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America's Big Open Was Anything But Lonely Or Empty
May 1, 2020
![Did you know bighorns migrate, too?](/content/articles/ic_1588367643_400x300_true.jpg)
Along with indigenous people, native animals large and small once covered North America's prairies—and in some places, they could again.
Read MoreRon Marlenee Was A Proud Burr In The Hiking Boots Of Environmentalists
April 30, 2020
![The late Ron Marlenee](/content/articles/ic_1588286556_400x300_true.jpg)
The former Montana Congressman who died this week could be prickly but he delighted in delivering zingers and representing rural people
Read MoreWhen An American Tourist Mecca Copes With Two Possible Fates: "Bad" And "Worse"
April 27, 2020
![Surreally empty: Dornan's in Grand Teton National Park](/content/articles/ic_1588022055_400x300_true.jpg)
A young Jackson Hole businessperson carrying on a family tradition fears that for many re-opening Yellowstone and Grand Teton to visitors could come too little too late
Read MoreCovid-19 And Climate Change Pose Similar Challenges For Montana And The Greater Yellowstone Region
April 26, 2020
![A forest fire in Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1587945418_400x300_true.jpg)
The arrival of novel coronavirus, two scientists say, is forcing us to move beyond short-term thinking—the exact thing preventing us from dealing with the climate change future
Read MoreOur Communities Are Being Defined By How We Respond To Covid-19
April 23, 2020
![Giving creates infectious hope](/content/articles/ic_1587673994_400x300_true.jpg)
Give Big, the annual celebration of non-profits, arrives at a crucial moment when citizens are anxious to get out—and rally. We guarantee this interview with Bridget Wilkinson will open your heart
Read MoreCelebrating The Power Of A Word: H-A-B-I-T-A-T
April 22, 2020
![Grizzly fishing in the Yellowstone River](/content/articles/ic_1587594675_400x300_true.jpg)
In this Earth Day tribute, conservationist and American safari guide Phil Knight puts Greater Yellowstone in global perspective
Read MoreChasing The Dream: The Journey Of A Mountain Town Kid Taking On The Impossible
April 22, 2020
![Eddy Prugh in action](/content/articles/ic_1587591294_400x300_true.jpg)
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 MoreGame Farms Should Warrant Greater Scrutiny In Age Of Disease Pandemics
April 21, 2020
![Captive deer bred to grow huge antlers](/content/articles/ic_1587521381_400x300_true.jpg)
In this op-ed, Wayne Pacelle calls out a controversial industry, profiting off of captive wildlife, that has been linked to spread of Chronic Wasting Disease
Read MoreTwo 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
![Setting out on the fateful morning](/content/articles/ic_1603777985_400x300_true.jpg)
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
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