Category: Difference Makers

Give Big, sponsored by One Valley Community Foundation, is a 24-hour blitz of goodwill supporting non-profits working on quality of life issues in southwest Montana and Greater Yellowstone. Yellowstonian is one of the groups. Now is your time to make a big difference
The Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative is hosting a one-day public symposium in Jackson Hole on April 30 that is blend of pep rally, reports about exciting science, celebration of good work and serious discussion about challenges facing one of the most iconic wildlife-rich ecosystems on Earth. You are invited
Ecologist Andrew Boyce-Pero is giving a talk on ongoing efforts to restore prairie biodiversity as part of the Gallatin Valley Earth Day speaker series. You can enjoy his presentation April 8 from the comfort of your own living room
Unbelievably, we are not making this up. Read the press release issued by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on how unprecedented natural resource extraction will "Make America Beautiful Again" in a new "Golden Age"
Wallace Stegner Center Symposium, scheduled for March 19-20, arrives at crucial moment when so much is up for grabs. If you care about the West, we suggest you make the time to attend live or tune in via live-stream
It's official: Donald J. Trump is already the most anti-conservation President in US history, unprotecting more land, water and air than any predecessor
Science under siege: If Steve Daines, Tim Sheehy and others prevail in the quest to de-regulate industry on public lands, what will the West look like in another 20 years, on top of the looming impacts of climate and AI? They're afraid to discuss it
Letter written by four descendants of Theodore Roosevelt sends strong message to members of Congress and Trump Administration who are promoting actions deemed hostile to protection of wild places
Would the legendary "Old Lion" be flattered by Zinke's claims to be his doppelgänger, or be roaring from the grave with gruff disapproval?
As the Great Salt Lake continues to die and rivers in many states are coming under unprecedented pressure, photographer David Showalter celebrates the West's glittering gem, the Colorado, in a new book. Is hope enough to save it?