Island Park, Idaho is no island when it comes to fire, nor its vulnerability in the forest. Do residents there—and elsewhere—accept that living in Greater Yellowstone demands more ecological awareness and responsibility? An excerpt of Paul Rogers' essay appearing in the book, "A Watershed Moment"
Our aim is delivering a lot more stories about wildlife, wild places and why their protection matters to you. During Give Big Gallatin Valley, we're joining other non profits in this annual 24-hour fundraiser. We'd be grateful for your support
Need inspiration? As a special feature of NRCC’s daylong Conservation Symposium, 20 different short “QuickTalks” highlight good work being done around Greater Yellowstone in meeting challenges. And from afar you can tune in via live-stream
Ecologist Andrew Boyce-Pero is giving a talk on ongoing efforts to restore prairie biodiversity as part of the Gallatin Valley Earth Day speaker series. You can enjoy his presentation April 8 from the comfort of your own living room
It didn't happen by accident or fluke. Giving safeguards to national forest roadless lands followed decades of battles between industry that was felling trees at an unsustainable rate and conservationists seeing the best secure habitat for fish and wildlife being lost to "multiple use" management
Poet Lois Red Elk turns to lyrical prose, sharing stories about where dreams merge with reality, past with the present, and sentient beings remaining sacred in life, death and the journey between
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
In his latest take on current events, cartoonist John Potter has a message for Congressman Ryan Zinke, who's trying to pass himself off as a modern Teddy Roosevelt. "Everyone sees what you're doing."