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Forced Out Of Yellowstone
June 7, 2018 // Yellowstone
Despite Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk’s desire to end his 42-year-career in America’s first national park, Ryan Zinke’s Interior Department demands he leave
Read MoreGreater Yellowstone Photo Of The Day: Ursus arctos and Canis lupus
June 5, 2018
What does making space for bears and wolves on the landscape say about us?
Read MoreGreater Yellowstone Photo Of The Day: Griz On Bison
May 3, 2018
Yellowstone senior biologist Doug Smith went flying for wolves and found this scene
Read MoreA Winterkeeper Finds His Yellowstone Doppelgänger In Africa
April 25, 2018 // Wildlife, Yellowstone
Has Steven Fuller's life in the American bush left him bosebevokked?
Read MoreSlower Motion: The Joy Of Dilly-Dally In An Age Of Speed
April 23, 2018
Susan Marsh asks: how much of nature registers if we are zooming through it?
Read MoreA Patriot Finds Peace In The West
April 3, 2018
MoJo columnist Todd Johnson, a combat veteran-turned-Park-Service ranger, salutes the stewards of public lands
Read MoreWhy Some Western Towns Live Or Die
February 15, 2018
A prominent economist explains the value of public land for 21st-century America
Read MoreBeholding The Golden Green Goose That Hatched One Of The Richest Counties in America
January 22, 2018 // Growth—Good, Bad & Ugly, Guest Commentary
Teton County, Wyo. Commissioner Mark Newcomb examines the cost—and dividends— of protecting a wild American ecosystem
Read MoreBeholding The Golden Green Goose That Hatched One Of The Richest Counties in America
January 2, 2018
Teton County, Wyo. Commissioner Mark Newcomb examines the cost—and dividends— of protecting a wild American ecosystem
Read MoreThe Undeniable Value of Wolves, Bears, Lions And Coyotes In Battling Disease
December 11, 2017
Part 4 in Mountain Journal's series on Chronic Wasting Disease and the threat it poses to America's wildest ecosystem. By killing predators, are states that still cling to Little Red Riding Hood shooting themselves in the foot?
Read MoreChronic Wasting Disease Strikes Montana And Continues Its March On Yellowstone
November 16, 2017 // Public Lands, Wildlife, Yellowstone
Part 3 in Mountain Journal's ongoing series on Chronic Wasting Disease. With ultra-deadly CWD now in Montana wildlife for first time, critics say public officials are demonstrating irresponsibility by having no coordinated plan for confronting the disease
Read MoreA Sportsman's Moment of Truth: The Head of Trout Unlimited Weighs In
November 5, 2017
TU's President and CEO Chris Wood talks Zinke, Pruitt, Climate Change, Pebble Mine and lake trout in Yellowstone
Read MoreTo Live Or Die In Bear Country: Counting The Seconds In Your Grizzly Moment Of Truth
October 29, 2017 // Grizzly Bears, Hunting
Mountain Journal Takes A Deep Dive Into Grizzly Attacks, Bear Spray, And What You Need To Know.
Read MoreWhither The Mighty Wolverine?
October 22, 2017 // Endangered Species, Public Lands, Wildlife
Few in number and scattered sparsely across huge geographic areas, wolverines are still hanging on in Greater Yellowstone. But for how long? Rebecca Watters says they need a human strategy to insure their persistence.
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