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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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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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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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Forced Out Of Yellowstone

June 7, 2018 // Yellowstone

Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenke
Despite Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk’s desire to end his 42-year-career in America’s first national park, Ryan Zinke’s Interior Department demands he leave
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Greater Yellowstone Photo Of The Day: Ursus arctos and Canis lupus

June 5, 2018

Grizzly and wolf
What does making space for bears and wolves on the landscape say about us?
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Greater Yellowstone Photo Of The Day: Griz On Bison

May 3, 2018

A Yellowstone grizzly on a bison
Yellowstone senior biologist Doug Smith went flying for wolves and found this scene
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A Winterkeeper Finds His Yellowstone Doppelgänger In Africa

April 25, 2018 // Wildlife, Yellowstone

Steve Fuller
Has Steven Fuller's life in the American bush left him bosebevokked?
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Slower Motion: The Joy Of Dilly-Dally In An Age Of Speed

April 23, 2018

Electric Peak, Gallatin Range, NPS Neal Herbert
Susan Marsh asks: how much of nature registers if we are zooming through it?
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A Patriot Finds Peace In The West

April 3, 2018

Former soldier Todd Johnson on a hike through Bighorn Canyon
MoJo columnist Todd Johnson, a combat veteran-turned-Park-Service ranger, salutes the stewards of public lands
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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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Beholding The Golden Green Goose That Hatched One Of The Richest Counties in America

January 22, 2018 // Economy, Ecosystem Protection, Growth—Good, Bad & Ugly, Guest Commentary

 Moulton Barn fronting the Tetons
Teton County, Wyo. Commissioner Mark Newcomb examines the cost—and dividends— of protecting a wild American ecosystem
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Beholding The Golden Green Goose That Hatched One Of The Richest Counties in America

January 2, 2018

Moulton Barn in Grand Teton National Park, Photo courtesy National Park Service
Teton County, Wyo. Commissioner Mark Newcomb examines the cost—and dividends— of protecting a wild American ecosystem
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