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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 rumored to be top pick. Would be first Hispanic-American to oversee agency
Read MoreHouse Democrats Call Upon Zinke To Explain Forced Transfer of Dan Wenk
June 22, 2018 // Leadership, National Park Service, Politics, Yellowstone
Ranking minority member of House Natural Resources Committee wants Interior Secretary to reveal why he is forcing Yellowstone superintendent out
Read MoreLetting Go Of My Big Sister
June 22, 2018 // Family
Aging in America sucks, says Timothy Tate, but it doesn't have to be this way
Read MoreBighorn Canyon Makes For A Splendid Summer Getaway
June 21, 2018
Ranger Todd Johnson offers an introduction to this national recreation area east of Greater Yellowstone
Read MoreRyan Zinke Scores A Pyrrhic Victory In Yellowstone
June 14, 2018
After ousting Dan Wenk over bison, Interior Secretary now must decide: will he stand behind his controversial National Park Service Director?
Read MoreLee Metcalf: Remembering Montana's Firebrand
April 12, 2018
Mike Mansfield called Metcalf the state's greatest senator. In part 2 of Ed Kemmick's series, he also stood out as a no-apology conservationist
Read MoreA Patriot Finds Peace In The West
April 3, 2018
MoJo columnist Todd Johnson, a combat veteran-turned-Park-Service ranger, salutes the stewards of public lands
Read MoreRiding The Unwild Roar In Yellowstone
March 21, 2018
A winterkeeper explores his relationship with America's oldest national park via snowmobile
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 MoreFrom Battlefield To Homefront: A Soldier Becomes A Park Ranger
March 6, 2018
Todd Johnson debuts a new MoJo column called "Protecting the Home Land"
Read MoreTrading Away Wildness For Oil And Tax Breaks
December 26, 2017 // Opinion, Public Lands
A respected Wyoming conservationist schools a U.S. senator after he votes to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to energy development
Read MoreChronic Wasting Disease Strikes Montana And Continues Its March On Yellowstone
November 16, 2017 // Chronic Wasting Disease, Public Lands, Wildlife, Yellowstone
Part 3 in Mountain Journal's ongoing series on Chronic Wasting Disease. With ultra-deadly CWD now in Montana wildlife for first time, critics say public officials are demonstrating irresponsibility by having no coordinated plan for confronting the disease
Read MoreA Sportsman's Moment of Truth: The Head of Trout Unlimited Weighs In
November 5, 2017
TU's President and CEO Chris Wood talks Zinke, Pruitt, Climate Change, Pebble Mine and lake trout in Yellowstone
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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