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Guest Essay: Why The Gallatin Mountains Need Permanent Protection, Especially Now
June 5, 2020
![One lake in the wild Gallatins](/content/articles/ic_1591370852_400x300_true.jpg)
As a seasonal backcountry ranger-naturalist in adjacent Yellowstone, Orville "Butch" Bach has witnessed change coming to the region for decades—and fewer spots left untouched by people
Read MoreA BLM Veteran Expresses Worries His Former Agency Is Losing Its Way
May 27, 2020
![Dubois Badlands Wilderness Study Area, Wyoming](/content/articles/ic_1590625731_400x300_true.jpg)
Huge implications for the West? In this op-ed Jim Kenna writes about questionable agency allegiances to special interests and spiraling employee morale
Read MoreSaunders, DeOpsomer Bring Experience In Community, Conservation And Business To MoJo
May 21, 2020
![Two dynamos: Emilie and Sarah](/content/articles/ic_1590101134_400x300_true.jpg)
From childhoods in Alaska and East Anglia, these dynamic women want journalism to play vital role in shaping Greater Yellowstone's future and deepen citizen stakeholdership
Read More'Unbroken Wilderness:' Big Sky And The Human Appetite For Consuming Wildness
May 15, 2020
![Snow reveals landscape fragmentation at Big Sky](/content/articles/ic_1589562550_400x300_true.jpg)
Big Sky is considered one of the biggest environmental challenges in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and its impacts are spilling into the wild Gallatins
Read MoreCoronavirus On The Doorstep: The Pandemic Reaches America’s Isolated Flyover
April 2, 2020
![Doctor from another time fighting a pandemic](/content/articles/ic_1585335980_400x300_true.jpg)
In a real-life potboiler, Sarah DeOpsomer pens a personal journal about Covid-19's arrival in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and waiting for her own (positive) test results to come in
Read MoreThe West In A Time Of Conflict: The Bundys, Public Lands And Covid-19
March 30, 2020
![Cliven Bundy](/content/articles/ic_1585603001_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Journal columnist Rebecca Watters interviews Betsy Gaines Quammen about her new book 'American Zion' |
How Can 'We' Better Live In Panic-Stricken Times?
March 28, 2020
![Words at Story Mill Park in Bozeman](/content/articles/ic_1585414600_400x300_true.jpg)
It's normal to feel stressed out and alone, so what can we do about it? Timothy Tate, Bozeman psychotherapist, shares a few thoughts about creating the transformation we need
Read MoreOf God And Guns: How The Sagebrush Rebellion Turned Into A Hotbed Of Armed Modern Radicals
March 24, 2020
![A cowboy petroglyph?](/content/articles/ic_1585089358_400x300_true.jpg)
In this excerpt from Betsy Gaines Quammen's new book 'American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West,' the author explores how Utah became the center of anti-federalism
Read MoreDoes Interior Secretary David Bernhardt Not Understand Coronavirus Threat?
March 23, 2020
![Wolf and grizzly watchers in Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1585001366_400x300_true.jpg)
Critics condemn Trump's top public land cabinet minister for telling people to visit Yellowstone and other parks during a pandemic. UPDATE: Yellowstone and Grand Teton closed Tuesday, March 24 until further notice
Read MoreYellowstone Always On His Mind
March 13, 2020
![Yochim spent his last hours devoted to Yellowstone's protection](/content/articles/ic_1584136993_400x300_true.jpg)
Until his last breath, former ranger, hiker and nature advocate Mike Yochim raced to finish a book aimed at protecting America's first national park
Read MoreWill Montana’s Senate Race Become A National Bellwether?
February 24, 2020
![Cora Neumann out for a walk in Paradise Valley](/content/articles/ic_1582528385_400x300_true.jpg)
Cora Neumann, a first-time candidate who worked with First Ladies on both sides of the political aisle, aims to unseat one of the richest lawmakers on Capitol Hill
Read MoreGreen Rebuttal: Some Advocates Say Gallatin Forest Partnership Plan Sells Mountains, Wildlife Short
February 21, 2020
![The Wild Gallatins as they stretch north from Yellowstone](/content/articles/ic_1582332111_400x300_true.jpg)
Joe Scalia says conservationists should rally around better vision for Gallatins that holds Forest Service's feet to the fire and results in more Wilderness
Read MoreLetter From A Role Model—How To Save Wildlife And People
January 21, 2020
![What is the best way to protect an elephant?](/content/articles/ic_1579625992_400x300_true.jpg)
In Gorongosa National Park, her country's iconic equivalent of Yellowstone, Gabriela Curtiz becomes the first woman tourism guide in local history. Part 1 in her ongoing series, "Gaby's Journey"
Read MoreExperts Say The Magna Carta Of American Environmental Law Is Under Siege
January 12, 2020 // Conservation, Ecosystem Protection, EPA, Public Lands
![A natural gas field in Wyoming](/content/articles/ic_1578873556_400x300_true.jpg)
Special Report: The National Environmental Policy Act benefits the lives of all Americans every day. So why is the Trump Administration weakening It?
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