An essay on returning home to the West, after years abroad.
Items by Scott Mcmillion
Judge Emmet Sullivan reinstates a Clinton-era ban on
snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks
At Ted Turner's Montana ranch, biologists are trying to
train wolves to stay away from cattle by using shock collars that
jolt the animals when they get too close to a cow or
calf.
The Environmental Protection Agency says snowmobiles
should be banned in Yellowstone, at least until cleaner machines
are built, but the Park Service is seeking a less controversial
alternative.
Developer Jim Sievers wants to build an exclusive
wilderness playground on the inholding he owns in the middle of
Montana's Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness.
The internal debate over the Church Universal and
Triumphant's recent changes is reflected in cyberspace, where Web
sites air opinions pro and con.
Highlights from the Church Universal and Triumphant's
proposal to allow bison to roam free on the Royal Teton
Ranch.
The Church Universal and Triumphant wants to work with the
state and federal government on the management of the bison that
stray from Yellowstone onto the church's Royal Teton
Ranch.
The theology of the Church Universal and Triumphant is a
smorgasbord of world religions that the new church leadership is
trying to repackage in a more accessible form.
Elizabeth Clare Prophet's most recent incarnation has led
her through four marriages, the founding of the Church Universal
and Triumphant and now a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease that
forces her to step down from the leadership of the sect.
In Montana, the Church Universal and Triumphant re-invents
itself as its charismatic founder, Elizabeth Clare Prophet,
retires, and new leadership offers part of the sect's Royal Teton
Ranch for conservation easements and federal land trades.
Montana is prepared to fight a new federal proposal that
would allow "low-risk" bison unlikely to spread brucellosis to
leave Yellowstone National Park without being killed.
Snowmobilers and the tourist industry object to the Park
Service's plan to close some Yellowstone trails to snowmobiling in
an effort to curb the winter wandering of park bison.
Life at 25 below in towns like Livingston, Mont., is made
bearable by things like poker, polar fleece and Portabello
mushrooms.
The history of bison in Yellowstone National Park is a
century of human manipulation of wildlife.
Environmentalists sue to stop Yellowstone park rangers
from slaughtering bison that stray beyond park
boundaries.
Montana's Clean Water Initiative arouses fierce industry
protest with its plan to keep long-lived hardrock mining wastes out
of the water.
Rutting elk go after human women in Yellowstone National
Park.
In Montana, Democratic incumbent Max Baucus forges ahead
of Republican challenger Dennis Rehberg in the race for the
Senate.
In Montana's race for the House, mud-slinging Republican
Rick Hill tackles a charismatic, Democratic Crow Indian, Bill
Yellowtail, whose checkered past includes wife-battering.
A survey in Montana shows that predators account for just
2.2 percent of all cattle losses in the state in 1995.
Three biologists stir controversy with a book that urges
Yellowstone Park managers to begin regulated feeding of grizzly
bears.
Environmental groups help raise money to reintroduce a
second batch of Canadian wolves to Idaho and to Yellowstone
National Park.
During elk rutting season, the little town of Mammoth Hot
Springs inside Yellowstone National Park becomes a wild "cauldron
of lust."
The return of wolves to Yellowstone will affect an entire
ecosystem.
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