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Fewer Elk Counted This Year On Yellowstone's Famous Northern Range—But What Does It Mean?
April 5, 2019
Annual wapiti survey: apart from wolves and other wildlife meat eaters, a formidable predator is winter
Read MoreConservationists Sue To Halt Artificial Feeding At National Elk Refuge
March 18, 2019 // Chronic Wasting Disease, Ecosystem Protection, Wildlife
With Chronic Wasting Disease likely already on refuge, action is claimed as necessary to prevent disastrous disease outbreak amongst America's most famous elk herd
Read MoreA Human Toll That Can No Longer Be Ignored: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
February 11, 2019
Erika Ross gives a speech that lays out the magnitude of violence committed against women in Indian Country. Why has it taken so long to address this grave injustice?
Read MoreRobert T. Fanning, America's Premier Wolf Doomsayer, Passes On
January 7, 2019 // The New West, Wolves
Former Chicago businessman moved to Montana to hunt big game and enjoyed fame as a hater of lobos
Read MoreA Death Of Ethics: Is Hunting Destroying Itself?
December 12, 2018 // Hunting, Wildlife
From killing baboon families to staging predator-killing contests, hunters stand accused of violating the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. Now they’re being called out by their own.
Yellowstone Checkup: How Healthy Really is America's Most Iconic Wildland Ecosystem?
August 20, 2018 // Climate Change, Conservation, Ecosystem Protection, Science, Wildlife, Yellowstone
New "vital signs" report says region's famous wildlife faring well, for now, but climate change and human development loom ominously
Read MoreA Hunger For Solitude During Visitor Season
June 27, 2018 // Grizzly Bears, Jackson Hole, Wilderness, Wyoming
After the guests depart, Susan Marsh savors a wild Snake and charismatic megafauna
Read MoreThe American West's Uncivil War: What Would Wallace Stegner Think?
May 25, 2018
A MoJo interview with Don Snow about his native West. Part 1: seeing the region whole
Read MoreTogether We Go: The Ways Of Horses And Western Women
May 2, 2018
Photojournalist Louise Johns explores the special bond between ride and rider that defines our region
Read MoreThe Mighty Absaroka-Beartooth Is 40
April 9, 2018
In this two-part tribute, writer Ed Kemmick celebrates not only landmark wilderness in Greater Yellowstone but Lee Metcalf, the senator who made it happen
Read MoreMy Golden Weeping Willow—Finding Grounding In The Spectacular Ordinary
February 1, 2018 // Co-existence
Naturalist Susan Marsh opens her old journal and muses on boredom, beauty, impermanence and the lament of a favorite tree cut down
Read MoreThe Guy We All Wanted To Know—And Count As Our Friend
January 18, 2018
David J. Swift dies in Jackson Hole and we remember his everlasting spirit
Read MoreWhen Peter Pan Enters Middle Age
November 21, 2017 // Community, Community Change
So full of vim and vigor in their youth, men in many mountain towns live lives based on athletic achievement, independence and focus on self—and then middle age delivers a crushing blow of reality
Read MoreLessons From A Hunter Twice Attacked By A Grizzly Bear
October 26, 2017 // Grizzly Bears, Hunting
Todd Orr's misadventure with a sow grizzly offers insight for anyone—hunter or hiker—heading into bear country. Biggest take home: bear spray works
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