Comments on: The Changing Face of Bogd Khan Mountain https://westernconfluence.org/the-changing-face-of-bogd-khan-mountain/ Natural Resource Science and Management in the West Sat, 08 Mar 2025 16:24:33 +0000 hourly 1 By: John Koprowski https://westernconfluence.org/the-changing-face-of-bogd-khan-mountain/#comment-188802 Sat, 08 Mar 2025 16:24:33 +0000 https://westernconfluence.org/?p=4707#comment-188802 Writing transported me to one of my favorite places in the world…thanks colleagues and great friends for your commitment to conservation and collaboration amongst the challenges so well introduced here. Until we meet again on Bogdkhan!

]]> By: Tad McCall https://westernconfluence.org/the-changing-face-of-bogd-khan-mountain/#comment-185753 Thu, 06 Feb 2025 22:14:19 +0000 https://westernconfluence.org/?p=4707#comment-185753 This is a sensitive and beautifully written and photographed story of lives lived in harmony with nature in ways our society seldom achieves. The lives and practices whisper to us that we should be better stewards. The possible fate of the nomadic life being overtaken by modern society and the harmony destroyed is evident. However, through education , the herder’s daughter may be able to help meld modernization to the the culture and its inhabitants in a way that is not destructive of the habitat and its inhabitants, whether walking on four legs or two. Through the university, learning may come that preserves the culture of nuture and respect for what nature has given and cannot give for the the present and future generations who live holistically with their surroundings.

Hope and risk in parallel. Does this snapshot from Mongolia reflect on the challenges found in the more developed, but many quite natural spaces of Wyoming, and even for all of us who live in places that have not heeded the balance, beauty, and limits of nature?

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