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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

Motorized Recreation Launches A Trifecta Assault To Claim America’s Backcountry

Scientist says actions would reverse generations of progress made in protecting the West's wildlife, watersheds and sanctity of wild places. Servheen and Wilkinson discuss it in their weekly column

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

Conservationists Go To Bat For Bison, American Prairie And The Law

What's happening now in the heart of the wide-open West is something of national importance. Its outcome has huge implications for hundreds of millions of acres from the Pacific to the Mississippi

Are The Secretary of Interior’s Ties To Yellowstone Club Problematic?

As Kate Groetzinger writes, Doug Burgum is a member of the ultra-exclusive private ski resort in Greater Yellowstone that has a history of controversial land deals and development

Does Outdoor Recreation Really Result In More And Better Wildlife Conservation?

Scientists say most conservation groups continue to give this industry a pass or look the other way on its impacts. Why is that? Another installment in our series, "Are Funhogs Loving America's Wild Country to Death?"

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

Videos Highlighting Grizzly Bears On Moth Sites Incite Backlash

Are social media influencers helping to educate the masses or bringing more pressure on wildlife and wild places? A new column, "Conversations from the Green Thicket," enlists Chris Servheen to talk about impacts on The Great Bear

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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