Category: Human Footprint

A new groundswell of citizens called M4WW wants to safeguard better protection for Greater Yellowstone's most vulnerable mountain range that still holds world-class wildlife. You need not be a Montanan to support the effort
The story of challenges to grizzly bear recovery in the Northern Rockies needs honesty and truth, not more melodrama, grandstanding and fear
Art installation and book by Mountain Time Arts and Janet Zweig calls attention to Bozeman’s namesake creek and the need to heal it. The project is one that should resonate in any community with water flowing through it. Special unveiling set for Aug 12 in Bozeman. Public is invited
Dorothy Bradley has devoted much of her professional life to pondering the beneficial uses of water and its allocation. As development pressures swell, she says, it's time to resolve inconsistencies if we are to avoid wicked conflicts plaguing other regions
Robert Keiter, one of the foremost experts on policies shaping Yellowstone region, says time is running out to adequately protect its world-class wildlife and intactness. Desperately needed is a strategy and unifying vision
Is funhogism a Trojan Horse being used by major outdoor gear manufacturers to exploit what remains of our last wild places? Mason Parker and Katie Bilodeau raise important questions that many self-described protection groups don't want to discuss
In the face of explosive growth trends, noted Montanan Dorothy Bradley wonders aloud: "What's the wisest path for preserving a line of still-wild mountains that represent an appendage of Yellowstone National Park?" Her answer: don't give it away.
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
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