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Things That Can't Be Re-Created
May 12, 2021
![Remember the climber who hammered in bolts on petroglyphs?](/content/articles/ic_1620781579_400x300_true.jpg)
After a climber in Utah brazenly bolted a route across ancient indigenous petroglyphs, believing they were "graffiti," MoJo cartoonist John Potter says it spells only one thing
Read MoreAre There Enough Park Rangers To Go Around?
May 5, 2021
![Rangers on the front lines of crushing visitation](/content/articles/ic_1620222608_400x300_true.jpg)
With record crowds poised to descend on Yellowstone and Grand Teton, cartoonist John Potter laments how rangers every year have to do more with less
Read MoreIs 'Wildland Conservation' That Does Not Emphasize Wildlife Really Conservation?
April 28, 2021
![Well-known artists, writers fill volume edited by Katie Christiansen](/content/articles/ic_1620225425_400x300_true.jpg)
Delightful new 'Artist's Field Guide To Yellowstone' offers inspiring reasons to care about protecting wildlife in Lower 48's famous bioregion
Read MoreThe Adventures Of Modern Conquistadors
April 21, 2021
![Sharing intel for fame and glory](/content/articles/ic_1618989066_400x300_true.jpg)
MoJo cartoonist John Potter laments how social media and the egos of human 'explorers' are sullying the last best wild places
Read MoreWill Jackson Hole Grizzly 399—And Four Cubs— Emerge From The Den At 25?
April 14, 2021
![She never asked to be a star](/content/articles/ic_1618366001_400x300_true.jpg)
MoJo cartoonist John Potter reminds: As the whole world waits, let's not forget what it's like for this venerable bear mama, a quarter century old, whose own greatest threat is....humans behaving badly
Read MoreWhat Toll On Wildness When Humans Want It All?
April 7, 2021
![A peak encounter between local and visitor](/content/articles/ic_1617850216_400x300_true.jpg)
MoJo's The Week That Is: When it comes to recreational impacts, we have to look ourselves in the mirror—and that's probably why we deny we are displacing wildlife
Read MoreNature's Liquidation—When Treated Only As Tradable Commodity
April 7, 2021
![What happens when wildness is valued only for money?](/content/articles/ic_1617803822_400x300_true.jpg)
Buy Now! Everything for sale! Get it now before it's gone. MoJo cartoonist John Potter explores knowing price of everything but value of nothing
Read MoreWhat Happened After Wolf 1155 Left Yellowstone
March 31, 2021
![Montana values in 2021](/content/articles/ic_1617206598_400x300_true.jpg)
Cartoonist John Potter ponders the message Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte is sending to the rest of the country about his state
Read MoreLeave No Trace—Of What?
March 24, 2021
![Explore loudly and leave a big track?](/content/articles/ic_1616524854_400x300_true.jpg)
In his latest comic, MoJo cartoonist John Potter tackles the human footprint and ponders the difference between re-creation and recreation
Read MoreThe So-Called 'Underutilized Backcountry'
March 18, 2021
![Turning backcountry into frontcountry](/content/articles/ic_1616078120_400x300_true.jpg)
This week cartoonist John Potter spoofs claims by federal agencies and outdoor recreationists that wildlands are practically worthless unless filled with more human funhogs
Read MoreGrandstanding With Hidden Agendas?
March 9, 2021
![Sen. Daines and. Deb Haaland](/content/articles/ic_1615314954_400x300_true.jpg)
This week cartoonist John Potter lampoons US Sen. Steve Daines for seeking to block Deb Haaland from becoming first Native American interior secretary
Read MoreMeet The Witless New West, Same As The Old West
March 2, 2021
![It's not easy being a native species in Montana](/content/articles/ic_1614743515_400x300_true.jpg)
This week cartoonist John Potter lampoons the Montana legislature's backward bills taking aim at grizzlies, wolves and bison
Read MoreWildlife Don't Need This Kind Of Human Charity
February 24, 2021
![Creating a lethal addiction](/content/articles/ic_1614178103_400x300_true.jpg)
Whether out of perceived goodwill or ignorance, feeding wildlife can have deadly consequences
Read MoreWaiting For Elk To Disappear From 'The Last Hundred Acres'
February 23, 2021
![The imperiled southwest corner of Montana's Gallatin Valley](/content/articles/ic_1614131568_400x300_true.jpg)
Greater Yellowstone resident Rob Sisson pens an essay about his sorrow in watching a wapiti migration route vanish on the outskirts of Bozeman, Montana
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