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Killing The Yellowstone Icons They Are Encharged to Protect
April 15, 2018
![Still image taken from Yellowstone NPS video](/content/articles/ic_1523834786_400x300_true.jpg)
Park Superintendent Dan Wenk talks about how his rangers loathe having to destroy bison to appease the Montana Department of Livestock
Read MoreLee Metcalf: Remembering Montana's Firebrand
April 12, 2018
![Montana's Lee Metcalf stood tall with giants](/content/articles/ic_1523469629_400x300_true.jpg)
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 MoreWeakening Wilderness Act Is Antithetical To Principle Of Landmark Law
April 10, 2018
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Writer Michael Dax says efforts by hardcore recreation user groups to undermine wilderness protection are self-serving and short-sighted
Read MoreWhat Would The Muries Say About Recreation, Conservation And Wildness?
April 10, 2018
![Aldo Leopold and Olaus Murie](/content/articles/ic_1523382982_400x300_true.jpg)
Martin Murie answered the question. The late son of Olaus and Mardy Murie penned this piece only a few months before he died in 2012.
Read MoreIn Yellowstone Bison Controversy, Would 'Supervaccine' Be A Silver Bullet Solution?
April 9, 2018
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Yellowstone superintendent Dan Wenk notes that slaughter of bison is really a battle over public land grass with livestock industry
Read MoreThe Mighty Absaroka-Beartooth Is 40
April 9, 2018
![The Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness towering over Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1523231935_400x300_true.jpg)
In this two-part tribute, writer Ed Kemmick celebrates not only landmark wilderness in Greater Yellowstone but Lee Metcalf, the senator who made it happen
Read MoreShifting Values: Are Funhog Towns 'Better' Than The Ones They're Replacing?
April 4, 2018
![Composite photo by MoJo staff. Biker photo courtesy Courtney Nash. Large bear photo courtesy Wikimedia user Kallerna. Cub photos courtesy Yellowstone NPS](/content/articles/ic_1522868774_400x300_true.jpg)
Everybody wants to use the resources of Greater Yellowstone. But how are such uses benefitting wildlife and wild places that make our region world-renowned?
Read MoreIs Montana Being Guided Back To A Dickensian Future?
April 3, 2018
![The high plains around Otter Creek, Montana](/content/articles/ic_1522775662_400x300_true.jpg)
Goat rancher Alexis Bonogofsky pens a letter to Montana's secretary of state 'congratulating' him for his position on coal
Read MoreA MoJo Short Story Video: Are Elk Or Yellowstone Bison The Real Disease Threat?
April 3, 2018
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Yellowstone Superintendent says science proves park buffalo are not the menaces Montana portrays them to be
Read MoreA Patriot Finds Peace In The West
April 3, 2018
![Former soldier Todd Johnson on a hike through Bighorn Canyon](/content/articles/ic_1522705219_400x300_true.jpg)
MoJo columnist Todd Johnson, a combat veteran-turned-Park-Service ranger, salutes the stewards of public lands
Read MoreWhen The Meadowlark Sings Oiyokipi Omaka Teca
April 2, 2018
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For Lois Red Elk and other prairie dwellers, springtime means 'Take joy, the world is made anew'
Read MoreThe Desert Wears Its Spring Bonnet
April 1, 2018
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Although superbloom isn't likely this year in the Mojave, our man in the Great Basin offers this report
Read MoreOf Young Men And Reform School
April 1, 2018
![Corrections officials chat behind the fence at Pine Hills.](/content/articles/ic_1522528953_400x300_true.jpg)
In this age of firearm proliferation, how do we stop tragedy and who decides if a troubled teen can be healed?
Read MorePlummeting Morale In The Forest Service: Why It Should Matter To Americans Who Love Nature
March 27, 2018
![The Bridger-Teton National Forest. Image courtesy imgur user Show Us Your Togwotee](/content/articles/ic_1522194041_400x300_true.jpg)
Another tour de force piece from Susan Marsh on a once proud federal public land agency
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