HONORING THE PAST THROUGH VIBRANT COLOR Gallerists are typically adept at singing the praises of the artists they represent — it is, after all, their job. But rarely do they make such abundant use of superlatives as two recent curators did while discussing artist Echo Ukrainetz’s...
AT LONE MOUNTAIN RANCH IN BIG SKY, MONTANA, A RESTAURANT SERVES HISTORY ON EVERY PLATE TRUE CONFESSION: I'M A SUCKER FOR DUDE RANCHES. Maybe it stems from the first experience I had back at the Flagg Ranch in Wyoming when I was a kid. Cowboys with chaps...
The Revitalization of Montana’s Monument Peak Lookout Tower THE SEATTLE-BASED OUTDOOR OUTFITTER and apparel company Filson worked alongside the U.S. Forest Service and National Forest Foundation to restore Montana’s historic Monument Peak Lookout. Located southwest of Monarch in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest and built by...
SEPTEMBER IS A MONTH of transition here on Central Montana’s high plains, often beginning with temperatures that near triple digits and ending with a cold front that reminds us of winter yet to come. This particular year, the first storm of the season had arrived...
IN A ROOM ON THE LOWER LEVEL OF THE Livingston-Park County Library in Montana, a group of more than 15 people listen to Marco Restani talk about ospreys. He starts by discussing how, after World War II and up through the early 1970s, osprey populations...
MY ABIDING LOVE OF THE MISSOURI BREAKS was earned through sustained hardship, a little like how stubborn streptococci earn resistance through repeated exposure to antibiotics. [caption id="attachment_14751" align="alignright" width="300"] A short-horned lizard warms itself in the sun.[/caption] I arrived in the Breaks later than some, sooner than...
AT LAKE McDONALD, IN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK IN JULY 2018, my moment came late in the day, after the trailhead parking lots had emptied, after the swimmers had docked their giant pink dragon floatie, after the families had retreated to campgrounds to roast marshmallows, after...
BIG SKY COUNTRY IS ALSO BIG BEAR COUNTRY. Most estimates suggest that Montana has between 13,000 and 17,000 black bears (Ursus americanus) and roughly 800 grizzly bears (Ursus arctos ssp.). Most of the grizzlies in the contiguous U.S. live in and around Glacier and Yellowstone...
IN CLASSIC FASHION FOR a college student in upstate New York, Sam Hoffmann first started brewing beer in his dorm room. But it was a childhood spent traveling around the rural byways of Europe that sparked his interest in beer, cider, local foods, vineyards, and...
More than $1,023,000 worth of art was sold when the gavel dropped on the last art piece during the 38th annual Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale—bringing an end to another successful series of events. The Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale benefits the Cody Country...