This special edition of PERC Reports brings together researchers, practitioners, and policy experts—and even some “Yellowstone” cast members—to better understand the issues of the Rocky Mountain West.
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‘Oh, I’ll Keep ‘em Out’
This special edition of PERC Reports uses the hit television show “ Yellowstone’s” portrayals of the Rocky Mountain West to examine real-world western issues. Explore the full issue here. In Season 3 of “Yellowstone” (Episode 6), a squabble hashed out at a barbed wire fence has the air of childhood spats over siblings crossing […]
Our Land, Our River?
This special edition of PERC Reports uses the hit television show “ Yellowstone’s” portrayals of the Rocky Mountain West to examine real-world western issues. Explore the full issue here. In the series premiere of “Yellowstone,” bankers and land developers sit in a dimly lit conference room above downtown Bozeman, discussing their plans for a […]
Whose River Runs Through It?
This special edition of PERC Reports uses the hit television show “ Yellowstone’s” portrayals of the Rocky Mountain West to examine real-world western issues. Explore the full issue here. Beth Dutton, daughter of Yellowstone Dutton Ranch patriarch John Dutton, skids to a stop on a bridge over an unnamed river on her family’s land […]
‘Yellowstone’ and the Endangered Species Act
This special edition of PERC Reports uses the hit television show “ Yellowstone’s” portrayals of the Rocky Mountain West to examine real-world western issues. Explore the full issue here. Near the end of “Yellowstone” Season 1 (Episode 7), John Dutton catches a busload of tourists trespassing on his property to photograph a grizzly bear. […]
Securing a Future for Wolves in the West
This special edition of PERC Reports uses the hit television show “ Yellowstone’s” portrayals of the Rocky Mountain West to examine real-world western issues. Explore the full issue here. “That’s $1,800 I can’t stand to lose,” rancher Randy Paulson tells Steve Hendon, a livestock agent for the Montana Livestock Association, during Season 2 of […]
Bootleggers and Baptists in ‘Yellowstone’
This special edition of PERC Reports uses the hit television show “ Yellowstone’s” portrayals of the Rocky Mountain West to examine real-world western issues. Explore the full issue here. “Yellowstone” is a gripping drama that has won a large audience by telling stories that stay true to human nature. Precisely for that reason, the […]
Dispossessed
This special edition of PERC Reports uses the hit television show “ Yellowstone’s” portrayals of the Rocky Mountain West to examine real-world western issues. Explore the full issue here. Monica Long, a character ostensibly of Crow or Blackfoot descent, is offered an associate professorship by the president of Montana State University in “Yellowstone’s” Season […]
The ‘Yellowstone’ We Know
This special edition of PERC Reports uses the hit television show “ Yellowstone’s” portrayals of the Rocky Mountain West to examine real-world western issues. Explore the full issue here. People are watching “Yellowstone.” Lots of people. The Season 4 premiere of the blockbuster television series drew nearly 15 million viewers in one night. It […]
Giving Greater Yellowstone’s Elk More Room to Roam
This special edition of PERC Reports uses the hit television show “ Yellowstone’s” portrayals of the Rocky Mountain West to examine real-world western issues. Explore the full issue here. Montana’s Paradise Valley is known to many as the home of rancher John Dutton in the hit television series “Yellowstone.” But for those of us […]