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Public Health Official: Chronic Wasting Disease Seems Bound To Infect People
March 6, 2019 // Hunting, Jackson Hole, Wildlife
"CWD is gonna be a helluva wildlife problem even if disease doesn't reach livestock and humans," Osterholm says. He criticizes Wyoming for continuing to operate controversial elk feedgrounds
Read MoreCan Greater Yellowstone’s Wildlife Survive Industrial Strength Recreation?
March 6, 2019 // Outdoor Recreation, The New West, Wildlife
A contrast between two different organizations—one devoted to tackling real issues shaping our region, the other running away from hard discussions about growing impacts of industrial-strength recreation
Read MoreThe War Veteran Who Had A Dream—In Which He Was Visited By A Midget
February 21, 2019
By courting the images that come to us during sleep and drawing upon their messages, our dreams within can help us achieve more meaningful, peaceful outer lives
Read MoreClimate Change: Making Sense of Hansjörg Wyss's $1 Billion Stake In Our Common Future
January 16, 2019
Giving Back To Greater Yellowstone Can Also Mean Not Taking The Things That Sustain It
Read MoreFinding Personal Transformation In Nature's Higher Ground
December 29, 2018
At the Anderson Ranch, "learning/adventure vacations" bring people together through fun, wildlife and stories shared around a campfire
Read MoreRunning Through A Human-Framed Masterpiece
December 3, 2018
A student tries to make sense of Ted Turner's attempt to restore wildness and ponders the role of bison and beaver as keystone species
Read MoreTeddy Loved NoDak: Land Of Prairie Light, Space And Multitudes Of Migrating Avians
December 3, 2018
Before the Bakken made fortunes and a mess of the landscape, Jackson Hole naturalist Susan Marsh discovered a different kind of majesty
Read MoreDems Winning House Means Major Pushback To Trump's Anti-Environment, Anti-Science Agenda
November 7, 2018
Still, the Democratic National Committee remains clueless in dealing with rural West and heartland
Read MoreWestern Epiphanies: Lessons From The Largest Mobile Classroom In America
October 15, 2018 // Whitman College Semester In The West
Mountain Journal collaborates with students from Whitman College's "Semester in the West" who share their thoughts about issues shaping an iconic region
Read MoreEncountering The Modern Garden Of Eden In Two Variations
October 15, 2018 // Ranching, Whitman College Semester In The West, Yellowstone
Noah Dunn contrasts public Yellowstone with a private ranch next door
Read MoreWhen Bison Bellow Like African Lions
September 19, 2018
In Jackson Hole, a half-minute vignette of rutting bulls with the Tetons rising behind
Read MoreLearning, To Care Deeply For Mother Nature
August 14, 2018 // Environmental Education
In Montana's Centennial Valley, the Taft-Nicholson Center opens minds for life by immersing students in the wild unknown
Read MoreTR IV: Meet A Real Theodore Roosevelt Conservationist
August 12, 2018 // Leadership, Ryan Zinke, Wildlife
Great grandson of 'the old lion' calls moderate Republicans 'an endangered species'
Read MoreWhen Nature And The Solace Of Open Spaces Aren't Enough
July 23, 2018
In Bozeman, some philanthropists are helping others improve their mental health by buying them sessions of therapy
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