Randy Carpenter is retiring after spending 30 years in the trenches of land use planning. Greater Yellowstone is at a point, he says, where beloved healthy rural landscapes will be lost unless advocates insist on slowing the spread of sprawl
Columnist Brad Orsted returns! He's back with a rumination about passing through mountain lion country in Yellowstone—and trying to get himself unrattled
In his long tenure as a range ecologist who worked for both federal and state agencies, Dan Stroud witnessed a cultural shift happen in where priorities were placed, he writes in this op-ed. In his eyes, the shift did not benefit wildlife
Do American public lands really suffer from a lack of human access? If we ever posed the question to wildlife, likely 100 percent of species would disagree with the premise
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
In his column, Tom Mangelsen says we need to re-affirm our conviction that public lands must remain in public hands. And the time to let senators know is now
As the Dakota/Lakota poet and essayist reminds, "medicine" isn't only a word that serves as a remedy for what ails us; it is nourishment and sustenance for keeping us healthy and connected to a healthy land
Nature's wonders remind Dorothy Bradley why she's a proud, humble Westerner, why she stepped up to be a public servant 50 years ago, and that the most precious things are right in front of our eyes right now. Their defense, she says, cannot wait
