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A Wolf Champion And Elder Looks Back At 30 Years Of Recovery In Yellowstone

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?

Sublette County, Wyoming Has Truly World-Class Wildlife, But Do Locals Really Want To Protect It?

Dan Stroud, a wildlife biologist who lives in Sublette, spent 32 years with Wyoming Game and Fish. He believes time has come to survey local residents to see if they're willing to safeguard landscapes that sets their community and wildlife heritage apart. More than ever, he says, wise foresighted planning is necessary

Stoking “The Fierce Green Fire” Of Wildness Is A Legacy We Need To Embrace

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.

Saving Greater Yellowstone Requires Urgent Action Because “The Clock Is Ticking” Fast, New Book Says

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

Of Bobcats And Future Missing Lynx?

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

Conflating Recreation With Conservation Is Not Wilderness Preservation

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

Why Reversing The Forest Service’s Roadless Rule Matters For All Nature-Loving Americans

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?

Public Lands Vital To Future Of Both Young Humans And Wildlife

In his column, Tom Mangelsen says we need to re-affirm our conviction that public lands must remain in public hands. And the time to let senators know is now

Elk Are Vital Fuel In Greater Yellowstone’s Biological Power Grid

The wapiti depicted in Helen Seay's grand mural in downtown Jackson, Wyoming are windows into appreciating the most cutting-edge principles in large landscape conservation on Earth. Yet looming over the fate of elk in Greater Yellowstone are loss of habitat and the scourge of CWD

Dragonfly Dreamer

Brooke Williams' new book, "Encountering Dragonfly: Notes on the Practice of Re-Enchantment," explores how a dream led him through near mortality and a deeper connection to the natural world
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