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2022 Articles
October 13th - Joseph Scalia, Strive for full, open debate on environmental issues, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
October 4th - George Wuerthner, A Fool’s Errand: Trying to Influence Fire by Logging, Counterpunch
September 13th - Mike Garrity, Conservation Groups Sue to Protect Yellowstone Grizzly Bears From Expanded Cattle Grazing, Counterpunch
September 6th - George Wuerthner & Phil Knight, Expand the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness, The Wildlife News
August 9th - Bill Ripple et el., Rewilding the American West, BioScience
August 3rd - George Wuerthner, Defending the Big Wild, Counterpunch
July 27th - Mike Bader, Backcountry Dealing-Making on Montana Wilderness, Counterpunch
July 26th - Amanda Eggert, Where will all the wildlife go?, Montana Free Press
July 25th - George Wuerthner, Alternatives to Wilderness? Not Needed., The Wildlife News
July 20th - Ryan Devereaux, Was Yellowstone’s Deadliest Wolf Hunt in 100 Years an Inside Job?, The Intercept
July 12th- George Wuerthner, A Greater Yellowstone National Park Proposal, Counterpunch
June 29th - Horejsi, Wuerthner, Bader & Gilbert, Guest view: Relocate the Old Gardiner Road, Montana Standard
June 21st - Mike Bader, Wild Green Washing Machines, CounterPunch
June 14th - Emily Tschetter, Bear experts: Urban-area grizzly encounters up in Missoula, city on ‘frontlines’ of issue, Missoula Current
June 13th - Justin Franz, Yellowstone National Park closed as rivers rise in southern Montana, Montana Free Press
June 13th - Mike Bader, Viewpoint: Bitterroot project a bait and switch, Missoula Current
June 5th - George Wuerthner, Viewpoint: Bitterroot project a bait and switch, The Wildlife News
June 3rd - George Wuerthner, Decision to Permit Livestock Grazing in Upper Green Allotments Betrayal of Public Trust, The Wildlife News
May 24th - Joseph Scalia, Must Environmental Leaders Conform? Or Dare We Actually Lead?, ReWilding Earth
May 23trd - George Wuerthner, “Stick to the Facts”–How Green Groups Fail to Protect the Gallatin Range, The Wildlife News
May 20th - Kabel Roedel, Analysis of recent federal land protections shows Western states are all over the map, KUNR
May 19th - Carole King, ‘America’s forests are a key climate solution’, The Hill
May 18th - George Wuerthner, Gratitude for National Parks, Counterpunch
May 16th - Todd Wilkinson, Grizzlies Around Yellowstone Are Entering A Big Squeeze, Mountain Journal
May 12th - George Wuerthner, Conservation Groups Threaten To Sue On East Paradise Grazing Decision, The Wildlife News
April 27th - George Ochenski, Why is Environmental Protection a Partisan Issue?, Counterpunch
April 23rd - George Wuerthner, Montana’s Bitterroot Front Project More FS Snake Oil, The Wildlife News
April 22nd - Mike Garrity, Protect Old Growth and Mature Forests, Counterpunch
April 14th - Bill Schneider, Viewpoint: Wilderness ‘purists’ the last hope for Montana’s wild places, Missoula Current
April 10th - Nancy Schultz, Daines, Risch off base in column about wolves, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
April 10th - George Wuerthner, George Wuerthner: Yellowstone the shining beacon for conservation, Billings Gazette
April 9th - Bill Schneider, Are conservation purists really the problem?, Daily Montanan
April 6th - Clint Nagel, Wilderness 'purists' aren't in it for personal gain, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
April 5th - Todd Wilkinson, Outdoor Recreation Equals Conservation: Debunking The Myth, Mountain Journal
April Issue - George Wuerthner, Yellowstone National Park At 150: Still A Remarkable Achievement, National Parks Traveler
