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With Color, Flato Has A Magic Touch
June 29, 2021
![Paradise Valley Cloud by Malou Flato](/content/articles/ic_1624997258_400x300_true.jpg)
Artist Malou Flato, known nationally for her mixed media explorations of nature, shines in a new showing of oil paintings devoted to Paradise Valley, Montana
Read MoreBeloved Beasts Is A Perfect Read For The West—And Our Time
June 24, 2021
![Nijhuis: We've rallied before—and we can again](/content/articles/ic_1624519794_400x300_true.jpg)
New important book by Michelle Nijhuis tracks evolution of American conservation and arrives at this conclusion: there is still hope but we have to act now
Read MoreBears Again Paying The Price When People Behave Badly
June 23, 2021
![How again is Felicia a "problem" bear?](/content/articles/ic_1624456412_400x300_true.jpg)
John Potter wonders aloud: what teaching moment is being squandered as wildlife managers heavy-handedly respond to grizzly bear mother "Felicia" and cubs on Wyoming's Togwotee Pass?
Read MoreJohn Heminway: American Master Of Dramatic Earthly Storytelling
June 15, 2021
![Heminway on the trail of elephant poachers](/content/articles/ic_1623776477_400x300_true.jpg)
From writing for legendary Wyoming outdoorsman Curt Gowdy to exposing elephant ivory poachers on film, John Heminway fights for wildness by telling the truth
Read MoreTrout Barbs: Read Their Lips
June 9, 2021
![Who's having more fun—anglers or the fish they catch?](/content/articles/ic_1623222173_400x300_true.jpg)
Cartoonist John Potter considers the growing juggernaut of Western fly fishing from the perspective of anglers and their sentient freshwater quarry
Read MoreAll Aboard The Bustling New Trails To "Nowhere"
June 2, 2021
![Wildlife want to know: what is conservation?](/content/articles/ic_1622658259_400x300_true.jpg)
Everybody is demanding access to Greater Yellowstone's finite wildlands but who is defending the wildlife that calls it home? A new cartoon by John Potter
Read MoreScary Bear Tales
May 26, 2021
![Mama describes the most dangerous animals in the woods](/content/articles/ic_1622035322_400x300_true.jpg)
Grizzly oral traditions: What MoJo cartoonist John Potter overheard at a Greater Yellowstone backcountry campsite
Read MoreThe Next Endangered Species in Hip Mountain Towns: Local People
May 19, 2021
![It's a scene repeated throughout the Rockies](/content/articles/ic_1621400836_400x300_true.jpg)
As greedy landlords convert homes and apartments into pricey short-term rentals for tourists, many longtime residents are feeling exiled from their own communities. John Potter sizes it up
Read MoreThings That Can't Be Re-Created
May 12, 2021
![Remember the climber who hammered in bolts on petroglyphs?](/content/articles/ic_1620781579_400x300_true.jpg)
After a climber in Utah brazenly bolted a route across ancient indigenous petroglyphs, believing they were "graffiti," MoJo cartoonist John Potter says it spells only one thing
Read MoreAre There Enough Park Rangers To Go Around?
May 5, 2021
![Rangers on the front lines of crushing visitation](/content/articles/ic_1620222608_400x300_true.jpg)
With record crowds poised to descend on Yellowstone and Grand Teton, cartoonist John Potter laments how rangers every year have to do more with less
Read MoreIs 'Wildland Conservation' That Does Not Emphasize Wildlife Really Conservation?
April 28, 2021
![Well-known artists, writers fill volume edited by Katie Christiansen](/content/articles/ic_1620225425_400x300_true.jpg)
Delightful new 'Artist's Field Guide To Yellowstone' offers inspiring reasons to care about protecting wildlife in Lower 48's famous bioregion
Read MoreThe Adventures Of Modern Conquistadors
April 21, 2021
![Sharing intel for fame and glory](/content/articles/ic_1618989066_400x300_true.jpg)
MoJo cartoonist John Potter laments how social media and the egos of human 'explorers' are sullying the last best wild places
Read MoreWill Jackson Hole Grizzly 399—And Four Cubs— Emerge From The Den At 25?
April 14, 2021
![She never asked to be a star](/content/articles/ic_1618366001_400x300_true.jpg)
MoJo cartoonist John Potter reminds: As the whole world waits, let's not forget what it's like for this venerable bear mama, a quarter century old, whose own greatest threat is....humans behaving badly
Read MoreWhat Toll On Wildness When Humans Want It All?
April 7, 2021
![A peak encounter between local and visitor](/content/articles/ic_1617850216_400x300_true.jpg)
MoJo's The Week That Is: When it comes to recreational impacts, we have to look ourselves in the mirror—and that's probably why we deny we are displacing wildlife
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