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Grizzly 399 And Cub—An Update From Jackson Hole

June 17, 2023

A mother's love: 399 and cub likely to be her last
At Summer Solstice and more than a month out of the den, 399 has devoted much time, Thomas Mangelsen says, to helping her cub understand the joy of play
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Pondering Loneliness When You Live In A Place Some Call Shangri-la

June 16, 2023

For most people, seeking solitude is different from living a solitary life
People flee to the wilds seeking solitude and yet there's a crisis of human disconnection now gripping America. Therapist Timothy Tate explores what's behind it
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Why Insurance Companies Are Pulling Out Of Fire-Prone Areas in California

June 15, 2023

Aftermath of a wildland-urban interface neighborhood in Oregon that was burned by wildfire
An emergency management expert advises on how to reduce risk. Her top suggestion: make smarter land use choices and limit development in risky areas
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Mountains In Wilderness Don’t Need Hardware

June 13, 2023

Will a new bill in Congress untie parts of the Wilderness Act of 1964?

New legislation could allow rock climbers to install permanent fixtures in Wilderness areas in Greater Yellowstone and nationwide
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Complements in Landscape Beauty: Art and Place in the Gros Ventre and Beyond

June 12, 2023

The Teton Range from the sandstone rim on “Magic Ridge.”
Returning to ‘Magic Ridge,’ Susan Marsh rediscovers the many faces of Nature’s splendor
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Brad Orsted Knows: Immersion In Nature Can Heal Worst Kind Of Pain

June 12, 2023

Orsted titled this portrait he took of a Yellowstone wolf pack "A Family Affair"
In new, long-awaited book, Montana photographer writes how wandering through grizzly and wolf country has helped him recover from young daughter's tragic death
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In Marley's Memory, He Chooses Survival

June 12, 2023

Orsted credits grizzlies with giving him a reason to live
After suffering the devastating loss of his young daughter, Brad Orsted fell into bleak darkness—then the grizzly-inhabited wild country of Greater Yellowstone led him back into the light
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'Cracked' Makes Strong Case For Tearing Down Dams That Took Wild Rivers

June 8, 2023

The Yellowstone River is the liquid gem of Paradise Valley. Some wanted to have it dammed
Across West, author Steven Hawley writes, logic that justified damming rivers is wrong. Like Yosemite battle over Hetch Hetchy, Greater Yellowstone had its own fights
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To Stop A Grizzly And How Bear Spray Saved A Life

June 6, 2023

A large male grizzly approaches the camera in Greater Yellowstone
When a grizzly bear charged Keegan David, he had seconds to react. He shared his story with Mountain Journal.
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How A Citizen Is Raising Awareness About Threat Of Grand Targhee Expansion

June 1, 2023

Crepuscular rays over the Tetons from the "quiet side"
Howie Garber’s new book touches on the beauty of wildness through a photographer’s lens
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Solving the Mystery of Hemingway’s ‘Big Two-Hearted River’

May 26, 2023

Master engraver Chris Wormell was specially commissioned to provide original artwork for the Centennial Edition of "Big Two-Hearted River"
John Maclean’s foreword to Hemingway’s early masterpiece in the recently published ‘Centennial Edition'
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Can Natural Character Of South Jackson Hole Endure Without Limits On People?

May 26, 2023

A view of the "Northern South Park Neighborhood" in Jackson Hole
Claims that community must grow to fix the affordable housing crisis are not only based on faulty logic but are destroying valley's beloved sense of place, Robert Frodeman writes
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Bison Calf Euthanized After ‘Intentionally Disturbed’ by Man in Yellowstone

May 23, 2023

A bison calf at sunrise on Blacktail Deer Plateau in Yellowstone
Park incident under investigation after witnesses report seeing man push bison calf up hill from Lamar River to roadway
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Montana's Flaring White Nationalism Prominent In New Ray Ring Novel

May 23, 2023

Ring on the trail of his plot
Former journalist who worked for High Country News in Bozeman, unfurls a murder mystery that flows from the gridiron of college football and interracial relationship
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