Mountain Journal: Our Beat is America's Wildest Ecosystem
4 days ago · Grizzly Bear 399 Struck, Killed by Vehicle South of Jackson. Updated October 23, 2024. A matriarch passes: 399, Queen of the Tetons. Known as the Matriarch of the Tetons, 399 was a 28-year-old who lived her life primarily in Grand Teton National Park and was arguably the most famous bear in the world. Read More.
Mountain Journal Articles | Yellowstone & American West
October 2, 2024 // OPINION: Op-ed. by Pete Bengeyfield. About 4,500 bison live in Yellowstone National Park. The National Park Service says it plans to manage for up 1,500 more but a former hydrologist writes in this op-ed that bison are already destroying park streams. Here’s what he says the Park Service should do.
CWD Detected in Ruby Mountains and Flathead Valley
3 days ago · According to a Nov. 1 FWP press release, a hunter harvested the CWD-infected elk adjacent to the lower Ruby Valley. This was the first detection of CWD in elk in this area, however there has been a high prevalence of white-tailed and mule deer infections. The agency continues to sample hunter-harvested animals in the region, and results ...
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Mountain 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 ...
Have Wolves Returned Yellowstone to its Natural State?
May 24, 2024 · In case you haven’t seen it, the story goes like this: Wolves were returned to Yellowstone in 1995, decreasing the number of elk and making sure the elk didn’t just hang out in stream bottoms depleting vegetation. The lack of grazing in riparian areas led to more aspen, more willow, more birds, more beavers, more songbirds, more reptiles ...
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Aug 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 ...
Mountain Journal Articles | Yellowstone & American West
Jul 6, 2023 · New Yorker Magazine Cartoonist Saul Steinberg Once Offered Manhattan's View Of The American West As A "Flyover". Now Mountain Journal, Thanks To The Work Of Illustrator Rick Peterson, Gets Even. Mountain Journal public-interest articles on public land issues in the American west including the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
My Yellowstone Mauling And Mountaintop Rescue: An Exclusive …
We sighted our first grizzlies at 6:04 a.m. on June 27, 1977. The day had begun with sunlight chasing a long shadow across an alpine lake far below. We were in the Gallatin River headwaters of northwest Yellowstone National Park, 9,900 feet above sea level. Sitting at the top of the world, my graduate student, Bruce, and I were high with ...
The Heartbeat of Wild Places - Mountain Journal
Feb 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.
Mountain Journal Articles | Yellowstone & American West
Nov 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 …