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Touching 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
Read MoreThe Lords Of Yesterday Are Back And They Want America's Public Land
September 28, 2017 // Opinion, Public Lands
![Views from Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument -- Pilot Rock, Courtesy of BLM photographer Bob Wick](/content/articles/ic_1506626760_400x300_true.jpg)
Barry Reiswig—a backcountry horseman, hunter, angler and former civil servant —pushes back against what he calls "the radical agenda" of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke
Read MoreTo Be A Man, Real Warriors Don't Have To Kill Lions
September 26, 2017 // Co-existence, Culture
![Daniel Ole Sambu](/content/articles/ic_1506439679_400x300_true.jpg)
America's wildest ecosystem can learn some valuable lessons about human-predator conflicts from Daniel Ole Sambu and his campaign to protect African lions
Read MoreAutumn Interlude: Painting Grizzly Bear Mother 399
September 25, 2017 // Grizzly Bears
![399 and Cubs Crossing Pacific Creek, watercolor 184 by Sue Cedarholm](/content/articles/ic_1506376412_400x300_true.jpg)
Grizzly 399 is the most famous modern bear in the world. Sue Cedarholm paints the matriarch as she guides her cubs through Jackson Hole on a quest to sate the hunger of hyperphagia.
Read MoreGrizzlies Deserve More Than Bullets
September 23, 2017 // Grizzly Bears, Opinion
![The Great Bear, photograph by Phil Knight](/content/articles/ic_1506181865_400x300_true.jpg)
Phil Knight saw his first Yellowstone grizzly 35 years ago. After watching bear numbers climb, he says recovery should not be celebrated by subjecting them to sport hunting.
Read MoreWithin An Old Burn, Views Of White Turned To Black And Fading Fireweed
September 21, 2017 // Big Art of Nature
![Sue Cedarholm](/content/articles/ic_1505922473_400x300_true.jpg)
In Her Latest Installment Of Watercolor Diary, Sue Cedarholm Literally Hikes Into Wilderness From Town With Her Daughters And Finds A Fresh Scene
Read MoreA Good Life Writing After Years In The Forest Service
September 20, 2017 // Big Art of Nature, Conservation, Culture
![Susan Marsh](/content/articles/ic_1505843821_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Journal columnist Susan Marsh spent three decades working for the US Forest Service, working on recreation and wilderness protection in both the Gallatin National Forest of Montana and Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest. Today she's an award-wining writer.
Read MoreLois Red Elk Writes About Ponies—And Remembers Her Horseman Father
September 20, 2017 // Big Art of Nature, Culture
![Horses wander near the heart of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem](/content/articles/ic_1505918102_400x300_true.jpg)
Of My Father and Horses: Lois Red Elk, Mountain Journal's poet in residence, debuts a brand new poem and shares an older one from her acclaimed volume "Why I Return to Makoce"
Read MoreBrian Jarvi’s “African Menagerie” Shows How Fine Art Can Move The Masses
September 19, 2017 // Big Art of Nature, Culture
![Brian Jarvi in the studio completing his epic masterwork "African Menagerie: An Inquisition"](/content/articles/ic_1505831473_400x300_true.jpg)
Unprecedented Wildlife Painting Featuring 209 Species Was Partially Inspired By Thinking About Greater Yellowstone.
Read MoreRoadkill: An Emergency Responder, Absent A Gun, Is Handed A Grim Task
September 18, 2017 // Wildlife
![Elk, photo courtesy National Park Service/Ed Austin/Herb Jones](/content/articles/ic_1505691409_400x300_true.jpg)
When an elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is struck by a car, it forces Steve Primm to reflect on the perilous intersections between migratory wildlife, highways and people.
Read MoreWhat's In A Yellowstone Place Name? A Man Of Infamy, It Turns Out
September 18, 2017 // Culture, Yellowstone
![Army Col. John Gibbon](/content/articles/ic_1505743671_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Journal columnist Jesse Logan says Army Col. John Gibbon, who has a river and meadow named after him in Yellowstone National Park, should have those honors revoked for what he did to the Nez Perce
Read MoreSelling Off The Historic Playground To Pay For Growth
September 14, 2017 // Community, Community Change
![The historic lawn of the Emerson Cultural Center in Bozeman](/content/articles/ic_1505356185_400x300_true.jpg)
Mountain Journal columnist and downtown Bozeman businessman Tim Crawford says growth doesn't pay for itself. And there's no better example than Bozeman public school officials potentially selling off a beloved historic playground to meet budget shortfalls.
Read MoreIn The Modern World, Why Do We Hunt And Fish?
September 13, 2017 // Hunting
![Marshall Cutchin and son](/content/articles/ic_1505368650_400x300_true.jpg)
Marshall Cutchin, a lifelong sportsman and founder of the largest online angling magazine in the world, ponders the big philosophical questions relating to hunting and fishing.
Read MoreHow the Rest Of America Looks To Us From The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
September 13, 2017 // The New West
![The view of the world from Greater Yellowstone by Rick Peterson](/content/articles/ic_1505218087_400x300_true.jpg)
New Yorker Magazine Cartoonist Saul Steinberg Once Offered Manhattan's View Of The American West As A "Flyover". Now Mountain Journal, Thanks To The Work Of Illustrator Rick Peterson, Gets Even.
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