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Two Metrics Point At Tail-spinning Economy In Jackson Hole
April 19, 2020
![Jackson Hole a barometer for Greater Yellowstone economy](/content/articles/ic_1587337973_400x300_true.jpg)
Jonathan Schechter, a noted data wonk and local elected official, looks at airport traffic and newspaper ads to gain a sense of Covid-19's impacts on a main tourism hub in Greater Yellowstone
Read MoreDigging Out: When Surviving Two Avalanches Is Just The Start Of Dealing With Trauma
April 18, 2020
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Ken Scott was buried for more than an hour, unable to move. He had lost hope. In part two of his story, he writes about the anguish in learning to breath again
Read MoreStop The Stalling: Montana Ought To Have A Public Bison Herd
April 15, 2020
![Wild bison called Montana home for millennia](/content/articles/ic_1586984394_400x300_true.jpg)
In this op-ed, conservationist Jim Bailey says doing what's right for a state wildlife icon needs to prevail
Read MoreAre America's Greatest Wildlife Migrations Being Sacrificed To Fossil Fuels?
April 14, 2020
![Pronghorn on the move for survival](/content/articles/ic_1586899892_400x300_true.jpg)
Writer and ecologist Franz Camenzind investigates why some of Greater Yellowstone's biggest animal wonders are imperiled. Part 1 in an ongoing series Epic Journeys—Views from the Front Lines of America's Greatest Wildlife Migrations
Read MoreChronic Wasting Disease: America's Homegrown Contagion That Lumbers On Four Hooves
April 12, 2020
![Acronym for a series emerging zoosis (disease)](/content/articles/ic_1586653992_400x300_true.jpg)
Forget, for a moment, Covid-19 and bats. Epidemiologists say we need to take seriously this wildlife version of Mad Cow rapidly spreading across the country. First in a new investigative series
Read MorePerpetual Resurrection: New Life Springs From What Came Before
April 12, 2020
![An old tree keeps giving back](/content/articles/ic_1586720802_400x300_true.jpg)
As Jackson Hole poet Libby Crews Wood notes, all of us, every living being, contributes to the masterpiece of Nature
Read MoreWhat Can Greater Yellowstone Learn From Africa? (Remembering Garth Owen-Smith 1944-2020)
April 11, 2020
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From sport hunting iconic species to giving local communities ownership over wildlife, Namibia may do things that drive some American conservationists crazy, but it has slowed and reversed the decimation of wildlife
Read MoreThe Spirit World Is Never Apart
April 7, 2020
![Red Elk: count your natural blessings](/content/articles/ic_1586282517_400x300_true.jpg)
How does poet Lois Red Elk find grounding in challenging times? By honoring the soulful sustenance of the creator's gifts
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 MoreAmmon Bundy Claims Covid-19 Safety Guidelines Exploited By Government To Attain More Power
April 5, 2020
![Like father, like son: Cliven and Ammon Bundy](/content/articles/ic_1586116552_400x300_true.jpg)
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 MoreWhen The War Finally Comes (to America's First National Park)
April 4, 2020
![A bison trying to survive winter in Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1586047499_400x300_true.jpg)
Ready for survivalism, are you? Yellowstone winterkeeper Steven Fuller indelicately dismantles the End-Times fantasy. There is no place humans can run to escape ourselves
Read MoreHowling, To Your Heart's Content
April 3, 2020
![Painting title "Van Gogh Never Howled To The Moon."](/content/articles/ic_1585929936_400x300_true.jpg)
Westerners aren't singing like Caruso from their balconies; they're greeting each other like a pack of fellow lonesome lobos
Read MoreCoronavirus On The Doorstep: The Pandemic Reaches America’s Isolated Flyover
April 2, 2020
![Doctor from another time fighting a pandemic](/content/articles/ic_1585335980_400x300_true.jpg)
In a real-life potboiler, Sarah DeOpsomer pens a personal journal about Covid-19's arrival in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and waiting for her own (positive) test results to come in
Read MoreThe West In A Time Of Conflict: The Bundys, Public Lands And Covid-19
March 30, 2020
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Mountain Journal columnist Rebecca Watters interviews Betsy Gaines Quammen about her new book 'American Zion' |