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It’s time 23,000 elk got off the dole

Wyoming needs to stop feeding elk in winter in order to stop the spread of chronic wasting disease.

by Bruce Smith, Feb 17, 2012
Protecting wildlife corridors remains more theory than practice

There's a growing understanding of the scientific importance of wildlife migration corridors, but protecting them is a huge political challenge.

by Mary Ellen Hannibal, Dec 30, 2011
Stitching habitat together across public and private lands

Migrating animals can't read "no trespassing" signs, so it’s up to human beings to try to find ways to connect wildlife corridors that crisscross public and privately owned lands.

by Cally Carswell, Dec 26, 2011
What is that dead deer thinking about, and why is he hanging there?

A close encounter with a deer head on the wall of an inn leads to musings on death, immortality, ancient Egypt, Lenin and Trigger the Wonder Horse.

by Andy Seiple, Dec 23, 2011
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, Feb 01, 2011
A dark and disjointed journey

The short stories in Sam Shepard's new collection, Day out of Days, have an unhinged, distinctly Western flavor.

by Traci J. Macnamara, Feb 15, 2010
The squeal of silence

Time spent alone in a cabin in the wild reminds a writer that silence is more than the absence of noise.

by Charles Goodrich, Feb 12, 2010
Confessions of an off-road outlaw

A hunter who once tore through the woods on his ORV rethinks his ways after he realizes that he’s scaring off wildlife

by Garrett VeneKlasen, Nov 06, 2009
Feeding time

Will Rounds, who was once a very squeamish vegetarian, describes hacking apart the body of an elk to feed wolves at Mission:Wolf.

by Will Rounds, Apr 28, 2008
Canis fiasco

A chaotic effort to restore Mexican wolves in New Mexico and a problem with too many elk in Colorado are two facets of the same problem: Our propensity to manage nature in very unnatural ways.

by Jonathan Thompson, Dec 24, 2007