Mountain Journal: Our Beat is America's Wildest Ecosystem
WEB3 days ago — Restoring Wildlife Connectivity Across the High Divide. Throughout the High Divide, century-old fencing is coming down to improve migration corridors for pronghorn, elk and other wildlife. Mountain Journal features articles on Yellowstone, Grand Teton and the American West covering wildlife, ecosystems, art, and American western lands public ...
Mountain Journal Articles | Yellowstone & American West
WEBAugust 8, 2024 // NEWS: In Short. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pushed its decision timeline to January 2025. States want an update by the end of October. Mountain Journal public-interest articles on public land issues in the American west including the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
About Mountain Journal | Yellowstone & American West
WEBMountain Journal is headquartered in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the wildest region in the Lower 48 states and a nexus for understanding the interrelationships between people and nature in the American West. Greater Yellowstone, as a region, is considered a global icon, destination, and bellwether for thinking about the persistence of ...
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WEBAug 14, 2017 — On behalf of the board of Mountain Journal, we want to welcome you.Mountain Journal will explore a confluence as expressed through the converging influences of Greater Yellowstone’s landscape and natural environment, politics, lifeways and art. Wildlife diversity and the abundance of large, free-roaming native species are what sets Greater Yellowstone apart, making it a bellwether not merely ...
How Do We Prevent Wild Greater Yellowstone from Unraveling?
WEBNov 29, 2022 — A backpack tax would apply to all outdoor clothing and gear, the same way that hunters and anglers currently pay a small excise tax on guns, ammo and fishing gear, generating huge sums that protect wildlife habitat and help fund federal and state game agencies. Photo courtesy Jacob W. Frank/ YNP.
In The Bull's Eye: A Human Swarm Is Overwhelming The Yellowstone Region
WEBJul 20, 2021 — The Yellowstone region was hit hard by Covid-19 and associated lockdowns. The national parks closed their gates and experienced little visitation for several months. In Teton County, Wyoming, sales tax revenues—an indicator of the level of visitation—plummeted 23 percent from the previous spring. Even Jackson Hole’s notoriously expensive ...
The Heartbeat of Wild Places - Mountain Journal
WEBFeb 4, 2024 — Wolves, bears, coyotes, ravens, eagles, jays, magpies, wolverines, smaller weasels, and many others all benefit from the kills lions make. Even plants grow thicker and lusher from the nitrogen released back into the soil from a decomposing animal. The heartbeat of the wild pulsates within this economy of reciprocity.
Yellowstone: What Comes Next After The Covid Crush?
WEBJan 18, 2021 — Due toworld-wide Covid restrictions international visitation to Yellowstone in 2020 was nil while a novel home grown demographic, urban Americans new to the natural world and to national parks, surged into Yellowstone. Visits in August increased by 7.5 percent over near record numbers in August 2019, by …
Mountain Journal Articles | Yellowstone & American West
WEBNov 6, 2023 — In Part 3 of our interview series with the past four superintendents of Yellowstone, Suzanne Lewis, the first and thus far only woman to lead America's first national park, talks fishing, bison, snowmobiles, and the visitation capacity Yellowstone has (or doesn’t have) down the road.
The Fall Line: Journalism Exists To Debunk Myths - Mountain Journal
WEBDec 28, 2022 — In the American West, mythology and stereotypes are still perpetuated through spaghetti western films and mock shootouts such as this one in Old Tombstone in southeast Arizona. Journalism must follow certain tenets, and exists to debunk myth. Creative Commons photo. EDITOR’S NOTE: The …