Todd Wilkinson – Yellowstonian

Wildlife

The Grizzly Outcomes Of Letting Our Dogs Run Wild

Study highlights the problems with off-leash dogs joining people in bear country. It’s fertile terrain for latest edition of Yellowstonian’s popular column, “Conversations from the Green Thicket”

Todd Wilkinson July 28, 2026

Wildlife

Carole King: Melodic Voice Of American Wilderness

As a rare member of both the Songwriters and Rock and Roll hall of fames, Carole King through NREPA is championing the sonorous calls of bugling elk, howling wolves and rhythms of the unmechanized wild West

Todd Wilkinson July 12, 2026

Wildlife

How Two Groups In Jackson Hole Set Pace For Protecting Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance and Jackson Hole Land Trust receive Yellowstonian’s first Conservation Leadership Award. Find out why they stand out in grassroots land protection

Todd Wilkinson July 14, 2026

Wildlife

For Jon Fossel, There’s An Epitaph Everlasting In Montana

Jon Fossel climbed a towering ladder of success in New York City but his greatest feat was embracing restraint to save a magical corner of the wild West from ruin

Todd Wilkinson July 11, 2026

Wildlife

Can Younger Generations Still Be Taught To Defend Wildlife and Wilderness?

In our provocative interview with former Harvard professor Jim Engell, who is leading Montanans for Wildlife and Wilderness, we explore this vexing question that has huge implications for conservation

Todd Wilkinson June 25, 2026

Wildlife

“Grizzlies In Greater Yellowstone Now Face A Dark Future”

The biologist who served as principal architect for recovering grizzlies in the Northern Rockies says those who are shredding the blueprint are destroying an American wildlife success story—and “should be ashamed of themselves”

Todd Wilkinson July 15, 2026

Wildlife

A Chat About Bear Spray In Grizzly Country

In their latest column for Yellowstonian, Wilkinson and national bear expert Chris Servheen discuss why the invention of bear spray became a game-changing tool in safely navigating the land of the Great Bear

Todd Wilkinson June 26, 2026

Wildlife

Will Grizzly 399’s Life Result In Better Bear Recovery?

What lessons, if any, did Jackson Hole Grizzly 399, the most famous mother bear in the world, teach us about co-existence? New book by Susan Clark and Ana Lambert explores the question—and in this story you can download a free digital copy!

Todd Wilkinson July 1, 2026

Wildlife

Motorized Recreation Launches A Trifecta Assault To Claim America’s Backcountry

Scientist says actions would reverse generations of progress made in protecting the West’s wildlife, watersheds and sanctity of wild places. Servheen and Wilkinson discuss it in their weekly column

Todd Wilkinson June 7, 2026

Wildlife

Where Grizzlies Roam, Cattle And Timber To Be Kings Again?

On top of national forests and BLM tracts being flooded with more cattle, Greater Yellowstone wildlands may see an unprecedented surge in logging. In their column, Servheen and Wilkinson discuss impacts on grizzlies and conservation

Todd Wilkinson June 18, 2026