Lee Nellis first wrote in Mountain Journal about the failures of conservation. Now he wants to provoke a real discussion about how not to become Colorado. Are we ready to take aversive action?
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Four Bold Ideas To Save Greater Yellowstone (And Certain To Make Some Squirm)
March 15, 2021
![Nature and former ag lands going, going gone](/content/articles/ic_1615777372_400x300_true.jpg)
What's Our Role In Saving Greater Yellowstone?
March 1, 2021
![Migrating elk, one of Greater Yellowstone's wildlife wonders](/content/articles/ic_1614451201_400x300_true.jpg)
Every one of us, who feels connected to America's 'wildlife Serengeti,' needs to rally or the wildness we treasure here will be lost
Read MoreMother Nature Never Lets Her Down
January 6, 2021
![What were the highlights of your year?](/content/articles/ic_1609949331_400x300_true.jpg)
For Susan Marsh, the year past was not a woeful one. She paints a portrait filled with colorful reminders of how the wild world remains both refuge and sanctuary
Read MoreHow The Wild World Gives Me Solace
December 3, 2020
![A red fox in the Hayden](/content/articles/ic_1607011219_400x300_true.jpg)
During the pandemic, Americans ready or not have poured into public lands. But what does escape mean for a seasoned wanderer?
Read MoreHas 'Collaborative Conservation' Reached Its Limits?
October 5, 2020
![Will Teton Valley fill in like Bozeman and southern Jackson?](/content/articles/ic_1601933097_400x300_true.jpg)
A veteran rural land use planner says we need a new narrative to save the wild American West and the essence of local communities
Read MoreHow Social Media And Bad Behavior Are Leaving Wild Places Trashed
August 13, 2020
![Delta Lake in the Tetons is a victim of Covid-19](/content/articles/ic_1597362989_400x300_true.jpg)
What has the Covid age spawned? While problems exist in all corners of public land West, naturalist Susan Marsh looks at impacts in Jackson Hole
Read MoreWhen Covid-19 Refugees Invade Our Space And Act Recklessly
June 28, 2020
![Don't worry about the future: be here now](/content/articles/ic_1593387309_400x300_true.jpg)
How Susan Marsh, a Greater Yellowstonean, is finding summer solace in her renewed gratitude for public lands
Read MoreA Black Woman Who Tried To Survive In The Dark, White Forest
June 18, 2020 // Diversity, Forest Service
![Melody Mobley](/content/articles/ic_1533160649_400x300_true.jpg)
The Forest Service's first African-American woman forester reflects on sexual assault, justice denied, and racism in one of the country’s premier land management agencies
Read MoreOn Getting Unrattled
May 22, 2020
![Is there any place to escape the worry of Covid-19?](/content/articles/ic_1590263016_400x300_true.jpg)
A psychotherapist confesses his own Covid-19 worries, when even the legendary Mother's Day fly fishing hatch on the Yellowstone River brings no relief
Read MoreHow Do We Rejoin The Interconnected Community Of Nature?
April 6, 2020
![Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights](/content/articles/ic_1586213537_400x300_true.jpg)
Naturalist turned new mom Katie Shepherd Christiansen says we ought to reflect on how we can treat wild country with more respect
Read MoreWhen The Government Tries To Think Big
March 29, 2020
![Bison in Yellowstone's Lamar Valley](/content/articles/ic_1585514075_400x300_true.jpg)
Thirty years ago, the Greater Yellowstone's first attempt at having a grand vision to protect the ecosystem turned into a whimper. What happened? A first-hand account from a civil servant who was there
Read MoreImagine If Every County And Town Planning Department Had A Staff Ecologist
February 18, 2020
![A student of 'Remote Studio'](/content/articles/ic_1582065050_400x300_true.jpg)
To protect the best of Greater Yellowstone, Lori Ryker says humans need to practice real intelligent design and make sure nature registers
Read MoreCalling Nature Writers, Poets And Videographers
February 12, 2020
![What do you have to say about Greater Yellowstone?](/content/articles/ic_1581552517_400x300_true.jpg)
Layser creative writing and journalism fellowship offers $3500 to person who wants to tell Greater Yellowstone stories. Application deadline is March 11, 2020
Read MoreWhen Green-up Arrives, Do You Suffer From 'Plant Blindness'?
February 12, 2020
![Black-eyed Susans in the Bridgers](/content/articles/ic_1581522801_400x300_true.jpg)
For naturalist Susan Marsh, winter is a great season for reflecting on what's out of sight and mind—and how each of us can appreciate new worlds
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