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  • Other voices: the debate on wolf hunting from both sides

    Other voices: the debate on wolf hunting from both sides

    Perspectives on wolf hunting from conservationists and hunt proponents.

    by Staff, May 13, 2013
  • A review of Passage to Wonderland

    A review of Passage to Wonderland

    A history professor re-treads photographer Joseph Stimson's 1903 journey from Cody, Wyo., to Yellowstone.

    by Staff, Apr 29, 2013
  • Kids in the backcountry: The earlier, the better

    Kids in the backcountry: The earlier, the better

    A father understands what’s gained by taking his kids deep into the backcountry again and again as they’re growing up.

    by Alan Kesselheim, Mar 18, 2013

  • Revealed — secret changes to park rules

    The Park Service lands in hot water when Deputy Assistant Interior Secretary Paul Hoffman secretly rewrites the agency’s management manual, and the revision is leaked to the press

    by Brodie Farquhar, Sep 19, 2005
  • The way the West was can be seen again

    The way the West was can be seen again

    Watching sandhill cranes gather on the Platte River in Nebraska is like stepping into a time machine that takes you back to an unspoiled, wild West.

    by Pepper Trail, Apr 07, 2011

  • I say: Good riddance to bad billboards

    Wyoming’s billboards are ugly, and probably outdated, too

    by Bill Croke, Jun 13, 2005
  • Yes to wolves, but not so many

    Yes to wolves, but not so many

    Some Westerners support the return of wolves -- just not as many as environmentalists seem to want.

    by Denver Bryan, Jan 31, 2011

  • Leave only footprints, and turn the darn phone off

    Cell phones have their uses, but they do not belong in the wilderness

    by Becky Lomax, Oct 02, 2006

  • Whistling in the park

    Whistleblowing is not as romantic as Woodward’s "Deep Throat" makes it sound, but the retired public servants who make up the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees are doing valuable work, blowing the whistle for the sake of the national parks

    by John Mecklin, Dec 11, 2006

  • Two weeks in the West

    Cross-country skiers and snowmobilers clash over access to Logan Canyon, Utah; Mount Jefferson, Mont.; and (of course) Yellowstone; Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth steps down to be replaced by Gail Kimbell; West becomes player in national politics; bor

    by Jonathan Thompson, Feb 05, 2007
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