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Category: Human Footprint

“More Precious Than” Illuminates The Lifeblood Of Human and Natural Landscapes

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

The West’s Most Precious Commodity Deserves To Have Its Day In Court—As In The “Water Court”

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

Stoking “The Fierce Green Fire” Of Wildness Is A Legacy We Need To Embrace

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.

Saving Greater Yellowstone Requires Urgent Action Because “The Clock Is Ticking” Fast, New Book Says

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

Conflating Recreation With Conservation Is Not Wilderness Preservation

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

Why Reversing The Forest Service’s Roadless Rule Matters For All Nature-Loving Americans

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?

Elk Are Vital Fuel In Greater Yellowstone’s Biological Power Grid

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

Eyes Blind, And Do Not Yet See

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

Money Changes Everything

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

What Is ‘Conservation’ Without Wildlife Conservation Informed By Science?

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
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