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Is Yellowstone Tourism Promotion Helping Or Hurting The Protection Of Wild Places and Wildlife?
March 29, 2022
![Does wild country need a publicist?](/content/articles/ic_1648589637_400x300_true.jpg)
In Mountain Journal's ongoing series on the topic of limits and our co-existence with Nature, we ponder how advertising, social media and travel writing are negatively impacting the places they tout
Read MoreWherever You Find Fun Outside, Crazy Creek Has Your Back Covered
March 23, 2022
![The camp chair of choice for 35 years](/content/articles/ic_1648018587_400x300_true.jpg)
Red Lodge, Montana-based maker of portable chairs, a favorite of active outdoorspeople in the Rockies, is also devoted to protecting the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Read MoreHow Much Is Enough? (To Save Or Destroy A World-Class Ecosystem?)
March 13, 2022
![How much is enough to save or destroy an ecosystem](/content/articles/ic_1647274681_400x300_true.jpg)
New ongoing MoJo series comes at time of record visitation to Yellowstone and Jackson Hole, crowded rivers, exploding development pressure, surging outdoor recreation and climate change
Read MoreIn Lakota, Cante t’insya Manipelo Means 'They Walk Courageously'
March 4, 2022
![Reflections on home, leaving home and 'going home'](/content/articles/ic_1646495677_400x300_true.jpg)
From the prairie, Lois Red Elk (Hunkpapa/Isante/Yankton) shares a poem—and opens her heart—to the people of Ukraine
Read MoreFeeling A Deeper Grief When Winter Doesn't Come
February 5, 2022
![In winter, without snow and cold, rural Western roads yield even less relief](/content/articles/ic_1644108402_400x300_true.jpg)
In her new poem "Mile Marker 605," Lois Red Elk speaks to the bleakness of this season in Indian Country as exemplified in the vision of roadkill
Read MoreA Winterkeeper's Reflections On Yellowstone's State Of Ambient Beings
January 29, 2022
![For half a century winter has been Steve Fuller's muse](/content/articles/ic_1643498839_400x300_true.jpg)
In a stirring presentation of fantastical imagery, Steve Fuller shows why—and how—Yellowstone becomes wonderland when temperatures fall, the snow flies and water turns to ice
Read MoreThe Strength Of Great Trees Is Grounded In Deep Roots
January 9, 2022
![An old cottonwood reflected in the water](/content/articles/ic_1641692118_400x300_true.jpg)
Poet Lois Red Elk reminds that the obvious things we savor about place, wildlife and community have deeper underpinnings in the earth
Read MoreWhat Is Wilderness Without Its Wolves?
January 9, 2022
![Does anything more signify wilderness than a wolf howl?](/content/articles/ic_1641759429_400x300_true.jpg)
The ecological importance of wolves is irrefutable. In this op-ed, MoJo columnist Franz Camenzind asks why are wolves facing eradication campaigns in federal Wilderness where the health of native species takes priority?
Read MoreHopeful Words Won't Save Us Without Action
January 1, 2022
![How can we make 2022 a year to save what matters to us?](/content/articles/ic_1641100145_400x300_true.jpg)
As Susan Marsh looks into 2022 and ponders the many challenges to Greater Yellowstone, she says Nature needs allies defending her, not hollow resolutions
Read MoreThe Climber-Conservationist Who Literally Put Greater Yellowstone On The Map
December 28, 2021
![Rick Reese atop Mount Moran](/content/articles/ic_1640745246_400x300_true.jpg)
As advocates for the Yellowstone region go, Rick Reese ranks right up there with the most impactful of all time. His legacy is written in the abundant wildlife and healthy landscapes we value today
Read More'Gunfight' Is One Of The Most Important Books You May Ever Read About Guns In America
December 22, 2021
![What Ryan Busse loves to do when he's not writing](/content/articles/ic_1640204737_400x300_true.jpg)
Ryan Busse, a Montana hunter, was once a gun industry executive who helped create the uncivil war over firearms in America. Now he's trying to change the discourse before it's too late
Read MoreHe Went Outside To Go Inward
December 20, 2021
![Professor Creek and Mary Jane Canyon](/content/articles/ic_1640032146_400x300_true.jpg)
In 'Mary Jane Wild,' Brooke Williams seeks wildness in the West to help him make sense of a world coming apart at the seams. It's a fine read for these times
Read MoreAt Winter Solstice: Deep Dreaming of Pte and Tatanka
December 16, 2021
![Deep dreaming of bison has happened for millennia on different continents](/content/articles/ic_1639675781_400x300_true.jpg)
As Lois Red Elk writes in a new poem, we are an expression of all our ancestors. We can honor them by remembering them—and reaching out in our dreams
Read More'A Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map' Is A Great Read
December 14, 2021
![From exploring wildlands to saving them, Ridgeway continues his own evolution](/content/articles/ic_1639456727_400x300_true.jpg)
Rick Ridgeway has been called 'the real Indiana Jones' for his gravity-defying daring, breathtaking photos and yen to be outdoors. Now his priority is saving what's left of our wild home planet
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