzly And How Bear Spray Saved A Life
June 6, 2023
![A large male grizzly approaches the camera in Greater Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1686093007_400x300_true.jpg)
When a grizzly bear charged Keegan David, he had seconds to
react. He shared his story with Mountain Journal.
How A Citizen Is Raising Awareness About Threat Of Grand Targhee Expansion
June 1, 2023
![Crepuscular rays over the Tetons from the "quiet side"](/content/articles/ic_1685660035_400x300_true.jpg)
Howie Garber’s new book touches on the beauty of wildness
through a photographer’s lens
Why 'Yellowstone' The TV Show Ain't The Real Montana (Or Wyoming, Or The West)
May 31, 2023
![Rowland's grandparents' place, the Arbuckle Ranch near Ekalaka, Montana](/content/articles/ic_1684640922_400x300_true.jpg)
Montana author Russell Rowland talks about divides shaking the West to its core. They go beyond rural-urban, newcomer-old timer, mountain-prairie and prosperity vs. despair
Read MoreSolving the Mystery of Hemingway’s ‘Big Two-Hearted River’
May 26, 2023
![Master engraver Chris Wormell was specially commissioned to provide original artwork for the Centennial Edition of "Big Two-Hearted River"](/content/articles/ic_1685142038_400x300_true.jpg)
John Maclean’s foreword to Hemingway’s early masterpiece in the recently published ‘Centennial Edition'
Read MoreMontana's Flaring White Nationalism Prominent In New Ray Ring Novel
May 23, 2023
![Ring on the trail of his plot](/content/articles/ic_1684681432_400x300_true.jpg)
Former journalist who worked for High Country News in Bozeman, unfurls a murder mystery that flows from the gridiron of college football and interracial relationship
Read MoreFinding Greater Yellowstone ‘Magic’ On A Rocky Ridge
May 21, 2023
![The Teton Range near the author's home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming](/content/articles/ic_1684538750_400x300_true.jpg)
Wanting to name
the priceless landmarks she visits in Greater Yellowstone’s great outdoors, MoJo
columnist Susan Marsh explores the power behind magical places
On Yellowstone’s Doorstep, Conservationists Want To Buy Out A Gold Mine
May 19, 2023
![View from Crevice Mountain, site of the proposed Crevice gold mine just north of the border to Yellowstone National Park](/content/articles/ic_1684536930_400x300_true.jpg)
To halt 'major tragedy,' Greater Yellowstone Coalition must raise $6.25 million by October
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