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Out His Picture Window A Glimpse Into The Post-Holocene
January 10, 2018 // Yellowstone

Every day, Yellowstone winterkeeper Steven Fuller shares space with survivors from the Ice Age
Read MoreMontana's Three Amigos Are Stars In Trump's Radical Anti-Environmental Agenda
January 9, 2018 // Public Lands

As the 2018 Outdoor Retailer Show opens in Denver, columnist Tim Crawford warns against giving away federal Western lands
Read MoreThe Killing Fields Await Yellowstone Bison Once Again In Montana
December 15, 2017 // Yellowstone

More than 10,000 Yellowstone bison have been killed based on a faulty premise. Like the worry over Chronic Wasting Disease, this controversy has connections to Wyoming's feedgrounds
Read MoreThe Undeniable Value of Wolves, Bears, Lions And Coyotes In Battling Disease
December 11, 2017

Part 4 in Mountain Journal's series on Chronic Wasting Disease and the threat it poses to America's wildest ecosystem. By killing predators, are states that still cling to Little Red Riding Hood shooting themselves in the foot?
Read MoreIs Greater Yellowstone Really Ready To Confront Its Future?
November 22, 2017 // Public Lands, Ranching, The New West

From concerns about population growth and climate change to wildlife diseases and rising levels of recreation, FutureWest hosts a symposium focused on the future of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Read MoreA Wildlife Tour Guide Speaks Out Against Destruction Of Yellowstone Bison
November 19, 2017

In This Guest Essay, Conservationist Phil Knight Criticizes Treatment of America's Official National Mammal In Montana
Read MoreChronic Wasting Disease Strikes Montana And Continues Its March On Yellowstone
November 16, 2017 // Public Lands, Wildlife, Yellowstone

Part 3 in Mountain Journal's ongoing series on Chronic Wasting Disease. With ultra-deadly CWD now in Montana wildlife for first time, critics say public officials are demonstrating irresponsibility by having no coordinated plan for confronting the disease
Read MoreLessons From A Hunter Twice Attacked By A Grizzly Bear
October 26, 2017 // Grizzly Bears, Hunting

Todd Orr's misadventure with a sow grizzly offers insight for anyone—hunter or hiker—heading into bear country. Biggest take home: bear spray works
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
Read MoreGreater Yellowstone's Coming Plague
October 8, 2017 // Public Lands, Science, Wildlife

Mountain Journal's special multi-part series on Chronic Wasting Disease and the potential dangers it poses to Greater Yellowstone's unparalleled wildlife and the specter of risk to human health. Part 1: Greater Yellowstone's Coming Plague
Read MoreRoadkill: An Emergency Responder, Absent A Gun, Is Handed A Grim Task
September 18, 2017 // Wildlife

When an elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is struck by a car, it forces Steve Primm to reflect on the perilous intersections between migratory wildlife, highways and people.
Read MoreLesson From The Great Eclipse: When We Stand In Awe Of Nature, We Become Better Citizens
August 20, 2017 // Science, The New West

One profound lesson from the great eclipse of 2017: Science says that people who spend more time reverentially in the great outdoors are happier, kinder and more generous
Steve Primm Wades Into The Sagebrush Sea
August 14, 2017 // Endangered Species, Public Lands, Ranching

Most people dwelling in Greater Yellowstone might live in towns and small cities but rural people and their lands hold the key to ecological resilience. With his regular column, Sagebrush & Cranesong, Steve Primm will examine the issues relating to co-existence between country people and nature on the western front of the Greater Yellowstone region.
Read MoreThe Winterkeeper's Great Chasm—As You've Never Known It Before
February 11, 2008 // Yellowstone

Besides being jaw dropping, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone has geysers, hidden spectacles and a mountain of volcanic ash.
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