Yellowstone's legendary "winter keeper" Steven Fuller takes readers on an intimate exploration of the world's first national park. Every few days he serves up a new dispatch here
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Why Some Western Towns Live Or Die
February 15, 2018
A prominent economist explains the value of public land for 21st-century America
Read MoreWild Animal Tales Told In Tracks, Spoor, Life And Death
February 4, 2018 // Yellowstone
For winterkeeper Steven Fuller, Yellowstone's drama is written in the snow
Read MoreYellowstone Winterkeeper Remembers His Famous Story In National Geographic
January 29, 2018 // Yellowstone
Forty years ago, Steven Fuller wrote a story for National Geographic on the park's cold extreme isolation. Now he takes a look back
Read MoreWho Is Willing To Defend American Wilderness?
January 24, 2018 // Public Lands, Wilderness
As attacks on wilderness and environmental laws rage, many citizens wonder why some prominent conservation groups seem to be missing in action?
Read MoreThe Language Of Snow As A Vocabulary Of Place
January 22, 2018 // Yellowstone
For Yellowstone winterkeeper Steven Fuller, special words describe the park's frozen world
Read MoreAn Interlude With Yellowstone's Haunting Mountain Foxes
January 18, 2018
In a realm known for its big animals, winterkeeper Steve Fuller delights in charismatic mesofauna
Read MoreThe Hayden: Yellowstone's Great Sensuous Valley
January 14, 2018 // Yellowstone
For winterkeeper Steven Fuller, this vast vale in the middle of America's first national park always delivers geographic center
Read MoreOut His Picture Window A Glimpse Into The Post-Holocene
January 10, 2018 // Yellowstone
Every day, Yellowstone winterkeeper Steven Fuller shares space with survivors from the Ice Age
Read MoreMontana's Three Amigos Are Stars In Trump's Radical Anti-Environmental Agenda
January 9, 2018 // Public Lands
As the 2018 Outdoor Retailer Show opens in Denver, columnist Tim Crawford warns against giving away federal Western lands
Read MoreThe Killing Fields Await Yellowstone Bison Once Again In Montana
December 15, 2017 // Yellowstone
More than 10,000 Yellowstone bison have been killed based on a faulty premise. Like the worry over Chronic Wasting Disease, this controversy has connections to Wyoming's feedgrounds
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 MoreIs Greater Yellowstone Really Ready To Confront Its Future?
November 22, 2017 // Public Lands, Ranching, The New West
From concerns about population growth and climate change to wildlife diseases and rising levels of recreation, FutureWest hosts a symposium focused on the future of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Read MoreA Wildlife Tour Guide Speaks Out Against Destruction Of Yellowstone Bison
November 19, 2017 // Bison
In This Guest Essay, Conservationist Phil Knight Criticizes Treatment of America's Official National Mammal In Montana
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