April 1st - Mike Garrity, What are the Greater Yellowstone Coalition’s Ethics Worth?, Counter Punch
March 29th - Todd Wilkinson, Is Yellowstone Tourism Promotion Helping Or Hurting The Protection Of Wild Places and Wildlife?, Mountain Journal
March 28th - Paige Williams, Killing Wolves to Own the Libs?, The New Yorker
March 24th - Christopher Ketcham, Is clear-cutting U.S. forests good for wildlife?, National Geographic
March 13 - MoJo, How Much Is Enough? (To Save Or Destroy A World-Class Ecosystem?), Mountain Journal
Spring 2022 - Vaia Errett, Keep It Wild, Outside Bozeman
February 20th - George Ochenski, Montana’s Republican politicians ignoring voters’ conservation priorities, Independent Record
February 19th - George Wuerthner, “Conservation” Groups Cheer Recreation over Wilderness Protection, The Wildlife News
February 18th - Laura Lundquist, Poll: Climate change, water loss, habitat top concerns of Montanans, Western voters, Missoula Current
February 10th - George Wuerthner, Follow the Money, The Wildlife News
February 8th - Deb Haaland, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland Speaks Up On Wolves, But Is It Enough?, Mountain Journal
February 4th - George Wuerthner, Custer-Gallatin National Forest Plan is a Disappointment, The Wildlife News
January 2022 - David Mattson, A Will to Dominate; Problems and Pathologies of State Wildlife Management, Grizzly Times
January 26th - University of British Columbia, Data from thousands of cameras confirms protected areas promote mammal diversity, Science Daily
January 20th- Tim Caro et al. , An inconvenient misconception: Climate change is not the principal driver of biodiversity loss, Science Daily
Winter 21/22- Joe Gutkoski , Mountain Mystery, Outside Bozeman
January 10th- - Mike Bader, The Fish and Wildlife Service Must Reject Gianforte’s Political Grizzly Bear Petition, Counterpunch
January 6th- - George Wuerthner, Treat bison as the matchless legacy they represent, Independent Record
January 5th - Joseph Scalia, Guest opinion: Greens making unacceptable compromises, Billings Gazette
2021 Articles
December 29th - George Wuerthner, Paradise Lost? Custer Gallatin NF Approves Expansion of Grazing by Yellowstone, The Wildlife News
December 28th -Todd Wilkinson , The Climber-Conservationist Who Literally Put Greater Yellowstone On The Map, MoJo
December 22nd - George Wuerthner, Start treating Yellowstone bison the way they deserve, BDC
December 22nd - Sara Johnson, Rivers are Protected When We Protect Our Forests, Counterpunch
December 16th - George Wuerthner, Guest View: Forests on public lands should be carbon reservoirs, Register Guard
December 15th- George Wuerthner, Another Yellowstone Bison Slaughter, The Wildlife News
December 14th - Law et al, Strategic Forest Reserves can protect biodiversity in the western United States and mitigate climate change, Communications Earth & Environment
December 15th - Mike Garrity, Big Victory for Grizzly Bears and Wild, Free-Roaming Elk in Montana, Counterpunch
December 8th- Todd Wilkinson, Meet a Conservation Group That Goes Where Most Fear To Tread, Mountain Journal
December 3rd - Stephen Capra, Democrats and the Wolf Slaughter, Counterpunch
December 2nd - Steve Kelly , More grizzlies in Northern Continental Divide die from car collisions, poaching, Missoula Current
November 29th - Steve Kelly , Sen. Tester’s Wilderness Act Doesn’t Go Far Enough, Counterpunch
November 7th - George Wuerthner, Infrastructure Bill Promotes Subsidized Logging, The Wildlife News
November 5th - Mike Garrity, The good, bad, and ugly of Tester's Blackfoot-Clearwater Stewardship Act, The Hill
