Category: Public Lands

Today, as a nonagenarian, Norm Bishop reflects on how the foundation for wolf reintroduction in America's best known national park happened. What are the crucial lessons, which some clearly want to forget, that still need to be heeded?
Robert Keiter, one of the foremost experts on policies shaping Yellowstone region, says time is running out to adequately protect its world-class wildlife and intactness. Desperately needed is a strategy and unifying vision
Will lynx be the first official mammal lost from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in our lifetime? As meso-carnivores, these two wildcats are harbingers not only of challenges laying ahead, but of potential new ways of thinking about the value of species
Is funhogism a Trojan Horse being used by major outdoor gear manufacturers to exploit what remains of our last wild places? Mason Parker and Katie Bilodeau raise important questions that many self-described protection groups don't want to discuss
In the face of explosive growth trends, noted Montanan Dorothy Bradley wonders aloud: "What's the wisest path for preserving a line of still-wild mountains that represent an appendage of Yellowstone National Park?" Her answer: don't give it away.
Many roadless lands have higher wildlife and habitat values than national parks and they hold the headwaters of drinking water for tens of millions of Americans. Will nearly 59 million acres of these precious public lands lose their protection?