George Wuerthner says proposed legislation by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Wilderness Society and Wild Montana isn't visionary. It sacrifices safe wildlife habitat to appease outdoor recreation. Part 2 in an ongoing series titled, "Are Funhogs Loving America's Wild Country to Death?"
Part one in an ongoing series titled, "Are Funhogs Loving America's Wild Country to Death?" Instead of defending the last best finite habitat for wildlife that remains, why are some conservationists instead pushing to have it become playgrounds?
It didn't happen by accident or fluke. Giving safeguards to national forest roadless lands followed decades of battles between industry that was felling trees at an unsustainable rate and conservationists seeing the best secure habitat for fish and wildlife being lost to "multiple use" management
Ground Shift? Adam Bronstein says in this age of extinction and accelerating habitat loss, we need a new model for landscapes in the West and the communities that rely on them—not the status quo repackaged in new rhetoric
In his latest take on current events, cartoonist John Potter has a message for Congressman Ryan Zinke, who's trying to pass himself off as a modern Teddy Roosevelt. "Everyone sees what you're doing."
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"
Even amid the battle cry of keeping American "public lands in public hands," free market influencers are at work pushing to privatize the assets of those lands only to let future generations deal with the unwanted consequences
Chris Madson, retired award-winning editor of Wyoming Wildlife magazine, aims the question at Angi Bruce who heads the agency. It's an inquiry fit for every state in America but in few is there more at stake for iconic animals
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
The Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota is a beloved American crown jewel—as treasured as Yellowstone, Glacier and the Grand Canyon. So why, millions wonder, is it being put at risk?
