Category: Yellowstone

Annihilation is an ugly word. Yellowstonian's poet in residence Lois Red Elk explores how the plight, and unstoppable growing return of bison, is fulfilling the dreams and prophecies of her Lakota/Dakota ancestors
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
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.
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
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
On Thursday, May 22 at 7 pm in Bozeman, Montana, former governor Marc Racicot and the challenger who almost beat him, Dorothy Bradley, will converge in "the radical middle." They'll be talking democracy, public lands, civility and the need for courage. The free event is at the historic Ellen Theater
From wolverines and river otters to black-footed ferrets and badgers, this amazing family of species is well represented on Helen Seay's outdoor wildlife mural in Jackson, Wyoming. No mere fashion statements, many face an uncertain future
The "Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem," as we know it now, would not exist if Yellowstone were not created in 1872 as a cornerstone of America's public lands. Some in Congress and Western states would sell public lands to the highest private or commercial bidders
View the conversation now being watched by thousands: Photographer Thomas Mangelsen joins former grizzly recovery coordinator Chris Servheen in a frank discussion about the state of conservation with journalist Todd Wilkinson