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Holding The Line On Wild: Is The U.S. Forest Service Up To The Challenge?
October 19, 2017 // Forest Service, Outdoor Recreation, Wilderness
![Enchantment Basin from Prusik Pass in Alpine Lakes Wilderness by Jeffrey Pang](/content/articles/ic_1508467113_400x300_true.jpg)
Susan Marsh spent her career protecting wilderness and trying to manage human pressures on America's public lands. Now this veteran of the Forest Service ponders whether her storied agency has the courage to confront the increasing impacts of outdoor recreation.
Read MoreVisual Delights Spring From Wildfires Past In A Forest Reborn
October 17, 2017 // Big Art of Nature
![From a line of burned trees a forest reborn](/content/articles/ic_1508298366_400x300_true.jpg)
As has often happened in her quest to paint one new watercolor every day, artist Sue Cedarholm goes looking for one thing and finds another.
Read MoreAmerica's National Elk Refuge: A ‘Miasmic Zone Of Life-Threatening Diseases'
October 17, 2017 // Public Lands, Science, Wildlife
![Will the National Elk Refuge become ground zero for catastrophic disease? Photo courtesy National Elk Refuge](/content/articles/ic_1508194113_400x300_true.jpg)
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is known internationally for its wildlife. With the arrival of Chronic Wasting Disease looming, the epicenter of a deadly outbreak would be western Wyoming and the home to America's "national elk herd". Part 2 in Mountain Journal's series looking at the coming wildlife plague.
Read MoreA Tragedy In The Mountains Highlights Pain Facing The Young
October 16, 2017 // Community, Community Change
![The Madison Mountains, photo courtesy Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center, B. Vandenbos](/content/articles/ic_1508172211_400x300_true.jpg)
In mountain towns like Bozeman and Jackson Hole, extreme athletes are modern heroes. When something bad happens, it should cause all of us to hold our kids closer
Brown Trout Belly Rub
October 13, 2017 // Liam Diekmann, Outdoor Recreation
![Brown trout, a fine art photograph by Pat Clayton (http://fisheyeguyphotography.com)](/content/articles/ic_1507830546_400x300_true.jpg)
Liam Diekmann, Mountain Journal's young man of the water, goes fishing with a trio of well-known elders and when the flies don't work he makes contact with a monster brown using his bare hands.
Read MoreA Cow Elk Crosses The Snake
October 10, 2017
![Elk Crossing The Snake River by Sue Cedarholm](/content/articles/ic_1507697262_400x300_true.jpg)
For painter Sue Cedarholm, autumn is the golden time in Jackson Hole. Bugling bull elk heighten the brassy feel of the season.
Read MoreWill "Stay Wild" Help Build An Army Of Committed Landscape Protectors?
October 10, 2017
![Still images taken from Jackson Hole Travel & Tourism Board's YouTube video "Jackson Hole Winter 2017-18 : Stay Wild".](/content/articles/ic_1507772714_400x300_true.jpg)
As public lands cope with an onset of industrial-strength outdoor recreation, promotors of a new ad campaign in Jackson Hole claim their ultimate intent is to grow conservation
Read MoreGeorge Carlson's Perpetual State Of Wonder
October 9, 2017 // Big Art of Nature, MoJo Profile
!["Sentinel Bluffs" by George Carlson](/content/articles/ic_1507532406_400x300_true.jpg)
George Carlson is considered one of the best contemporary nature painters in the world. Mountain Journal visited the American master at his studio and took a deep dive into his reverence for wild landscapes
Read MoreGreater Yellowstone's Coming Plague
October 8, 2017 // Chronic Wasting Disease, Public Lands, Science, Wildlife
![Thomas Mangelsen's photograph "Winter Herd" portraying thousands of elk on the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming](/content/articles/ic_1507513504_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Journal's special multi-part series on Chronic Wasting Disease and the potential dangers it poses to Greater Yellowstone's unparalleled wildlife and the specter of risk to human health. Part 1: Greater Yellowstone's Coming Plague
Read MoreIt's Election Season And The Future Of Bozeman Is At Stake
October 4, 2017 // Bozeman, Growth—Good, Bad & Ugly
![Bozeman's parade of growth](/content/articles/ic_1507135479_400x300_true.jpg)
Bozeman is the fastest-growing city in Montana and Tim Crawford questions whether its elected officials are capable of dealing with the hard issues of growth
Read MoreAn Amorous Bull Moose, Rejected During The Rut
October 4, 2017 // Big Art of Nature
![Sue Cedarholm's latest piece for Watercolor Diary](/content/articles/ic_1507125532_400x300_true.jpg)
In her latest edition of Watercolor Diary, Sue Cedarholm portrays a Jackson Hole bull moose in the middle of the rut.
Read MoreCharting The Rise Of A Famous Grizzly Bear Mother In Jackson Hole
October 3, 2017 // Grizzly Bears, The New West
!["First Light-Grizzly", Thomas Mangelsen's photograph of Grizzly 399 crossing the Snake River, is awe-inspiring. But events in a bear's life can turn on perilous moments.](/content/articles/ic_1507066589_400x300_true.jpg)
People Forget That Before Grizzly 399 Became The World's Most Famous Bear, There Was Jackson Hole Grizzly Mama 474
Read MoreCaretaking America's Wild Homefront
October 3, 2017 // Forest Service, Public Lands
![The Gros Ventre Range, photo courtesy US Forest Service](/content/articles/ic_1507577328_400x300_true.jpg)
For Susan Marsh, who donned a Forest Service uniform, mountains were her medicine and protecting wilderness a way of giving back to her country
Read MoreTouching Meaning In A Small-Town Funeral Procession
October 1, 2017 // Community, Community Change
![Photo by Timothy Tate](/content/articles/ic_1506878350_400x300_true.jpg)
Bozeman, Montana Psychotherapist Timothy Tate Riffs On The Struggles Of Finding Purpose While Living Beneath The Big Western Sky
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