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Cowboying Up Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Be Vulnerable
March 28, 2022
Western men and women often evince the "I don't need nobody to care for me" look but all they really want is to feel connection. A new column about toughness by psychotherapist Timothy Tate
Read MoreIt Started With A Pilgrimage To Wonderland
March 23, 2022
In the first of a three-part series, "Reflections on a Changed and Changing Yellowstone," writer Earle F. Layser remembers his first visit to America's first national park 75 years ago compared to today
Read MoreWherever You Find Fun Outside, Crazy Creek Has Your Back Covered
March 23, 2022
Red Lodge, Montana-based maker of portable chairs, a favorite of active outdoorspeople in the Rockies, is also devoted to protecting the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Read MoreHow Much Is Enough? (To Save Or Destroy A World-Class Ecosystem?)
March 13, 2022
New ongoing MoJo series comes at time of record visitation to Yellowstone and Jackson Hole, crowded rivers, exploding development pressure, surging outdoor recreation and climate change
Read MoreProminent Scientists Push Back Against Delisting Grizzly Bears: Op-Ed
January 13, 2022
When it comes to assessing biological recovery of grizzlies, who is better informed—people who study wildlife for a living or governors and legislators who dislike grizzlies and wolves?
Read MoreScientists Say Gianforte's Anti-Wolf, Anti-Grizzly Policies In Montana Have No Scientific Basis
October 2, 2021 // Wildlife, Wolves, Yellowstone
Prominent group of wildlife professionals with 1,500 years of experience condemn Montana's new laws targeting wolves. Already pups from popular Yellowstone wolf pack have been killed
Read MoreForest Service "Debacle" In Black Hills Must Not Be Repeated Elsewhere
September 22, 2021 // Forest Service, Logging
Former second in command of US Forest Service questions agency's accelerated push to thin forests and log big trees in response to fire, insects and climate change. Felling forests, Jim Furnish says, is not a strategy to save them
Read MoreWildness Ought To Make Us All The Wiser
August 16, 2021
We crave and need contact with nature but, as Joseph Scalia writes in this essay, technology and human numbers are shrinking back the feel of wild places. That's why, he says, we need to protect more of them
Read MoreThis Generation Will Be Judged By Whether It Let Salmon Runs Go Extinct
July 27, 2021
Chris Wood, the national leader of Trout Unlimited, writes in this guest essay that salmon and steelhead can recover if given a chance. But time is running out
Read MoreSo, You're Non-White And You Really Want To Work For The US Forest Service?
July 14, 2021
Melody Mobley, the first African-American woman forester in the storied land management agency, offers suggestions following a career punctuated by adversity
Read MoreCease Fire Now: Should Public Lands Be Places Where Politics Are Checked At The Trailhead?
June 25, 2021
Chris Hunt escaped to a river to fly fish. Back at camp, he met a citizen who was there at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Then, around a campfire, all hell nearly broke loose
Read MoreStudy: Wolves Bring Fewer Car Wrecks, Save Money And Human Lives
May 26, 2021
New research paper raises tantalizing questions about value of wolves in Wisconsin, especially as western states plot their 21st century re-extermination
Read More"Antler Scouts" Enter A Brave New Era
May 11, 2021
Julie Fustanio reports from Jackson Hole on the annual frenzy of gathering shed wildlife antlers, the covid effect and scouting bringing equality to girls
Read More'To Reach The Spring' Is A Wake Up Call For Ecosystem And Planet
April 15, 2021
Charlie Quimby reviews Nathaniel Popkin's thought-provoking new book which asks: How and why are we programmed to gluttonously consume Earth's resources, including wildness?
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