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Why Wildlife Moves
June 15, 2018
Ecologist Lance Craighead digs into 13,000 years of natural history and ponders what climate change means for Greater Yellowstone
Read MoreTraps Of Our Own Making: Climate Change, Blame And Denial
June 10, 2018
Lance Olsen lays out the undeniable scientific evidence that elected officials cannot ignore
Read MoreGreater Yellowstone Photo Of The Day: Ursus arctos and Canis lupus
June 5, 2018
What does making space for bears and wolves on the landscape say about us?
Read MoreWildness Is All Around Us—Savor And Protect Yours
May 27, 2018
Yet only a certain caliber of landscapes support the wild life found in Greater Yellowstone and few other places on earth. How do we safeguard it?
Read MoreGreater Yellowstone Photo Of The Day: Griz On Bison
May 3, 2018
Yellowstone senior biologist Doug Smith went flying for wolves and found this scene
Read MoreOf Dads And Mountain Daughters
January 30, 2018
A foundational relationship in a woman’s life, its impacts lasting a lifetime
Read MoreThe Essential Role Of Eco-Capitalism In Saving The Best That Remains
January 29, 2018 // Private Lands, The New West
Greater Yellowstone's rich tapestry will be won—or lost—based on what businesspeople do next
Read MoreThe Undeniable Value of Wolves, Bears, Lions And Coyotes In Battling Disease
December 11, 2017
Part 4 in Mountain Journal's series on Chronic Wasting Disease and the threat it poses to America's wildest ecosystem. By killing predators, are states that still cling to Little Red Riding Hood shooting themselves in the foot?
Read MoreWhen An Off-Duty Game Warden Kills A Grizzly
November 1, 2017 // Grizzly Bears, Hunting, The New West
After a mother grizzly with three cubs is shot in Wyoming, critics wonder why the person, who invoked self-defense, didn't use bear spray?
Read MoreA Tribute To The Ancient Ones High On The Mountain
October 23, 2017 // Endangered Species, Public Lands
What does a forest tell us about our past and future? Scientist Jesse Logan pays tribute to the vanishing whitebark pine and shares what it foreshadows for America's wildest ecosystem in the Lower 48
Read MoreGrizzlies Deserve More Than Bullets
September 23, 2017 // Grizzly Bears, Opinion
Phil Knight saw his first Yellowstone grizzly 35 years ago. After watching bear numbers climb, he says recovery should not be celebrated by subjecting them to sport hunting.
Read MoreMindset: Timothy Tate Analyzes The Psyches Of Mountain Towns
August 14, 2017
We live in a region of hopes, dreams, reinvention, greed, magnanimity and hardship playing out on landscapes visible and within. Provocatively, Timothy Tate applies the lessons he's learned as a practicing therapist to psychoanalyzing the mental state of mountain communities.
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