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Is The Silencer Gun Controversy Leaving Us More Tone Deaf?
October 26, 2017 // Hunting, Public Lands

Franz Camenzind Teases Apart One Disquieting Piece Of A Very Bad Anti-Conservation Bill In Congress
Read MoreCitizen Crawford Asks: Is Bozeman Becoming A Banana Republic For A New Breed Of Investor-Saviors?
October 26, 2017

Downtown Bozeman, Montana Businessman And MoJo Columnist Tim Crawford Says The City Made A Mockery Of Citizen Democracy With Its Black-Olive Decision
Read MoreTory Taylor's Search For The Elusive Sheepeaters
October 25, 2017 // Book Review, The New West

In His New Book, The Retired Outfitter/Guide From Dubois, Wyoming Picks Up The Trail Of Greater Yellowstone's Oldest And Most Mysterious Mountain Inhabitants
Read MoreTwo Meditations On Mni Sose, Water, Mother Earth and Standing Rock
October 24, 2017 // Water

Mountain Journal's Poet In Residence Lois Red Elk Reed Unveils A New Work Focussed On Mni Sose, The Missouri River
Read MoreA Tribute To The Ancient Ones High On The Mountain
October 23, 2017 // Endangered Species, Public Lands

What does a forest tell us about our past and future? Scientist Jesse Logan pays tribute to the vanishing whitebark pine and shares what it foreshadows for America's wildest ecosystem in the Lower 48
Read MoreWhither The Mighty Wolverine?
October 22, 2017 // Endangered Species, Public Lands, Wildlife

Few in number and scattered sparsely across huge geographic areas, wolverines are still hanging on in Greater Yellowstone. But for how long? Rebecca Watters says they need a human strategy to insure their persistence.
Read MoreHolding The Line On Wild: Is The U.S. Forest Service Up To The Challenge?
October 19, 2017 // Forest Service, Outdoor Recreation, Wilderness

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 // MoJo Profile

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
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