Category: Community

Many roadless lands have higher wildlife and habitat values than national parks and they hold the headwaters of drinking water for tens of millions of Americans. Will nearly 59 million acres of these precious public lands lose their protection?
The wapiti depicted in Helen Seay's grand mural in downtown Jackson, Wyoming are windows into appreciating the most cutting-edge principles in large landscape conservation on Earth. Yet looming over the fate of elk in Greater Yellowstone are loss of habitat and the scourge of CWD
Brooke Williams' new book, "Encountering Dragonfly: Notes on the Practice of Re-Enchantment," explores how a dream led him through near mortality and a deeper connection to the natural world
On Thursday, May 22 at 7 pm in Bozeman, Montana, former governor Marc Racicot and the challenger who almost beat him, Dorothy Bradley, will converge in "the radical middle." They'll be talking democracy, public lands, civility and the need for courage. The free event is at the historic Ellen Theater
Do we need to install red crosses to make the ongoing toll of fallen wildlife more visible? Kris Ellingsen of Gallatin Gateway, Montana writes that we must wake up to traumatic changes we are exacting on the natural world
As the Dakota/Lakota poet and essayist reminds, "medicine" isn't only a word that serves as a remedy for what ails us; it is nourishment and sustenance for keeping us healthy and connected to a healthy land
It's not long, but nature photographer Holly Pippel's reel of wildlife images in Montana's Gallatin Valley—and sobering glimpses of the effects of sprawl—will open your eyes. It also begs the question: What are you willing to do to protect the sense of nature that still remains at the edge of your community?
Nature's wonders remind Dorothy Bradley why she's a proud, humble Westerner, why she stepped up to be a public servant 50 years ago, and that the most precious things are right in front of our eyes right now. Their defense, she says, cannot wait
Yellowstonian shares remarks that former two-term Montana governor Marc Racicot delivered recently to a group of citizens in Livingston, who hail from across the spectrum and are concerned about where their country is headed
Wild nature, that supports the persistence of the wildest species, is finite. A test of our time is whether visionaries can come together and save America's last best wildlife ecoregion in the Lower 48 from following the same path as everywhere else. What do you think?