November 3rd - Joseph Scalia, Can the Wolf Unite Us? Environmental Leadership in Polarized Times, Counterpunch
October 22nd - Phil Knight, What Will It Take to Wake Us Up?, Counterpunch
October 12th - George Wuerthner, The Industrial Forestry Paradigm is a Threat to the Forests of the Northern Rockies, Counterpunch
October 8th - Howie Wolke, Why We Need Big Holistic Wilderness, Counterpunch
September 22nd - Jim Furnish, Forest Service "Debacle" In Black Hills Must Not Be Repeated Elsewhere, Mountain Journal
September 22nd - Mike Garrity, Clearcutting Yellowstone, Counterpunch
September 11th - John Potter, Bozeman, Montana: Capital Of The New Unwild West?, Mountain Journal
August 18th - Phil Knight, Meditations on Loving the Land, Counterpunch
August 17th - Todd Wilkinson, Last Trek Of The Human Wolverine, Mountain Journal
August 16th - Joseph Scalia, Wildness Ought To Make Us All The Wiser, Mountain Journal
August 12th - George Wuerthner, Wild Bison Restoration, Rewilding Earth
August 11th - George Wuerthner, Good Fire / Bad Fire: a False Paradigm, Counterpunch
July 22nd - Stephen Capra, The federal government must step in to save America's wolves, The Hill
July 20th - Multiple Authors, In The Bull's Eye: A Human Swarm Is Overwhelming The Yellowstone Region, Mountain Journal
July 9th - George Wuerthner, Thinning Nuance, Counter Punch
June 27th - George Ochenski, Montana is melting thanks to fossil fuel-addicted politicians, Independent Record
Summer 2021 - Joseph Scalia, The Inherent Trauma of Conservation, Bozeman Outside
June 25th - George Wuerthner, It's Time We Change How We Talk About Wildfire, The Hill
June 23rd - USGS, Greater Yellowstone Area Expected to be Warmer and Drier, Science Daily
June 11th - Amanda Eggert, The Crazhy Mountains' Next Act, Montana Free Press
June 4th - Phil Knight, Montana: Worth Fighting For, Despite the State’s Current Political Mess, Counterpunch
June 2nd- Helena Dore, Timber project in north Bridgers to begin this week, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
May 25th- Todd Wilkinson, Eruption: How Human Development Is Degrading The American Serengeti, Counterpunch
May 25th- George Wuerthner, Nuance in Wildfire Policy is Badly Needed, Counterpunch
May 25th- George Wuerthner, Wildfire legislation misses the mark, Independent Record
May 21st- Laura Lundquist, Wildlife advocates ask Congress, Biden administration to up grizzly bear efforts, Missoula Current
May 14th- Mike Garrity, Big and Bad National Forest Clearcuts Continue, Counterpunch
May 14th- Dana Johnson, Wilderness and the Value of Doing Nothing, Counterpunch
May 11th- Ted Zukoski, Forest service is flunking Biden's science test, The Hill
April 23rd- Dorothy Bradley, We can all step up for one last call of the wild, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
April 15th- Damion Carrington, Just 3% of world’s ecosystems remain intact, study suggests, The Guardian
April 7th- Beverly Law & William, Moomaw, Curb climate change the easy way: Don't cut down big trees, Phys.org
April 7th - Todd Wilkinson & Tom Sadler, What Toll On Wildness When Humans Want It All?, Mountain Journal
April 4th - Cathy Whitlock, Montana's WSAs must be part of climate-smart conservation, Missoulian
April 1st - George Wuerthner, Antidote For Rural Sprawl–Land Use Zoning, The Wildlife News
March 31st - Todd Wilkinson, Wildlife's Most Ferocious Predator: Human Sprawl, Mountain Journal
April 2021 - Christopher Ketcham, The Business of Scenery, Harper's Magazine
From the Board
Joseph Scalia III, It’s Not too Late to Protect the Wild Gallatins, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Joseph Scalia III, The Passing of the Wild Gallatins, Missoulian
