16 Feb The Perfect Day of Fishing
A Fly Rod, a Camera, and a Dog...
15 Feb Refuge by the River
The Human Parade from my Fishing Camper...
15 Feb Icon of the Rockies
A tribute to the Cutthroat Trout...
15 Feb Artist of the West: Water, Paint, and Paper
The fly-fishing art of Jeffrey Craven...
15 Feb Western Design: Restoring Tranquility
A family turns a Madison Valley ranch into a sanctuary...
15 Feb Outside: Salmon River Steelhead
I grew up along the Pacific Northwest’s coastal salmon and steelhead streams where it was easy to spot the rookie anglers: These were people who proudly posed for photos with fish that had begun the inevitable freshwater deterioration process, indicated by their dull gray scales,...
15 Feb Local Knowledge: Conservation is a Circus Act
Rock Ringling and the Montana Land Reliance...
15 Feb Images of the West: Ghost Signs of Montana
In 1940’s Butte, a cabbie drops his fare before the Finlen Hotel’s Park Street entrance, looks up and spots a four-story-tall sign in red, white, and green, hawking Wrigley’s Spearmint gum. The image is of its package tilted rakishly, its spear angled skyward. The green...
14 Feb Dining Out: Innovation Meets Tradition at Bisl
Reimagining basic ingredients for delicious results...
14 Feb Back Forty
As a consequence of moving forward The river bottom stirred, unwound, then circled your ankles downstream. I had to wrap my fingers around either side of hawthorn to steady against spring run-off. Stoneflies broke into shaky flight. I laid orange peels beside their split, grey husks. Lost sight of you mending into a...