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From Battlefield To Homefront: A Soldier Becomes A Park Ranger

March 6, 2018

Todd Johnson in Black Hawk helicopter
Todd Johnson debuts a new MoJo column called "Protecting the Home Land"
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That Which We Cannot Escape In Life

March 2, 2018

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For psychotherapist Timothy Tate, the minister's son, dealing with death requires making peace with oneself  
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Perilous Crossings

March 1, 2018

Black bear crossing the road near Obsidian Creek; NPS / Diane Renkin
Wildlife movement in Greater Yellowstone is extraordinary but every day with busy highways it's becoming extraordinarily more tenuous. A prominent member of the scientific Craighead family weighs in.
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The Big Empty Is Anything But

February 27, 2018

Badlands, western Nevada
Jackson Frishman is connected to the giants of American mountaineering. He also knows the pain and euphoria of the West
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For Hunkpapa Women, Winter Is The Season Of Dreaming

February 26, 2018

Hungry Fox Equinox by R. Tom Gilleon
Everyone dreams. Lois Red Elk writes about how a special dream society carries forth visions to which an entire community belongs
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Define The Meaning Of 'Extreme' In Talking About Forest Health

February 25, 2018

The great drying out has begun
Lance Olsen says politicians are peddling fairy tales to the gullible while greenhouse gases pose real peril
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A Life In Wonderland

February 23, 2018 // Yellowstone

Yellowstone's legendary "winter keeper" Steven Fuller takes readers on an intimate exploration of the world's first national park. Every few days he serves up a new dispatch here
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Wolverines As A Litmus Test On Human Values

February 21, 2018

wolverine moving across snow, photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Whether these charismatic animals persist first requires an honest reflection on our own biases
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The Yellowstone Caldera Is Aflutter With Recent Shakes, Rattles and Rolls

February 21, 2018

Grand Prismatic Spring courtesy of NPS /  Neal Herbert
The ground beneath Yellowstone continues to be aswarm with earthquakes. Learn why.
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Why Some Western Towns Live Or Die

February 15, 2018

 Photo courtesy Dave Touissant (photographersnature.com)
A prominent economist explains the value of public land for 21st-century America
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Projecting Nature's Beauty—Rejecting Blight In Building And Thought

February 7, 2018 // Co-existence, Community, Community Change, Growth—Good, Bad & Ugly

Projecting beauty?
Lori Ryker says we live in a spectacular place, so why doesn't architecture always treat it that way?
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Are Trump, GOP Fueling A Blue, Green Tidal Wave?

February 1, 2018 // Conservation, Public Lands, The New West

Congressional redistricting and deepening support for conservation could soon be re-shaping the map of America
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My Golden Weeping Willow—Finding Grounding In The Spectacular Ordinary

February 1, 2018 // Co-existence

A golden weeping willow (MaxPixel)
Naturalist Susan Marsh opens her old journal and muses on boredom, beauty, impermanence and the lament of a favorite tree cut down
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The Future Of The Local Small Town Ski Hill

February 1, 2018 // Big Art of Nature, Community, Community Change, Public Lands

Snow King Mountain
Sue Cedarholm paints a picture that speaks to both nostalgia and concern about Snow King
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