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How A Mega-Mine And A 'Law Without A Brain' Were Defeated On Yellowstone's Back Door
August 26, 2021 // Mining, Yellowstone
A quarter century after a controversial gold mine was stopped thanks to presidential intervention, one of the green Davids who battled a powerful Canadian giant reflects on the longshot victory
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 MoreProtecting Tranquility One Square Inch At A Time
August 2, 2021
Escaping the noisy human cacophony: Gordon Hempton is called 'the sound tracker' but he's really a maestro who reminds that natural harmonic bliss exists in the quietest spots of the Lower 48
In This Wolf Man, There Are Enduring Echoes Of Aldo
July 29, 2021
Greater Yellowstone-based scientist Mike Phillips receives Leopold Award, highest honor given by The Wildlife Society for having an impactful career in conservation
Read MoreTate: Growth Is Rapidly Changing Our Communities And We Do Not Feel Fine
July 12, 2021
By day he is a practicing therapist; for 40 years he's been a citizen in Bozeman. Timothy Tate sees many Greater Yellowstone towns losing their identity
Read MoreUnexpected Switchback: When A Jaunt Up Disappointment Peak Was Anything But
July 1, 2021
As Julie Fustanio writes, you never know who you'll meet in the Tetons. Sometimes the encounters deliver more than grand views but a better joyous perspective on life
Read MoreWith Color, Flato Has A Magic Touch
June 29, 2021
Artist Malou Flato, known nationally for her mixed media explorations of nature, shines in a new showing of oil paintings devoted to Paradise Valley, Montana
Read MoreBeloved Beasts Is A Perfect Read For The West—And Our Time
June 24, 2021
New important book by Michelle Nijhuis tracks evolution of American conservation and arrives at this conclusion: there is still hope but we have to act now
Read MoreWired Differently: Young Americans And Wildland Conservation
June 21, 2021
Professor Don Snow, life-long student of the West, reflects on the generational divides in thinking about nature—what's an improvement and what might not be
Read MorePainting The Wild Sources Of Moving Water
June 16, 2021
Dave Hall celebrates the lifeblood of Greater Yellowstone that reaches millions downstream
Read MoreJohn Heminway: American Master Of Dramatic Earthly Storytelling
June 15, 2021
From writing for legendary Wyoming outdoorsman Curt Gowdy to exposing elephant ivory poachers on film, John Heminway fights for wildness by telling the truth
Read MoreIs 'Wildland Conservation' That Does Not Emphasize Wildlife Really Conservation?
April 28, 2021
Delightful new 'Artist's Field Guide To Yellowstone' offers inspiring reasons to care about protecting wildlife in Lower 48's famous bioregion
Read MoreCovid Reflections: Before The World Shut Down Sarah DeOpsomer Got Sick
March 28, 2021
A year after the pandemic reached the interior West and brought the globe to a standstill, this Bozeman resident survived her own brush with the virus. Now she looks back
Read MoreWhat's Our Role In Saving Greater Yellowstone?
March 1, 2021
Every one of us, who feels connected to America's 'wildlife Serengeti,' needs to rally or the wildness we treasure here will be lost
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