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Encounter With Grizzly—Part I: The Shooting

July 5, 2018 // Grizzly Bears

A grizzly mother with cubs
In three parts, MoJo columnist Steve Primm reflects on lessons from a hiker's killing of a bear in Wyoming's Wind River Mountains
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Is David Vela The Next Chief Of The National Park Service?

July 3, 2018 // Grand Teton National Park, Jackson Hole, National Park Service

Grand Teton Park Superintendent David Vela
Grand Teton park superintendent rumored to be top pick. Would be first Hispanic-American to oversee agency
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Why Do Some Politicians Seem To Loathe And Fear The Wild?

July 2, 2018 // Wilderness, Wildlife

Jedediah Smith Wilderness
Conservationist Dr. Franz Camenzind says "there's a push to end American wilderness as we know it"
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In A Heating-Up West, Must Business-As-Usual Conservation Be Interrupted?

July 1, 2018 // Climate Change, Forest Service

Photo courtesy US Dept of Defense
Lance Olsen says the movement of protecting ecosystems needs to change its thinking if it wants to save them
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A Hunger For Solitude During Visitor Season

June 27, 2018 // Grizzly Bears, Jackson Hole, Wilderness, Wyoming

After the guests depart, Susan Marsh savors a wild Snake and charismatic megafauna
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Terminal Flows

June 25, 2018 // Photography, Water

From the Great Basin, Jackson Frishman ponders a West when water runs out
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House Democrats Call Upon Zinke To Explain Forced Transfer of Dan Wenk

June 22, 2018 // Leadership, National Park Service, Politics, Yellowstone

President Donald Trump, Scott Pruitt and Ryan Zinke
Ranking minority member of House Natural Resources Committee wants Interior Secretary to reveal why he is forcing Yellowstone superintendent out
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Letting Go Of My Big Sister

June 22, 2018 // Family

Timothy and Beth
Aging in America sucks, says Timothy Tate, but it doesn't have to be this way
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Bighorn Canyon Makes For A Splendid Summer Getaway

June 21, 2018

A window into Bighorn Canyon
Ranger Todd Johnson offers an introduction to this national recreation area east of Greater Yellowstone
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Greater Yellowstone Photo Of The Day: Recreation Intersecting Wild Nature

June 20, 2018

A wetland near Island Park, Idaho (photo by Chris Boyer)
One glimpse at ecosystem death by 10,000 scratches
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Sage Grouse: Why Is The Trump Administration Killing A Bipartisan Plan To Save The Bird?

June 19, 2018

Greater sage-grouse
John Freemuth offers an overview of the politics affecting one of the most charismatic avians in the American West
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Why Wildlife Moves

June 15, 2018

Clovis-era hunters in Montana
Ecologist Lance Craighead digs into 13,000 years of natural history and ponders what climate change means for Greater Yellowstone
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Ryan Zinke Scores A Pyrrhic Victory In Yellowstone

June 14, 2018

Ryan Zinke at Yellowstone's doorstep
After ousting Dan Wenk over bison, Interior Secretary now must decide: will he stand behind his controversial National Park Service Director?
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Cameron Sholly Named New Superintendent Of Yellowstone

June 13, 2018

Cam Sholly and Ryan Zinke
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announces replacement for Dan Wenk
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