Tinworks Art’s new place-based multimedia art exhibition, Invisible Prairie, offers a unique opportunity to connect to the poetry, fragility, and mystery of America’s grasslands. The exhibit explores the sensory experience of the prairie, providing an intimate and thoughtful experience that encourages meditation, contemplation, and close...
Paramount Network’s popular Yellowstone series has sparked the interest of a worldwide audience, bringing an estimated 2.1 million visitors and $730 million in spending to Montana in 2021, according to a University of Montana (UM) study. Conducted by UM’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER)...
A new audio tour of the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway (also known as Wyoming Highway 296) near Cody, Wyoming is now available via the TravelStorys app. The approximately 45-mile tour includes 11 separate GPS-triggered scripts — or geotags — describing geology, wildlife habitat, fire ecology,...
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs “2022 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report,” since 2001 the rate of suicide among veterans has remained nearly double that of civilians, with an average of 6,000 veterans taking their lives each year. Despite the VA’s changes...
Gallatin Valley Land Trust (GVLT) is best known for Bozeman’s Main Street to the Mountains trail system, but the definition of “trail” is expanding: With partners, GVLT recently launched the area’s first water trail, the Missouri River Headwaters Paddlers’ Trail. The trailhead (or “put-in,” as...
I write this coming off a weekend spent in Jackson, Wyoming, having driven through Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming to get there. The fir and spruce forests extending from Big Sky to Island Park open up into rolling cropland near Ashton, which meets the expansive Grand...
A new audio tour of the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway (also known as Wyoming Highway 296) near Cody, Wyoming is now available via the TravelStorys app. The approximately 45-mile tour includes 11 separate GPS-triggered scripts — or geotags — describing geology, wildlife habitat, fire ecology,...
I put down my walnut pipe and inky zinfandel, rose from our blazing sage campfire, and scanned the horizon for emerging bats. As the western sky melted into a psychedelic watercolor of pink, purple, and orange, last light washed over the highest limestone towers above...
The air is cool and a breeze pushes from the north, the depth of blue clouds pierces my attention between flashes of light. Moisture lingers heavy and refreshing as the storm drags across bare mountain peaks just beyond our reach. One can almost hear the grass calling for rain, a song carried quietly...
This summer, my daughter discovered our horses. Not quite 2 yet, she toddles toward the pasture adjacent to our house, eagerly proclaiming, “Neigh!” the moment she catches sight of them. She asks to sit on their backs, and, once mounted, she energetically gestures directions as...