All posts tagged "the new west"
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The New West: Reigniting Heated Lessons
What did Yellowstone fires of 1988 really teach us? Thirty years ago, following spring warmup, a storm pattern rolled into the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, leading many to believe the rest of summer would be “normal.” Some 18...
- Posted May 9, 2018
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THE NEW WEST: Lost Communication
Write a letter from here, create an ancient artifact Fanned out across the floor before me now are colored Yellowstone postcards created by F. Jay and Jack Ellis Haynes. They hold handwritten notes composed decades ago by...
- Posted March 14, 2018
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THE NEW WEST: Explosive Resilience
Yellowstone’s geysers are a miracle of survival but humanity hasn’t made it easy One of the greatest rustic hotels in the world, a stadium-sized parking lot and, more recently, a multimillion-dollar visitor center were all built on...
- Posted March 7, 2018
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THE NEW WEST: Catching up with Chatham
Iconic Paradise Valley painter still acts on early convictions, but with a timelier perspective In Jackson Hole, the Tetons have served as the irrefutable, unmistakable muse for generations of visual artists. Northward, on the other side of the Greater...
- Posted March 5, 2018
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Whispers on the Open Road: ’Liberal media’ as elusive as Bigfoot in rural West
By the nature of what I am fortunate to do, moving peripatetically as an old school dinosaur journalist from story to story, I spend a lot of time traversing Wyoming, Montana and other rural corners of the...
- Posted February 15, 2018
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Ripe for the Picking: Newcomb speech gets at Jackson Hole conundrum
For me as a semi-libertarian (I believe in individual freedom so long as it doesn’t harm anyone else or destroy the valuable things we hold in common as a society), it’s fascinating when listening to fellow human...
- Posted January 24, 2018
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Development Downfalls: Growth is bringing both huge ecological, economic costs to Greater Yellowstone
The slow and steady landscape-level effects of climate change in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem are being documented by scientists measuring snowpack, average temperatures, drying of forests and wetlands. Equally significant impacts are bearing down on some corners...
- Posted January 17, 2018
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Travels in The Greater Yellowstone: Jack Turner’s power of insightful observation
“Some artists so completely capture the essence of a place and make it their own that to imagine the place or hold it in the mind’s eye of memory is to see it distilled through their art....
- Posted January 10, 2018
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Peregrine Falcon Tags: Why don’t we hunt bald eagles for the sport of it?
In case you’re wondering where the thinking of some Westerners is — note, I am using the adjective some here — you need look no further than social media. This week, a few citizens from the great...
- Posted November 15, 2017
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Real Wyoming Natives: For 10,000 years, Sheepeaters knew how to live with nature
Earlier this year, tantalizing new research based on mastodon bones was reported, which suggested that humans might have been in North America far longer than we’ve been long lead to believe — 130,000 years rather than the...
- Posted November 1, 2017