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Scientist Says Wildlife Impacts Should Be Considered In Outdoor Recreation Decisions
December 14, 2020
![Our playground is their home](/content/articles/ic_1607994478_400x300_true.jpg)
April Craighead says between development and surging recreation pressure on public lands, nature is getting pounded around Bozeman
Read MoreWhy A District Ranger Became Disgruntled With The US Forest Service
June 9, 2020
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Hank Rate remembers when the Custer-Gallatin National Forest stalled wilderness protection and abandoned conservation in favor of getting the cut out
Read MoreYoung And Roused: Movement In West Strives To Remake Communities Wholer
June 7, 2020
![Forward Montana a part of youth movement](/content/articles/ic_1591554076_400x300_true.jpg)
In Rockies, Forward Montana empowers leaders to confront injustice, navigate corona uncertainty, and challenge economic disparity. One of its staffers explains how
Read MoreTo Kill A Migrating Antelope In Wyoming
May 13, 2020
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Franz Camenzind reflects on a premonition he had long ago that provided a lesson in how the straight-lined human world collides with the pathways of wildlife
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
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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
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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
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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 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 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 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 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' |