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“Grizzlies In Greater Yellowstone Now Face A Dark Future”

The biologist who served as principal architect for recovering grizzlies in the Northern Rockies says those who are shredding the blueprint are destroying an American wildlife success story—and “should be ashamed of themselves”

Big Sky’s Elephants In The Room

Welcome to Big Sky: In his latest cartoon, John Potter sheds light on the real cause of rising wildlife roadkills along US 191, pollution threats to the Gallatin River and the loom of catastrophic wildfire. Developers, he says, would rather pretend these elephants in the room don't exist

A Chat About Bear Spray In Grizzly Country

In their latest column for Yellowstonian, Wilkinson and national bear expert Chris Servheen discuss why the invention of bear spray became a game-changing tool in safely navigating the land of the Great Bear

Will Grizzly 399’s Life Result In Better Bear Recovery?

What lessons, if any, did Jackson Hole Grizzly 399, the most famous mother bear in the world, teach us about co-existence? New book by Susan Clark and Ana Lambert explores the question—and in this story you can download a free digital copy!

Little Bighorn—Always About Far More Than Custer

In this historic summer, Yellowstonian columnist Brad Orsted attended the 150th anniversary of the battle at Greasy Grass. No matter who you are, he says, you can't erase the past

Where Grizzlies Roam, Cattle And Timber To Be Kings Again?

On top of national forests and BLM tracts being flooded with more cattle, Greater Yellowstone wildlands may see an unprecedented surge in logging. In their column, Servheen and Wilkinson discuss impacts on grizzlies and conservation

Law Professor Says Interior’s Actions Against American Prairie Arbitrary And Capricious

James Huffman, a former law professor, scrutinizes the controversial decision by BLM to cancel the organization's grazing allotments because it wanted to run bison, not cattle, in service to conservation

Tearing Grizzly Habitat Into Pieces

Michael Garrity says the Forest Service is illegally shrinking "secure habitat" for grizzlies in the Northern Rockies by authorizing huge deforestation projects. That's why his group and others are challenging the agency in court

Wyoming’s Failure Looms Large In The Wake Of Cody Roberts

Franz Camenzind, a lifelong Jackson Hole conservationist and canid biologist, says wildlife management is failing to uphold the public trust

Sacrificing Wildness For A Notion The Forest Service Can’t Defend

The Custer-Gallatin, already attracting public outrage over its new attempt to "get the cut out," is targeting two areas close to Bozeman. Dorothy Bradley says that for this "bad idea," past is prelude
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