Joseph Scalia III, Return to Leopold: Dare We Speak Up for Yellowstone?, Counterpunch
Joseph Scalia III, Yellowstone Imperiled by Compromise, Counterpunch
Joseph Scalia III, Conserving Politics or Conserving Nature?, Counter Punch
Joseph Scalia III, An Ethical Imperative: the Visionary “Impossible” in the Northern Rockies, Counter Punch
Joseph Scalia III, We Need Wilderness With No Apologies and No Regrets, Mountain Journal
Joseph Scalia III, Wilderness without Compromise in the Gallatin Range, Wilderness Podcast, Greater Yellowstone Miniseries
Joseph Scalia III, Guest Opinion: We have time to shape future of the Gallatin Range, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Joseph Scalia III & George Wuerthner, Save the Wild Gallatins!, Wilderness Podcast
George Wuerthner, East Paradise Grazing Plan Seeks to Expand Livestock Production, The Wildlife News
George Wuerthner, NREPA Could Help Achieve 30 by 30 Goal, Independent Record
George Wuerthner, Protecting the Northern Yellowstone Ecosystem, The Wildlife News
George Wuerthner, How Livestock Impact Ecosystems, The Wildlife News
George Wuerthner, Historical Lessons of Successful Conservation Movements, Counterpunch
George Wuerthner, Indigenous Burning: Myth and Realities, The Wildlife News
George Wuerthner, Historical Lessons of Successful Conservation Movements, The Wildlife News
George Wuerthner, Shilling for the Livestock Industry in Greater Yellowstone, Counterpunch
George Wuerthner, Lessons From The Effort To Designate The Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness, The Wildlife News
George Wuerthner, Trouble in Paradise Valley, Counterpunch
George Wuerthner, Custer Gallatin Forest Plan Limits Wilderness For Gallatin Range, The Wildlife News
George Wuerthner, Wilderness and Cows, The Wildlife News
George Wuerthner, Fire Scar Historical Reconstructions: Accurate or Flawed?, Counterpunch
George Wuerthner, Forest Restoration or Forest Degradation, The Wildlife News
George Wuerthner, Public Lands Logging & Forest Carbon, Greatest Good, Enviro Show
George Wuerthner, Greatest Good is to Preserve Forest Carbon, Counter Punch
George Wuerthner, Logging Project Won’t Reduce Chances of Large Fire, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
George Wuerthner, Lionhead Proposed Wilderness, The Wildlife News
George Wuerthner, ‘Temporary’ Roads Cause More Than Temporary Damage, The Spokesman-Review
George Wuerthner, Open Letter to the Gallatin Forest Partnership Supporters, Wildlife News
George Wuerthner, A Conversation with George Wuerthner, Wilderness Podcast
George Wuerthner, Preserve the Sacred Lands of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Wildlife News
George Wuerthner, Gallatin Range Deserves Wilderness Protection: An Ecologist's Op Ed, Mountain Journal
George Wuerthner, History of Efforts to Protect Montana’s Gallatin Range, Wildlife News
George Wuerthner, Guest Opinion: Protect Wildlife in Montana's Gallatin Range, Billings Gazette
George Wuerthner, Gold Standard for the Gallatins, Outside Bozeman Online
George Wuerthner, Fire/Logging Myths, The Wildlife News
Phil Knight, Yellowstone: Paradise Lost?, Counterpunch
Phil Knight, Pondering Megafauna From Here To Africa And Back, Mountain Journal
Phil Knight, Our Public Lands Need to be Protected, Not Plundered, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Phil Knight, Wilderness and Recreation - An Uneasy Partnership, GYWA Blog
Phil Knight, New Wilderness Alliance Brings Forth Bold Proposal, Bozeman Magazine
Phil Knight, Going Viral, Counter Punch
Phil Knight, Bozeman's Big Backyard, The Gallatin Range, Outside Bozeman
