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
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
George Wuerthner says proposed legislation by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Wilderness Society and Wild Montana isn't visionary. It sacrifices safe wildlife habitat to appease outdoor recreation. Part 2 in an ongoing series titled, "Are Funhogs Loving America's Wild Country to Death?"
Part one in an ongoing series titled, "Are Funhogs Loving America's Wild Country to Death?" Instead of defending the last best finite habitat for wildlife that remains, why are some conservationists instead pushing to have it become playgrounds?
Painter Barbara Rusmore opens a show of new and selected old works. For the Bozeman conservationist and member of the Montana Outdoor Hall of Fame, beauty has fueled her fire for preservation
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
51 years, 7 months; Oct 1, 1973 to May 1, 2025; 18,840 days, 2,691 weeks. Unnoticed. Time flies, Steven Fuller says. Here he reflects on a time when winters were long and summer tourist seasons short
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
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
Wallace Stegner Center Symposium, scheduled for March 19-20, arrives at crucial moment when so much is up for grabs. If you care about the West, we suggest you make the time to attend live or tune in via live-stream
