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How A Mega-Mine And A 'Law Without A Brain' Were Defeated On Yellowstone's Back Door
August 26, 2021 // Activism, Mining, Yellowstone
![Henderson Mountain would have been sacrificed to mega gold mining](/content/articles/ic_1630016652_400x300_true.jpg)
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 MoreOn Tracy Stone-Manning, Doing Dumb Things In Your 20s And The Game Of 'Gotcha'
August 11, 2021
![Tracy Stone-Manning, Biden's nominee to lead BLM](/content/articles/ic_1628730603_400x300_true.jpg)
As Biden's nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management heads toward a vote in the Senate, we reflect in MoJo's 'The Week That Was' on efforts to torpedo her confirmation
Read MoreWhen We Become Wildlife's Uninvited Guests
July 25, 2021
![She gave up hiking her favorite place this summer](/content/articles/ic_1627265583_400x300_true.jpg)
Susan Marsh laments that rising numbers of people are crowding animals out of their backcountry habitat but what to do about it—that's the question. Would you change your plans to protect wildlife?
Read MoreIn The Bull's Eye: A Human Swarm Is Overwhelming The Yellowstone Region
July 20, 2021
![Greater Yellowstone is a bull's eye for growth](/content/articles/ic_1626794579_400x300_true.jpg)
Amid unprecedented development and outdoor recreation pressure, three experts say new strategies urgently needed to save America's most famous wildlife ecosystem
Read MoreJohn Heminway: American Master Of Dramatic Earthly Storytelling
June 15, 2021
![Heminway on the trail of elephant poachers](/content/articles/ic_1623776477_400x300_true.jpg)
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 MorePausing to Say Hello—And Goodbye
June 1, 2021
![What is your memory of place (and other beings living there)?](/content/articles/ic_1622559285_400x300_true.jpg)
Naturalist Susan Marsh wonders: How many of us really see a wild place for what it is—and, if pressed, could we offer an apt eyewitness account after passing through it?
Read MoreOf Nature, Grief And Mending A Broken Heart
May 3, 2021
![We're humble but never alone in wildness](/content/articles/ic_1620002378_400x300_true.jpg)
In a moving reflection, Susan Marsh writes about losing her husband, dealing with sorrow, government service and trying to rally for the wild things that matter
Read MoreIs 'Wildland Conservation' That Does Not Emphasize Wildlife Really Conservation?
April 28, 2021
![Well-known artists, writers fill volume edited by Katie Christiansen](/content/articles/ic_1620225425_400x300_true.jpg)
Delightful new 'Artist's Field Guide To Yellowstone' offers inspiring reasons to care about protecting wildlife in Lower 48's famous bioregion
Read MorePondering Climate Change In A Red State Already Known For Its Melting Glaciers
April 11, 2021
![Sperry Glacier in retreat in Glacier National Park](/content/articles/ic_1618254644_400x300_true.jpg)
Even when state leadership is lacking, scientists say in this op-ed, progress can still be made in confronting impacts by focussing on local issues with local expertise
Read MoreFour Bold Ideas To Save Greater Yellowstone (And Certain To Make Some Squirm)
March 15, 2021
![Nature and former ag lands going, going gone](/content/articles/ic_1615777372_400x300_true.jpg)
Lee Nellis first wrote in Mountain Journal about the failures of conservation. Now he wants to provoke a real discussion about how not to become Colorado. Are we ready to take aversive action?
Read MoreWhat's Our Role In Saving Greater Yellowstone?
March 1, 2021
![Migrating elk, one of Greater Yellowstone's wildlife wonders](/content/articles/ic_1614451201_400x300_true.jpg)
Every one of us, who feels connected to America's 'wildlife Serengeti,' needs to rally or the wildness we treasure here will be lost
Read MoreWill Deb Haaland Make History Or Be Stonewalled?
February 22, 2021
![Deb Haaland of New Mexico and Laguna Pueblo](/content/articles/ic_1614016736_400x300_true.jpg)
In The Week That Is, Wilkinson and Sadler talk Interior Secretaries going back to the controversial tenure of Sagebrush Rebel James Watt of Wyoming
Read MoreGreater Yellowstone Climate Guru: 'I Worry About Our Wild Ecosystems'
January 26, 2021
![The wild and vulnerable West](/content/articles/ic_1611646142_400x300_true.jpg)
MoJo interviews Dr. Cathy Whitlock about coming climate change impacts on nature and rural communities in West
Read MoreMother Nature Never Lets Her Down
January 6, 2021
![What were the highlights of your year?](/content/articles/ic_1609949331_400x300_true.jpg)
For Susan Marsh, the year past was not a woeful one. She paints a portrait filled with colorful reminders of how the wild world remains both refuge and sanctuary
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