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A Good Life Writing After Years In The Forest Service
September 20, 2017 // Big Art of Nature, Conservation, Culture
![Susan Marsh](/content/articles/ic_1505843821_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Journal columnist Susan Marsh spent three decades working for the US Forest Service, working on recreation and wilderness protection in both the Gallatin National Forest of Montana and Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest. Today she's an award-wining writer.
Read MoreBrian Jarvi’s “African Menagerie” Shows How Fine Art Can Move The Masses
September 19, 2017 // Big Art of Nature, Culture
![Brian Jarvi in the studio completing his epic masterwork "African Menagerie: An Inquisition"](/content/articles/ic_1505831473_400x300_true.jpg)
Unprecedented Wildlife Painting Featuring 209 Species Was Partially Inspired By Thinking About Greater Yellowstone.
Read MoreRoadkill: An Emergency Responder, Absent A Gun, Is Handed A Grim Task
September 18, 2017 // Wildlife
![Elk, photo courtesy National Park Service/Ed Austin/Herb Jones](/content/articles/ic_1505691409_400x300_true.jpg)
When an elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is struck by a car, it forces Steve Primm to reflect on the perilous intersections between migratory wildlife, highways and people.
Read MoreWhat's In A Yellowstone Place Name? A Man Of Infamy, It Turns Out
September 18, 2017 // Culture, Yellowstone
![Army Col. John Gibbon](/content/articles/ic_1505743671_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Journal columnist Jesse Logan says Army Col. John Gibbon, who has a river and meadow named after him in Yellowstone National Park, should have those honors revoked for what he did to the Nez Perce
Read MoreIn The Modern World, Why Do We Hunt And Fish?
September 13, 2017 // Hunting
![Marshall Cutchin and son](/content/articles/ic_1505368650_400x300_true.jpg)
Marshall Cutchin, a lifelong sportsman and founder of the largest online angling magazine in the world, ponders the big philosophical questions relating to hunting and fishing.
Read MoreHow the Rest Of America Looks To Us From The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
September 13, 2017 // The New West
![The view of the world from Greater Yellowstone by Rick Peterson](/content/articles/ic_1505218087_400x300_true.jpg)
New Yorker Magazine Cartoonist Saul Steinberg Once Offered Manhattan's View Of The American West As A "Flyover". Now Mountain Journal, Thanks To The Work Of Illustrator Rick Peterson, Gets Even.
Read MoreOf Bias And Bears: Is Delisting Greater Yellowstone's Grizzlies Based On Science Or Politics?
September 12, 2017 // Grizzly Bears
![Mother's Watch, photo by Thomas D. Mangelsen (mangelsen.com)](/content/articles/ic_1505251899_400x300_true.jpg)
For several decades, Jesse Logan gained renown as a forest ecologist. He says the scientific rationale behind removing bears from federal protection doesn't hold up to scrutiny. First part in an ongoing series.
Read MoreSearching To Find The Soul Of Community In The Welter Of A Boom
September 12, 2017 // Community, Community Change, Growth—Good, Bad & Ugly
![Bozeman from the Bridger Mountains](/content/articles/ic_1505237193_400x300_true.jpg)
To save the best of what remains in Montana's Gallatin Valley, Lori Ryker says leaders and citizens must start thinking holistically—Now.
Read MoreSpying The Grand Teton From Delta Lake
September 9, 2017 // Big Art of Nature
![Sue Cedarholm's watercolor portrayal of the Grand from Delta Lake](/content/articles/ic_1504974787_400x300_true.jpg)
In her question to create a new painting every day for a year, Sue Cedarholm on Day 164, ascends to the shore of Delta Lake below the Grand Teton.
Read MoreBonded By Wild Land And Water: A Son Remembers His Dad
September 8, 2017 // Public Lands
![O'Dell Creek in the Madison Valley of Montana](/content/articles/ic_1504885069_400x300_true.jpg)
Writer Liam Diekmann in his debut column for Mountain Journal reflects on some of the greatest gifts his Father, the late conservationist Alex Diekmann, gave him.,
Read MoreSpooked By The Ghost Forests Of Greater Yellowstone
September 6, 2017
![Dead whitebark pine trees in Greater Yellowstone. Photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service](/content/articles/ic_1504803682_400x300_true.jpg)
Decades ago, Forest Service entomologist Jesse Logan feared climate change would devastate whitebark pine, an important food source for Greater Yellowstone grizzlies. Unfortunately, his prediction has proved true.
Read MoreWilderness: America's Second-Best Idea Is Under Attack—Unfortunately By Some Recreationists
September 6, 2017 // Wilderness
![Detail of Monte Dolack's painting A Peaceable Kingdom of Wilderness](/content/articles/ic_1504713041_400x300_true.jpg)
In this second part of an ongoing series on wilderness in America, MoJo columnist Franz Camenzind shines a light on efforts in Congress to roll back federal protection for wilderness. One of the main surprising instigators, he says, are mountain bikers masquerading as conservationists.
Read MoreFor A Generation, "The Blue Door" Was A Safe Space On Bozeman's Main Street
September 5, 2017
![The author contemplates the meaning of red, white and blue from behind the door of his clinical therapy practice in downtown Bozeman, Montana](/content/articles/ic_1504724628_400x300_true.jpg)
Psychotherapist Timothy J. Tate says the biggest downside of his community becoming the "it" place is the loss of handshake agreements.
Read MoreFake News And Media Bias? It's Actually Me-Bias And Most Of Us Are Guilty
September 4, 2017 // Culture
![Illustration by Diane Kaup Benefiel/Wilson, Wyoming](/content/articles/ic_1506194837_400x300_true.jpg)
In his new column, Trigger Warning, now debuting at Mountain Journal, social commentator David J Swift suggests those who embrace alternative facts can't handle the truth
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