Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
This article originally appeared as a guest editorial in the Jackson Hole News and Guide on Ocotober 28, 2009. It's impossible to drive over Togwotee Pass or hike in the wilds of the Gros Ventres or Absarokas these days without...continued→
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
(Left to right: Wally Macfarlane, Yours Truly, Liz Davy, and Willie Kern) They flew in from all over the world: Switzerland, Finland, Greece, Italy, Austria, Slovakia, and Canada, as well as many parts of the U.S. Like the beetles...continued→
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The victory celebration piece I started last week on the relisting of the Yellowstone grizzly bear — a centerpiece of my work over the last 20 years — looks nothing like what you read now. After 2 ½ years of...continued→
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The beetle attack of whitebark pine I saw near Yellowstone National Park in Tom Miner Basin last week was worse than it was when I was here a year ago. Even just two years ago, you would find a...continued→
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
A shortened version of this opinion piece was published in the Billings Gazette on November 30th, 2008 This year has been a blood bath for Yellowstone grizzly bears. A total of 49 grizzlies are known to have died, breaching the...continued→
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Last Saturday, I was the guest story teller at the Yaak wilderness festival, an eclectic annual gathering of woodsworkers, back-to-the-landers, local artists, writers, musicians, and conservationists committed to protecting an incredible stretch of wild country that is the Cabinet Yaak...continued→
