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When Green-up Arrives, Do You Suffer From 'Plant Blindness'?
February 12, 2020
For naturalist Susan Marsh, winter is a great season for reflecting on what's out of sight and mind—and how each of us can appreciate new worlds
Read MoreBe Active, Reject Despair: Conflict Is Always A Catalyst For Positive Change
January 13, 2020
Receiving honorary doctorate, Mike Clark tells college graduates American democracy at turning point; meanwhile, Diana Blank bestowed with MSU President's Medallion
Read MoreIn Home Land
November 28, 2019
Long before the Absaroka-Beartooths became a federal wilderness and before Yellowstone was called 'wonderland,' they were home ground to the Crow. An essay by Shane Doyle
Read MoreLiving In A Community Means Politicians Having The Courage To Take Media And Citizen Questions
October 26, 2019
Every elected leader faces a choice: tell the truth and do what's right for country and civility or deepen the divide
Read MoreNational Flashpoint: The Gallatin Range Is Ground Zero For Americans Talking About Wilderness
September 30, 2019
History shows those pushing for mountain bikes in wilderness have no factual traction. Read this excerpt of Todd Burritt's book on Greater Yellowstone
Read MoreSoliloquy For The Fall: Nature Is A Place Where Non-conformists Can Find Themselves
September 29, 2019
Susan Marsh riffs eloquently on connecting to place, loss of place and what's worth saving. Are we in Greater Yellowstone listening?
Read MorePaying Forward Wildness In A World Consumed By Self-Interest
September 11, 2019
Timothy Tate treks into the Yellowstone backcountry and ruminates on an ethic present in three generations
Read MoreMy Yellowstone Mauling And Mountaintop Rescue: An Exclusive Excerpt
September 2, 2019
In his new memoir, 'One of Us,' bear biologist Barrie Gilbert recounts his own brutal grizzly attack and the reasons behind his passion for large landscape conservation
Read MorePutting Pendley In Charge Of BLM Reveals Trump's True Radical Agenda For The West?
August 19, 2019
Columnist Tim Crawford says if you worried about former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Pendley is more frightening
Read MoreCurbing Our Egos In All Ages
June 23, 2019
Why is it so hard for younger folk to embrace restraint in our consumption of nature? Is a new form of 'athletic Manifest Destiny' upon us? Timothy Tate ruminates.
Read MoreWhen Raptors Visit
May 20, 2019
Two poems by Lois Red Elk remind that neither we, nor animals, are "others" in the natural world
Read MoreJohn Heyneman Returns To Home Range
April 1, 2019
Wyoming rancher Heyneman, who grew up near Fishtail, Montana, has a personal family connection to the legendary Padlock Ranch and once left a big impression on Wallace Stegner
Read MoreIs American Prairie Reserve Taking The West Back To The Future?
March 25, 2019
With a grand vision for rewilding native species in eastern Montana, APR is spurring a huge debate over bison, private property rights, federalism and the survival of rural communities
Read MoreSome Call Her 'The Owl Whisperer'
March 18, 2019 // Art, Photography, Wildlife
Ashleigh Scully is a rising Millennial star in wildlife photography. Enjoy a Mountain Journal interview with the conservation-minded phenom