Anne Millbrooke, This Land is Your Land, New York Times
Anne Millbrooke, Wilderness Designation Needed For Gallatin Range, Yellowstone Ecosystem, Bozone
Anne Millbrooke, Just Say No to eBikes on Public Lands, Counterpunch
Anne Millbrooke, Protect NEPA and Our Public Lands, Bitterroot Star
Clint Nagel, COVID-19 and other diseases, Man’s insatiable appetite to screw with Nature: A Commentary, Bozone
Clint Nagel, Guest Opinion: Custer Gallatin National Forest Needs New Alliance, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Past Articles
Lee Davidson, Trump Administration Backs Two Bills Affecting Trails in Wilderness, Salt Lake Tribune
Mike Bader, The Last, Best Chance to Save the Northern Rockies, Counterpunch
Alex Sakariassen, Public Lands: Promises and Peril, Montana Free Press
Lee Davidson, Trump Administration Backs Two Bills Affecting Trails in Wilderness, Salt Lake Tribune
Maggie Caldwell, 9th Circuit Upholds Protections for Wild Lands in Bitterroot National Forest, Earth Justice
Ryan Stuart, Study: Mountain Bikes Disturb Wildlife on Par With ATVs, Bike Mag
Michael Ferrentino, Why Wilderness Matters More Than Your Desire To Take It, Mountain Journal
Mike Bader, Industrial Recreation is Not Conservation, Counterpunch
George Monbiot, How Did Wildlife Groups Start Collaborating in the Destruction of Nature?, The Guardian
Laura Lundquist, Lawsuit Says Flathead NF Plan Doesn’t Protect Threatened Species, Missoula Current
Todd Wilkinson, The Question That None Of Greater Yellowstone's Conservation Groups Are Willing To Confront, Mountain Journal
Mike Garrity, Battling “The Empire” of Gang Green Collaborators, Timber Industry, and Trump’s FS in the North Cascades, Counterpunch
Hank Rate, Why A District Ranger Became Disgruntled With The US Forest Service, Mountain Journal
Dorothy Bradley, Paying Forward A Wild Mountain: Perspective Of A Seasoned Montana Leader, Mountain Journal
Orville Bach, Why The Gallatin Mountains Need Permanent Protection, Especially Now, Mountain Journal
Admin, Mountain Biker Stable After Big Sky Grizzly Bear Attack, Explore Big Sky
Todd Wilkinson, Did You Hear About The Griz That Wandered Down Bear Canyon?, Mountain Journal
Todd Wilkinson, Griz Expert Says 'Mountain Bikes Are A Grave Threat To Bears, Mountain Journal
Todd Wilkinson, 'Unbroken Wilderness:' Big Sky And The Human Appetite For Consuming Wildness, Mountain Journal
Todd Wilkinson, 'Unbroken Wilderness:' Some Call The Porcupine And Buffalo Horn 'Holy Land', Mountain Journal
Todd Wilkinson, ‘Unbroken Wilderness:’ The Quest To Save The Wild Gallatins, Mountain Journal
Todd Wilkinson, One of America's Biggest Wildlife Conservation Issues You Need To Know About, Mountain Journal
Todd Wilkinson, The New West: Momentous Debate over Gallatin Wilderness, Explore Big Sky
Trump Administration Manipulated Wildfire Science to Promote Logging, High Country News
Opinions Vary on Wilderness in the Gallatin Range, Post Register
Howie Wolke, A Wild Plan For the Gallatin Range, Wilderness Watch Blog
Poll: Montanans’ Support Continues on Public Lands, Wilderness, Outdoor Recreation, Missoula Current
David Mattson, Traveling Fast & Silent: Mountain Biking With Grizzly Bears, Grizzly Times
David Mattson, The Gallatin Forest Partnership and the Tyranny of Ego, Grizzly Times
Louisa Wilcox, Wild Thoughts About the Wild Gallatins, Grizzly Times
Keith McCafferty, The Great Gutkowski, Field & Stream
Books
Protecting Yellowstone, Michael J. Yoshim
Where Roads Will Never Reach, Frederick Harold Swanson
A Wilderness Original: The Life of Bob Marshall James M Glover
The Big Outside Dave Foreman & Howie Wolke
Granting Bodies
KD Swan - Gallatin Petrified Forest - ©USFS 1926