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
Melissa Blessing grew up as an inheritor of wealth, and then she sought to have a life of true substance by sinking her hands into the soil and her mind into the non-material world
Three prominent researchers raise red flags about alleged "protection plan" for Gallatin Mountains. Drs. Andrew Hansen, Cathy Whitlock and Bruce Maxwell say strategy from Gallatin Forest Partnership sells conservation short and appears to lack scientific understanding of impacts on range's world-class wildlife
From wolverines and river otters to black-footed ferrets and badgers, this amazing family of species is well represented on Helen Seay's outdoor wildlife mural in Jackson, Wyoming. No mere fashion statements, many face an uncertain future
As Greater Yellowstone contemplates the future and ponders how it can protect its special sense of place, Big Sky represents sprawl's unwanted poster child. A story about why better ecologically-minded planning matters in Greater Yellowstone
View the conversation now being watched by thousands: Photographer Thomas Mangelsen joins former grizzly recovery coordinator Chris Servheen in a frank discussion about the state of conservation with journalist Todd Wilkinson
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?
Rallies are planned nationwide Saturday. One in Livingston, Montana features Marc Racicot, former governor of Montana and onetime head of the Republican National Committee. Public land advocates also will gather in Gardiner on front door of Yellowstone
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?
They’re angelic symbols of how a species can be brought back. But as the plight of trumpeter swans in Yellowstone shows, they’re also reminders of how wildlife conservation is not a destination but a duty of care passed along from one generation of advocates to the next
