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Yellowstone's New Chief Breaks The Silence
July 17, 2018 // Hunting, Leadership, Wildlife, Yellowstone
In a Mountain Journal exclusive, Cameron Sholly talks Dan Wenk, Ryan Zinke's controversial moves and taking the helm of America's oldest national park
Read MoreWhy Wildlife Moves
June 15, 2018
Ecologist Lance Craighead digs into 13,000 years of natural history and ponders what climate change means for Greater Yellowstone
Read MoreA Winterkeeper Finds His Yellowstone Doppelgänger In Africa
April 25, 2018 // Wildlife, Yellowstone
Has Steven Fuller's life in the American bush left him bosebevokked?
Read MoreBrandborg Worried Conservation Movement Has Lost Its Edge
April 17, 2018
Dead at 93, former head of The Wilderness Society said environmental groups have forgotten how to fight the good fight
Read MoreWyoming’s Oracle of Cyberspace Searched For A Better Community
April 16, 2018
John Perry Barlow recognized the possibility of virtual reality but his reset button was the natural world
Read MoreWeakening Wilderness Act Is Antithetical To Principle Of Landmark Law
April 10, 2018
Writer Michael Dax says efforts by hardcore recreation user groups to undermine wilderness protection are self-serving and short-sighted
Read MoreShifting Values: Are Funhog Towns 'Better' Than The Ones They're Replacing?
April 4, 2018
Everybody wants to use the resources of Greater Yellowstone. But how are such uses benefitting wildlife and wild places that make our region world-renowned?
Read MoreFor Yellowstone And America, Climate Change Brings Our Moment Of Truth
March 20, 2018
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem sits at the epicenter of a huge disruption from rising temperatures. Skiing will be the first of many major casualties
Read MorePerilous Crossings
March 1, 2018
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.
Read MoreA 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
Read MoreYellowstone Winterkeeper Remembers His Famous Story In National Geographic
January 29, 2018 // Yellowstone
Forty years ago, Steven Fuller wrote a story for National Geographic on the park's cold extreme isolation. Now he takes a look back
Read MoreWho Is Willing To Defend American Wilderness?
January 24, 2018 // Public Lands, Wilderness
As attacks on wilderness and environmental laws rage, many citizens wonder why some prominent conservation groups seem to be missing in action?
Read MoreThe Language Of Snow As A Vocabulary Of Place
January 22, 2018 // Yellowstone
For Yellowstone winterkeeper Steven Fuller, special words describe the park's frozen world
Read MoreAmerica's National Elk Refuge: A ‘Miasmic Zone Of Life-Threatening Diseases'
October 17, 2017 // Public Lands, Science, Wildlife
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is known internationally for its wildlife. With the arrival of Chronic Wasting Disease looming, the epicenter of a deadly outbreak would be western Wyoming and the home to America's "national elk herd". Part 2 in Mountain Journal's series looking at the coming wildlife plague.
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