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In Yellowstone, What’s Connection Between Democracy And Environmental Protection?

We have the recordings of the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative's provocative presentations given at its 10th biennial symposium in Jackson Hole. Featuring experts and good work by local conservation groups, they've created a buzz and have people talking. You can view them free here.

“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

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
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