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One of America's Biggest Wildlife Conservation Issues You Need To Know About
May 6, 2020
Stretching between Yellowstone National Park and Bozeman, the Gallatins are the only mountains rimming Yellowstone without significant wilderness protection. Will the Forest Service show vision?
Read MoreChronic Wasting Disease: America's Homegrown Contagion That Lumbers On Four Hooves
April 12, 2020
Forget, for a moment, Covid-19 and bats. Epidemiologists say we need to take seriously this wildlife version of Mad Cow rapidly spreading across the country. First in a new investigative series
Read MoreCoronavirus On The Doorstep: The Pandemic Reaches America’s Isolated Flyover
April 2, 2020
In a real-life potboiler, Sarah DeOpsomer pens a personal journal about Covid-19's arrival in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and waiting for her own (positive) test results to come in
Read MoreYellowstone Always On His Mind
March 13, 2020
Until his last breath, former ranger, hiker and nature advocate Mike Yochim raced to finish a book aimed at protecting America's first national park
Read MoreWith Fate of Iconic Mountains Uncertain, Members of Gallatin Forest Partnership Make Their Case
February 17, 2020
Interest groups believe their plan offers a real chance to secure permanent protection for the Wild Gallatins
Read MoreWhen Green-up Arrives, Do You Suffer From 'Plant Blindness'?
February 12, 2020
For naturalist Susan Marsh, winter is a great season for reflecting on what's out of sight and mind—and how each of us can appreciate new worlds
Read MoreAre We Giving The Wild Gallatins The Visionary Protection They Really Deserve?
December 29, 2019
By the wildlife they hold, the Gallatin Mountains are wilder than most national parks in the Lower 48. So why are the Forest Service and enviro groups balking at more extensive protections?
Read MoreBeauty As Antidote For Living In Heavy Times
December 20, 2019
For painter Barbara Rusmore, the restorative power of nature is a catalyst for art and advocacy
Read MoreNational Flashpoint: The Gallatin Range Is Ground Zero For Americans Talking About Wilderness
September 30, 2019
History shows those pushing for mountain bikes in wilderness have no factual traction. Read this excerpt of Todd Burritt's book on Greater Yellowstone
Read MoreMetamorphosis: When Prominent Users Of Nature Become Advocates For Its Protection
September 19, 2019
A young environmental writer interviews two heroes, Conrad Anker and Craig Mathews, about their own evolution as defenders
Read MoreOn Sacred Autumn Sundays
September 10, 2019
Mike Person, a Montana-born lineman for the San Francisco 49ers, finds peace where trout dwell
Read MoreStopping A Yellowstone Hetch-Hetchy: When Private Interests Nearly Put Parts Of America's First National Park Under Water
July 28, 2019
In this excerpt from John Taliaferro's new book on George Bird Grinnell, local efforts to exploit Yellowstone remind us again that past is prelude
Read MoreGeorge Bird Grinnell: His Impact As "The Father of American Conservation" Written Across Today's West
July 22, 2019
John Taliaferro's "Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West" is epic, entertaining and important
Read MoreHow Lost Words Translate Into Lost Worlds
July 18, 2019
Place names matter, even when describing the ineffable and especially if monikers provide cover for cultural amnesia
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