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Grizzly 399 was a bear for the ages

By Kristin Combs Wendy Keefover

She was 28 years old and dealt with aplomb the hordes of picture-taking tourists and repeated motherhood. When she was…

Bear 399 with cubs Thomas Mangelsen:Images of Nature Gallery

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Acidic mine drainage haunts Western rivers

By Dave Marston

It was the summer of 2015 when the Animas River in southern Colorado turned such a garish orange-gold that it…

Reid Christopher in font of textile bags, mining ruins in background, Gladstone Treatment Plant, San Miguel County, CO. Dave Marston photojpg

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How to learn where we live

By Dorothy Bradley

I was driving on Montana’s Highway 89 just as fall began showing up at one of my favorite spots for…

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Wyoming shoots itself in the foot

By Jonathan Thompson

This summer, the Biden administration offered Wyoming $35 million to help the state plug and clean up abandoned oil and…

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We need mountain lions to do their job as predators

By Dan Ashe

I am a former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and have hunted practically as long as I…

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Glen Canyon Dam faces deadpool

By Zak Podmore

In 1998, when I was in fourth grade, I joined a class field trip to Mesa Verde National Park in…

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How a controversial poison saved Utah Lake

By Ted Williams

Ninety-five-thousand-acre Utah Lake is a major water source for the Great Salt Lake. If it dries up or sickens, so…

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Volunteers power the Colorado Trail

By Dave Marston

The Colorado Trail, an iconic 567-mile high-elevation trail that crosses the Rockies, owes its existence largely to Gudy Gaskill, a…

Below The Three Apostles, Colorado Trail Jeff Miller and Dave Marston, Matt Smith Photo

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40 years of living with wolves

By Ben Long

Biologist Diane K. Boyd has had a front-row seat to 40 years of wolf recovery in the West, but her…

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Hikers in a wilderness turn into firefighters

By Zeke Lloyd

More frequent wildfires in the West can turn hiking through beautiful, high-elevation country into a dangerous game for hikers. In…

Abandoned Ranch buildings above a meadow of Deer Creek south of Anacanda, Montana. Picture taken in late July.

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Go all-electric—and help change the world

By Auden Schendler

The company I work for recently built a new ticket office at the base of Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colorado….

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Grumpy talk on the trail

By Marjorie “Slim” Woodruff

I suppose it’s the human thing on a hiking trail to acknowledge one another when passing. But on a well-used…

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