Yellowstonain Todd Wilkinson

Category: Opinion

Citizen Sweeney: Channeling Anger Into Civic Duty

For Alison Sweeney, a sixth-generation Montanan, rescuing Bozeman's "Sense of Place" means safeguarding its historic neighborhoods, protecting its world-class natural setting and guaranteeing that working stiffs like her can still live in the community

Of Rugged Poseurs And The Big Rigs They Drive

John Potter debuts a new cartoon for Yellowstonian. In his first outing, the master of satire takes aim at transplants who mistakenly believe image is everything

Tim Crawford Was Right About A Demolished Trailer Park Reflecting New Bozeman Values

Sometimes past predictions about the course of communities are valuable in assessing where they are still headed. This piece by the late Tim Crawford causes us to reflect on—and remember—the losers of Bozeman's boastful prosperity

Wonderland In Repose: A Yellowstone Winterkeeper Looks Back

This is the first December in 51 years that Steven Fuller has not been a winterkeeper at Canyon Village in America's first national park. In his debut Yellowstonian column, part of an ongoing retrospective series, he reflects on living in a natural dreamscape

In Montana’s Big Open, Grizzlies Gaining Some Ground

Dr. Christopher Servheen: Not only is this good news, as bears expand without major incidents into their historic prairie haunts, but state officials are doing great work monitoring the movement of bears. This is crucial, he says, for winning trust and social tolerance.

Lessons In Humility About Wolves

As John Vucetich writes from the oldest ongoing wolf study on Earth, science isn't about delivering answers frozen in time. It's about having the courage to learn from asking the right questions

Ancient Touchstone

Lois Red Elk, elder poet and Yellowstonian's bard in residence, returns with her column, Inyan Zi Voices, and a rumination on the power of a buffalo skull. Enjoy

This Carpenter Speaks Truth About How To Hold America’s Best Wildlife Ecosystem Together

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

Bradley: American Prairie Is A Gift Our Descendants Will Be Grateful For

Invocations: When A Wild Ghost Leaves Its Tracks

Columnist Brad Orsted returns! He's back with a rumination about passing through mountain lion country in Yellowstone—and trying to get himself unrattled
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