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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 // 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 // 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

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 // Public Lands

Snow King Mountain
Sue Cedarholm paints a picture that speaks to both nostalgia and concern about Snow King
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The Essential Role Of Eco-Capitalism In Saving The Best That Remains

January 29, 2018 // Private Lands, The New West

Ted Turner  Photo by Todd Wilkinson
Greater Yellowstone's rich tapestry will be won—or lost—based on what businesspeople do next
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Yellowstone Winterkeeper Remembers His Famous Story In National Geographic

January 29, 2018 // Yellowstone

Yellowstone winterkeeper Steven Fuller, photo by Kerry Huller
Forty years ago, Steven Fuller wrote a story for National Geographic on the park's cold extreme isolation. Now he takes a look back
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Who Is Willing To Defend American Wilderness?

January 24, 2018 // Public Lands, Wilderness

The Palisades Wilderness Study Area in Wyoming
As attacks on wilderness and environmental laws rage, many citizens wonder why some prominent conservation groups seem to be missing in action?
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Dreaming of Grass Roofs

January 24, 2018 // Growth—Good, Bad & Ugly

Eagle Rock Sod Roof House, Bozeman, Montana
MoJo columnist Lori Ryker highlights organic architecture that celebrates place by blending into it
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