Everybody is demanding access to Greater Yellowstone's finite wildlands but who is defending the wildlife that calls it home? A new cartoon by John Potter
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Scary Bear Tales
May 26, 2021
Grizzly oral traditions: What MoJo cartoonist John Potter overheard at a Greater Yellowstone backcountry campsite
Read MoreThe Next Endangered Species in Hip Mountain Towns: Local People
May 19, 2021
As greedy landlords convert homes and apartments into pricey short-term rentals for tourists, many longtime residents are feeling exiled from their own communities. John Potter sizes it up
Read MoreThings That Can't Be Re-Created
May 12, 2021
After a climber in Utah brazenly bolted a route across ancient indigenous petroglyphs, believing they were "graffiti," MoJo cartoonist John Potter says it spells only one thing
Read MoreAre There Enough Park Rangers To Go Around?
May 5, 2021
With record crowds poised to descend on Yellowstone and Grand Teton, cartoonist John Potter laments how rangers every year have to do more with less
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 MoreThe Adventures Of Modern Conquistadors
April 21, 2021
MoJo cartoonist John Potter laments how social media and the egos of human 'explorers' are sullying the last best wild places
Read MoreWill Jackson Hole Grizzly 399—And Four Cubs— Emerge From The Den At 25?
April 14, 2021
MoJo cartoonist John Potter reminds: As the whole world waits, let's not forget what it's like for this venerable bear mama, a quarter century old, whose own greatest threat is....humans behaving badly
Read MoreWhat Toll On Wildness When Humans Want It All?
April 7, 2021
MoJo's The Week That Is: When it comes to recreational impacts, we have to look ourselves in the mirror—and that's probably why we deny we are displacing wildlife
Read MoreNature's Liquidation—When Treated Only As Tradable Commodity
April 7, 2021
Buy Now! Everything for sale! Get it now before it's gone. MoJo cartoonist John Potter explores knowing price of everything but value of nothing
Read MoreWhat Happened After Wolf 1155 Left Yellowstone
March 31, 2021
Cartoonist John Potter ponders the message Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte is sending to the rest of the country about his state
Read MoreLeave No Trace—Of What?
March 24, 2021
In his latest comic, MoJo cartoonist John Potter tackles the human footprint and ponders the difference between re-creation and recreation
Read MoreThe So-Called 'Underutilized Backcountry'
March 18, 2021
This week cartoonist John Potter spoofs claims by federal agencies and outdoor recreationists that wildlands are practically worthless unless filled with more human funhogs
Read MoreGrandstanding With Hidden Agendas?
March 9, 2021
This week cartoonist John Potter lampoons US Sen. Steve Daines for seeking to block Deb Haaland from becoming first Native American interior secretary
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