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#MeToo In A Culture Of Good Old Boys
March 7, 2018
![Photo courtesy Kristen Honig / NPS](/content/articles/ic_1520444959_400x300_true.jpg)
Susan Marsh says Forest Service created ripe conditions for backlash
Read MoreMy Golden Weeping Willow—Finding Grounding In The Spectacular Ordinary
February 1, 2018 // Co-existence
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Naturalist Susan Marsh opens her old journal and muses on boredom, beauty, impermanence and the lament of a favorite tree cut down
Read MoreOf Dads And Mountain Daughters
January 30, 2018 // Community, Community Change, Culture
![Daughter Abbey on a trip home](/content/articles/ic_1517349736_400x300_true.jpg)
A foundational relationship in a woman’s life, its impacts lasting a lifetime
Read MoreThe Essential Role Of Eco-Capitalism In Saving The Best That Remains
January 29, 2018 // Conservation, Private Lands, The New West
![Ted Turner Photo by Todd Wilkinson](/content/articles/ic_1517267261_400x300_true.jpg)
Greater Yellowstone's rich tapestry will be won—or lost—based on what businesspeople do next
Read MoreWho Is Willing To Defend American Wilderness?
January 24, 2018 // Public Lands, Wilderness
![The Palisades Wilderness Study Area in Wyoming](/content/articles/ic_1516758833_400x300_true.jpg)
As attacks on wilderness and environmental laws rage, many citizens wonder why some prominent conservation groups seem to be missing in action?
Read MoreThe Story Of A River Otter Found Dead In A Snare
January 15, 2018
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Wyoming naturalist Susan Marsh says it's high time that society had an adult conversation about the real impacts of fur trapping
Read MoreBeholding Creation: Counting Birds At Christmas
December 23, 2017 // Culture, Wildlife
![Chickadee Photo courtesy NPS](/content/articles/ic_1514046877_400x300_true.jpg)
MoJo's Intrepid Nature Columnist Susan Marsh Carries On A Grand American Holiday Tradition
Read MoreEveryone Has An Opinion About Government But Many Citizens Would Flunk Civics
December 11, 2017
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In this provocative column by Susan Marsh, she wonders aloud: If citizens are so ignorant about lots of things, are we expecting too much in asking them to know and care about public lands, wildlife and nature?
Read MoreWhat Does It Take To Create A Conservationist?
November 6, 2017
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Retired Forest Service Wilderness Manager Susan Marsh contemplates what inspires wilderness users to become wilderness protectors.
Read MoreHolding The Line On Wild: Is The U.S. Forest Service Up To The Challenge?
October 19, 2017 // Forest Service, Outdoor Recreation, Wilderness
![Enchantment Basin from Prusik Pass in Alpine Lakes Wilderness by Jeffrey Pang](/content/articles/ic_1508467113_400x300_true.jpg)
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 MoreCaretaking America's Wild Homefront
October 3, 2017 // Forest Service, Public Lands
![The Gros Ventre Range, photo courtesy US Forest Service](/content/articles/ic_1507577328_400x300_true.jpg)
For Susan Marsh, who donned a Forest Service uniform, mountains were her medicine and protecting wilderness a way of giving back to her country
Read MoreA Good Life Writing After Years In The Forest Service
September 20, 2017 // Big Art of Nature, Conservation, Culture
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Mountain Journal columnist Susan Marsh spent three decades working for the US Forest Service, working on recreation and wilderness protection in both the Gallatin National Forest of Montana and Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest. Today she's an award-wining writer.
Read MoreFor A Generation, "The Blue Door" Was A Safe Space On Bozeman's Main Street
September 5, 2017
![The author contemplates the meaning of red, white and blue from behind the door of his clinical therapy practice in downtown Bozeman, Montana](/content/articles/ic_1504724628_400x300_true.jpg)
Psychotherapist Timothy J. Tate says the biggest downside of his community becoming the "it" place is the loss of handshake agreements.
Read MoreColumnist Rebecca Watters Navigates Nature Without Borders
August 14, 2017 // Climate Change, Columnists, Conservation, Ecosystem Protection, Wildlife
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Aldo Leopold advised the virtues of thinking like a mountain. Rebecca Watters invites us to ponder wildness from the perspective of a climate-challenged creature, the wolverine.
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