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  • “Stick to the Facts”–How Green Groups Fail to Protect the Gallatin Range

    George Wuerthner

    The Buffalo Horn drainage is one of the most important wildlife habitats in the entire Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and deserves to be designated as wilderness under the 1964 Wilderness Act. Photo George Wuerthner  A recent guest commentary by a representative of Wild Montana in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle titled “Sticking to the Facts about Forest…

  • History of Efforts to Protect Montana’s Gallatin Range

    George Wuerthner

    The Gallatin Range south of Bozeman, Montana is one of the most critical wildlife areas in the northern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). Indeed, protecting the remaining roadless lands (approximately 230,000 acres) as wilderness is vital to maintaining the ecosystem integrity of the GYE. The Gallatin Range is home to one of the densest populations of…

  • Where have the porcupines gone?

    Ken Cole

    When I was younger I commonly saw porcupines in Idaho. I saw them on trees, I saw them on trails, I saw them on roads, they were common. But, I haven’t seen one since the mid nineties. Where did they go? They seem to have disappeared and nobody is really noticing. Are they declining due…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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