Sara Flitner grew up a rancher's daughter in a conservative part of Wyoming and then went on to become mayor of the state's most progressive small town. Along the way, she became a professional conflict resolution specialist. In her column, she shares her ideas on problem solving and bringing people together.
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In Divided West, Sara Flitner Guides All Sides Toward The Radical Middle
August 14, 2017 // Civil Society, Collaboration, Community, Community Change, Culture, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Mindset: Timothy Tate Analyzes The Psyches Of Mountain Towns
August 14, 2017 // Bozeman, Civil Society, Columnists, Community, Community Change
We live in a region of hopes, dreams, reinvention, greed, magnanimity and hardship playing out on landscapes visible and within. Provocatively, Timothy Tate applies the lessons he's learned as a practicing therapist to psychoanalyzing the mental state of mountain communities.
Read MoreJesse Logan Explores GYE Backcountry In From Granite To Grizzlies
August 14, 2017 // Columnists, Conservation, Endangered Species, Grizzly Bears, Public Lands, Science
Just as you can't separate the forest from its trees, you can't extract one strand of the web without stretching, stressing or breaking another. From his basecamp home in Paradise Valley, halfway between Yellowstone and Livingston, retired forest researcher Jesse Logan shares insights about climate change that's already upon us.
Read MorePainter Mimi Matsuda Provides Visual Fodder for MoJo's First "You Write The Caption" Contest
August 14, 2017 // Big Art of Nature, Mountain Journal Caption Contest, wildlife art
Bozeman artist Mimi Matsuda is a former Yellowstone ranger who enjoys having humans ponder nature from wildlife's point of view. One of her paintings is featured in MoJo's regular "you write the caption" contest.
Read MoreSteve Primm Wades Into The Sagebrush Sea
August 14, 2017 // Co-existence, Columnists, Community, Community Change, Endangered Species, Public Lands, Ranching
Most people dwelling in Greater Yellowstone might live in towns and small cities but rural people and their lands hold the key to ecological resilience. With his regular column, Sagebrush & Cranesong, Steve Primm will examine the issues relating to co-existence between country people and nature on the western front of the Greater Yellowstone region.
Read MoreColumnist Rebecca Watters Navigates Nature Without Borders
August 14, 2017 // Climate Change, Columnists, Conservation, Ecosystem Protection, Wildlife
Aldo Leopold advised the virtues of thinking like a mountain. Rebecca Watters invites us to ponder wildness from the perspective of a climate-challenged creature, the wolverine.
Read MoreGuest Opinion: Former Civil Servant Claims There's A Hidden Agenda Behind Public Lands Rhetoric
August 10, 2017
Amid the political high drama in Washington, a former civil servant warns of a well-orchestrated agenda to strip American citizens of public lands they own in the West. Barry Reiswig of Cody, Wyoming, who spent most of three decades with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, speaks out.
Read MoreSue Cedarholm Is Creating One New Painting, Every Day, For A Year
June 1, 2017 // Big Art of Nature, Columnists, Culture
Through her column, "Watercolor Diary," the Jackson Hole artist will share vignettes about her interludes outdoors.
Read MoreThe Winterkeeper's Great Chasm—As You've Never Known It Before
February 11, 2008 // Yellowstone
Besides being jaw dropping, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone has geysers, hidden spectacles and a mountain of volcanic ash.
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