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Montana Defiantly Puts Yellowstone Wolves In Its Crosshairs
September 9, 2021 // Montana, Wolves, Yellowstone
In unprecedented move, new hunting and trapping regulations would allow every wolf coming into state from America's first national park to be killed as a trophy
Read MoreNext Act: Let The Bugling (Of Bull Elk) Begin In Yellowstone
August 29, 2021 // Elk, Wildlife, Yellowstone Winterkeeper
Autumn arrives sooner on the Yellowstone Plateau than most other places in the Lower 48. Winterkeeper and Mountain Journal columnist Steven Fuller chronicles the start of a glorious season of jousting
Read MoreHow A Mega-Mine And A 'Law Without A Brain' Were Defeated On Yellowstone's Back Door
August 26, 2021 // Activism, 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 MoreWhy Do We Run Away?
August 23, 2021 // Community Change, Culture, Growth
Maybe the only hope we have to stop our towns and wild places from changing is to change our belief that their destruction is inevitable. But, as Timothy Tate writes, it's almost impossible to do
Read MoreLast Trek Of The Human Wolverine
August 17, 2021
Joe Gutkoski, a legendary American conservationist, has passed away. Is his style of relentless advocacy for wildlife and wild places the only hope Greater Yellowstone has for keeping its nature from being tamed?
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
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