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Chasing 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 MoreDigging Out: When Surviving Two Avalanches Is Just The Start Of Dealing With Trauma
April 18, 2020
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 MoreChronic Wasting Disease: America's Homegrown Contagion That Lumbers On Four Hooves
April 12, 2020
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
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
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
How does poet Lois Red Elk find grounding in challenging times? By honoring the soulful sustenance of the creator's gifts
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 MoreWhen The War Finally Comes (to America's First National Park)
April 4, 2020
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
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
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
| Mountain Journal columnist Rebecca Watters interviews Betsy Gaines Quammen about her new book 'American Zion' |
When The Government Tries To Think Big
March 29, 2020
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 MoreHow Can 'We' Better Live In Panic-Stricken Times?
March 28, 2020
It's normal to feel stressed out and alone, so what can we do about it? Timothy Tate, Bozeman psychotherapist, shares a few thoughts about creating the transformation we need
Read MoreOf God And Guns: How The Sagebrush Rebellion Turned Into A Hotbed Of Armed Modern Radicals
March 24, 2020
In this excerpt from Betsy Gaines Quammen's new book 'American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West,' the author explores how Utah became the center of anti-federalism
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