Category: Public Lands

Need inspiration?  As a special feature of NRCC’s daylong Conservation Symposium, 20 different short “QuickTalks” highlight good work being done around Greater Yellowstone in meeting challenges. And from afar you can tune in via live-stream
The Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative is hosting a one-day public symposium in Jackson Hole on April 30 that is blend of pep rally, reports about exciting science, celebration of good work and serious discussion about challenges facing one of the most iconic wildlife-rich ecosystems on Earth. You are invited
Ecologist Andrew Boyce-Pero is giving a talk on ongoing efforts to restore prairie biodiversity as part of the Gallatin Valley Earth Day speaker series. You can enjoy his presentation April 8 from the comfort of your own living room
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
Our interview with Minnesota conservationist Becky Rom frames the debate over a controversial copper and nickel mine proposed for the BWCAW.  She mentions rejection of science, potential conflicts of interests and parallels with efforts to save Yellowstone from a similar threat