Pixie Herbert lives in a yurt at 8,000 feet in Wyoming. Her essay reveals the magic of the wildness around her and the power ...

Pixie Herbert is a photographer, writer and conservationist living in Northwest Wyoming. Mountain Journal serves and informs ...

From snowplowing to trail clearing, local organizations take on growing share of public lands maintenance as feds cut back ...

Local wildlife filmmaker Casey Anderson placed a camera in a cave in 2015. He recovered it in 2025. Now he reflects on risk, restraint and what a decade's worth of cave footage revealed about Greater ...

Historically a federal day of service with free entry to national parks, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is no longer a free-access day. Oh, and neither is Juneteenth.

UM climate professor makes space for both in his college classroom, finds humor can be an effective teaching tool ...

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Yellowstone National Park officials are asking for public input to weigh plans to rebuild the park’s North Entrance Road, a critical year-round access route that was heavily damaged during historic ...

A yearling female from the Wapiti Pack in Yellowstone National Park glances into the lens in fall 2025. A new study of participants in nine states shows that political affiliation may align with your ...

The Flying D Ranch is a sprawling conservation-oriented ranch, photographed here in August of 2023. Now-retired cable television titan Ted Turner owns the property, which spans nearly 114,000 acres in ...

Two yearlings look up from playing on a fall 2024 day in Greater Yellowstone. The moose abuse case in southwest Wyoming is conjuring up a negative image of the state as it grapples with another animal ...

In 2025, Mountain Journal published articles on topics ranging from wildlife migration to chronic wasting disease. We dug into federal layoffs, grizzly bears, wolverines and wolves, and reported on ...