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Searching To Find The Soul Of Community In The Welter Of A Boom
September 12, 2017 // Community, Community Change, Growth—Good, Bad & Ugly
![Bozeman from the Bridger Mountains](/content/articles/ic_1505237193_400x300_true.jpg)
To save the best of what remains in Montana's Gallatin Valley, Lori Ryker says leaders and citizens must start thinking holistically—Now.
Read MoreSpying The Grand Teton From Delta Lake
September 9, 2017 // Big Art of Nature
![Sue Cedarholm's watercolor portrayal of the Grand from Delta Lake](/content/articles/ic_1504974787_400x300_true.jpg)
In her question to create a new painting every day for a year, Sue Cedarholm on Day 164, ascends to the shore of Delta Lake below the Grand Teton.
Read MoreBonded By Wild Land And Water: A Son Remembers His Dad
September 8, 2017 // Public Lands
![O'Dell Creek in the Madison Valley of Montana](/content/articles/ic_1504885069_400x300_true.jpg)
Writer Liam Diekmann in his debut column for Mountain Journal reflects on some of the greatest gifts his Father, the late conservationist Alex Diekmann, gave him.,
Read MoreSpooked By The Ghost Forests Of Greater Yellowstone
September 6, 2017
![Dead whitebark pine trees in Greater Yellowstone. Photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service](/content/articles/ic_1504803682_400x300_true.jpg)
Decades ago, Forest Service entomologist Jesse Logan feared climate change would devastate whitebark pine, an important food source for Greater Yellowstone grizzlies. Unfortunately, his prediction has proved true.
Read MoreWilderness: America's Second-Best Idea Is Under Attack—Unfortunately By Some Recreationists
September 6, 2017 // Wilderness
![Detail of Monte Dolack's painting A Peaceable Kingdom of Wilderness](/content/articles/ic_1504713041_400x300_true.jpg)
In this second part of an ongoing series on wilderness in America, MoJo columnist Franz Camenzind shines a light on efforts in Congress to roll back federal protection for wilderness. One of the main surprising instigators, he says, are mountain bikers masquerading as conservationists.
Read MoreThe Voice Of Lois Red Elk-Reed Hails From The Real Old Old West
September 5, 2017 // Culture
![Lois Red Elk-Reed and husband, Dennis, at Standing Rock in autumn 2016](/content/articles/ic_1504588345_400x300_true.jpg)
From working on multiple fronts to preserve her culture to advising Hollywood on its portrayals of native people, Lois Red Elk-Reed, of Fort Peck, Montana, has gained acclaim as an "organic poet".
Read MoreFor A Generation, "The Blue Door" Was A Safe Space On Bozeman's Main Street
September 5, 2017
![The author contemplates the meaning of red, white and blue from behind the door of his clinical therapy practice in downtown Bozeman, Montana](/content/articles/ic_1504724628_400x300_true.jpg)
Psychotherapist Timothy J. Tate says the biggest downside of his community becoming the "it" place is the loss of handshake agreements.
Read MoreFake News And Media Bias? It's Actually Me-Bias And Most Of Us Are Guilty
September 4, 2017 // Culture
![Illustration by Diane Kaup Benefiel/Wilson, Wyoming](/content/articles/ic_1506194837_400x300_true.jpg)
In his new column, Trigger Warning, now debuting at Mountain Journal, social commentator David J Swift suggests those who embrace alternative facts can't handle the truth
Read MoreAmerica Desperately Needs More Bill Ruckelshauses
August 31, 2017 // EPA
![William Ruckelshaus being sworn in as the first chief administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.](/content/articles/ic_1504206920_400x300_true.jpg)
Sara Flitner remembers the EPA's first chief administrator and how his approach to problem solving is badly-need today
Read MoreWhat Motivates Some Millennials To Try To Do Good In The World?
August 31, 2017
![Liam Diekmann conducting "research" for his column](/content/articles/ic_1504214620_400x300_true.jpg)
The 21st-century will be shaped by the Millennial generation, which is inheriting both opportunities and challenges from their predecessors. In his regular column, "My Father's Son" for Mountain Journal and MidCurrent, Liam Diekmann of Bozeman, Montana, lends some insight into Millennial values.
Read MoreA Late Summer Hike In The Tetons Leads To "Rock of Ages"
August 29, 2017 // Big Art of Nature
![A view of Rock of Ages high in the Tetons by Sue Cedarholm](/content/articles/ic_1504021461_400x300_true.jpg)
In Watercolor Diary, Sue
Cedarholm is painting a new place every day. In day 155, she ventures into the
Tetons’ Hanging Canyon to spy Rock of Ages
A Montana Political Giant Says Citizens Must Hold Elected Officials To Account
August 28, 2017 // Civil Society, Politics, The New West
![Former Ambassador to China and U.S. Sen. Max Baucus](/content/articles/ic_1504813291_400x300_true.jpg)
Max Baucus, the former Ambassador to China and Longtime U.S. Senator From Montana, Says Citizens Will Get The Democracy They Deserve—If They Demand It
Read MoreWilderness, America's Second-Best Conservation Idea, Is Under Attack
August 28, 2017 // Wilderness
![Macon & Washakie Lakes, Wind River Range, Popo Agie Wilderness on the Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming. Photo by Jim Peaco, courtesy National Park Service](/content/articles/ic_1504215695_400x300_true.jpg)
In the first part of an ongoing MoJo series, "Modern Wilderness," explored through a variety of perspectives and voices, columnist Franz Camenzind examines what official federal "wilderness" is, the origins of The Wilderness Act and the uncommon importance wilderness in the modern world.
Read MoreEven In Paradise, Everyone Needs To Heal Something, Especially The Seemingly Invincible
August 23, 2017 // Community, Community Change
![Mountain towns cast their own shadows. Photo by Todd Wilkinson](/content/articles/ic_1504028184_400x300_true.jpg)
Confronting the myth of perfection, columnist Timothy Tate, a practicing psychotherapist in Bozeman, writes about "distress" accompanying radical changes in mountain communities
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