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Prominent Scientists Push Back Against Delisting Grizzly Bears: Op-Ed
January 13, 2022
When it comes to assessing biological recovery of grizzlies, who is better informed—people who study wildlife for a living or governors and legislators who dislike grizzlies and wolves?
Read MoreThe Climber-Conservationist Who Literally Put Greater Yellowstone On The Map
December 28, 2021
As advocates for the Yellowstone region go, Rick Reese ranks right up there with the most impactful of all time. His legacy is written in the abundant wildlife and healthy landscapes we value today
Read More'Gunfight' Is One Of The Most Important Books You May Ever Read About Guns In America
December 22, 2021
Ryan Busse, a Montana hunter, was once a gun industry executive who helped create the uncivil war over firearms in America. Now he's trying to change the discourse before it's too late
Read More“Never Here”: Battle Royale In MN Boundary Waters' Mine Fight Has Ties To Greater Yellowstone
November 16, 2021
Mountain Journal interviews Becky Rom who is hoping to stop a mega copper mine, backed by Chilean investors, from harming the Lower 48's premier water wilderness
Read MorePacked Audience Hears Experts Discuss Biggest Threats To Famed Jackson Hole Grizzly 399, Other Bears
November 11, 2021
Miracle of grizzly conservation in Lower 48 being undermined by sloppy garbage storage, proliferating development, outdoor recreation pressure and bad laws
Read MoreHow Do We Continue The Miracle Of US Grizzly Conservation?
November 6, 2021
Fate of Jackson Hole Grizzly 399, human-bear co-existence and Montana laws hostile to grizzlies will be discussed in virtual town hall Monday night by Servheen, Hilty and Mangelsen. You're invited
Read MoreMontana’s Wildlife Depends On Private Sector Partners—Let's Reward Them: A PERC Rebuttal
October 15, 2021
Should hunting tags be awarded to private landowners who provide important habitat for public wildlife? PERC says incentivizing conservation on private land is essential
Read MoreYellowstone Confronts Its Past
October 11, 2021
Homeland and crossroads for at least 27 indigenous tribes, Yellowstone as a place has an ancient human history—one seldom acknowledged in its first 150 years as a park
Read MoreScientists Say Gianforte's Anti-Wolf, Anti-Grizzly Policies In Montana Have No Scientific Basis
October 2, 2021 // Wildlife, Wolves, Yellowstone
Prominent group of wildlife professionals with 1,500 years of experience condemn Montana's new laws targeting wolves. Already pups from popular Yellowstone wolf pack have been killed
Read MoreMontana Wolf Policies Are Destroying State's Reputation As Beacon For Wildlife Management
September 26, 2021 // Montana, Wolves
Seven respected former wildlife commissioners, all hunters, condemn Montana governor and lawmakers for their callous, unscientific promotion of wolf slaughter
Read MoreA Late Bloomer Writes Her Wild Heart
September 20, 2021 // Writing About Nature
With two memoirs and a new book of nature poetry under her belt, Carolyn Keith Hopper has come a long way from growing up in the hometown of Thoreau, Emerson and Hawthorne
Read MoreA Storm Front Moves Into Red State Wyoming
September 14, 2021 // Politics, Wyoming
Liz Cheney says she is fighting for truth and country but why do facts often evade her when it comes to honest discourse about environmental issues? That's a topic for MoJo's The Week That Is
Read MoreA City Kid Awakens To The Value Of Wild Life Conservation
August 31, 2021 // Young Writers
Gabe Castro-Root came to Greater Yellowstone on vacation from San Francisco. After visiting, he saw journalism as a way to defend it. Tom Sadler interviews the young student about his plans
Read MoreLast Trek Of The Human Wolverine
August 17, 2021
Joe Gutkoski, a legendary American conservationist, has passed away. Is his style of relentless advocacy for wildlife and wild places the only hope Greater Yellowstone has for keeping its nature from being tamed?
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