The Real Yellowstone: Framing the Future (Signed Hardcover Book)

The Real Yellowstone: Framing the Future – Companion Book

By Tom Opre

🔥 The West isn’t just wild—it’s wounded.

In The Real Yellowstone: Framing the Future, award-winning filmmaker and wildlife conservationist Tom Opre takes readers on a gripping visual journey into America’s last wild places—where the battle to preserve land, culture, and community rages on.

This stunning companion to the groundbreaking documentary film goes beyond the screen, offering never-before-seen photography, behind-the-scenes stories, and deep insights from multigenerational ranching families, tribal elders, and rural Americans fighting for their land and way of life.

🦬 Inside this book:

• The untold truth behind rewilding policies and their human toll
• Raw testimony from the front lines of rural stewardship and wildlife coexistence
• A richly documented record of sacrifice, grit, and resilience
• Powerful imagery by conservation photographer Tony Bynum

This is not the Yellowstone of Hollywood fantasy.

It’s the real thing: fire, hope, hunger, and heritage.

“Living off the land isn’t a lifestyle. It’s a birthright. And it’s under threat.”

Whether you’re a conservationist, rancher, hunter, or advocate for rural communities, this book will challenge what you think you know about the American West—and why saving wildlife sometimes starts with saving people.