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Wildlife

Subdivisions: As Impactful To Wildlife Over Time As Clearcuts, Mines And Energy Combined

On public land in Greater Yellowstone, resource extraction is subjected to rigorous environmental analysis but not so on private land where sprawl is exacting a deepening, permanent and more proliferating toll

Todd Wilkinson January 3, 2025

Wildlife

What Happens When Greater Yellowstone’s Conservation Movement Goes MIA On Sprawl?

Why are the biggest conservation groups working in America’s most iconic ecosystem avoiding the biggest threat to the survival of its famous wildlife?

Todd Wilkinson January 2, 2025

Art

Harrowing Journeys: Stories Behind A Grand Animal Mural Coming To You In 2025

In downtown Jackson, Wyoming, Helen Seay has created a wildlife mural that celebrates the biodiversity of Greater Yellowstone. Together with Wyoming Untrapped, Yellowstonian will be telling tales of species survival

Todd Wilkinson December 27, 2024

Wildlife

How To Touch The Future

Land Trusts are on the front lines of resisting unwanted landscape changes sweeping across our favorite valleys but they’re underdogs. Help them succeed

Todd Wilkinson December 15, 2024

Wildlife

Grizzly Experts Say Delisting Shouldn’t Happen Til Old Recovery Plan Amended

Dr. Christopher Servheen, who guided federal grizzly conservation efforts for 35 years and who wrote recovery plan, says old document is outdated. Bear management, he insists, needs to acknowledge new threats and use best available science

Todd Wilkinson December 11, 2024

Human Footprint

The Land Planner Who Tried To Prevent Disasters On Nature

Doris Fischer was the chief planner in Madison County when development in Big Sky erupted. She has advice for high-growth rural counties in Greater Yellowstone. And she believes one day the Jack Creek Road will become public, putting the Madison Valley in peril

Todd Wilkinson December 10, 2024

Columnist

How To Find The Montana That Still Is

In our interview with Montana Quarterly’s Scott McMillion, we talk about dramatic change, people left behind, Jon Tester’s loss and the essence of great storytelling. McMillion even throws in a big game recipe!

Todd Wilkinson November 25, 2024

Wildlife

“A Lament for Grizzly 399” Is Symphonic Sendoff For The Ages

Renowned Montana classical composer Eric Funk collaborates with nature videographers Sandy Mell and Greg Balvin on original tribute to late famous Jackson Hole grizzly. It’s a sensual feast for eyes and ears

Todd Wilkinson November 17, 2024

Wildlife

Where Does The West Go From Here?

New book, “A Watershed Moment: The American West in the Age of Limits,” enlists incredible roster of writers to assess where we’re at. Yellowstonian interviews one of the editors, Robert Frodeman, about limits and how we decipher myth from reality

Todd Wilkinson November 12, 2024

Wildlife

New Scientific Study Focuses On Largest Threat To Greater Yellowstone’s Iconic Wildlife

Sprawl is happening everywhere but in the bioregion surrounding Yellowstone it is having huge impacts on a wildlife concentration unparalleled in the Lower 48 and renowned in the world. We guarantee this study will open your eyes

Todd Wilkinson November 11, 2024