Each month on the cusp of the full moon, Mark Paulson and about two dozen other people attend a regularly scheduled business meeting in Kalispell, Montana. Then, they move to the parking lot, get out their telescopes, and look up. As the president of the...
The quest for supernatural revelations or visions in wilderness environments has been chronicled in a variety of cultural contexts. One of the oldest expressions of human spirituality, this religious tradition was embraced in North America, particularly among Central and Northern Plains peoples, and especially in...
As David Rohm prepared the camera to capture film footage for Golden Eagles: Witnesses to a Changing West, I gazed across the green-speckled red earth and into the wild blue yonder, contemplating the unique spiritual relationship that my tribe and other Plains Indian communities have...
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort is well known for deep snow and long, steep ski runs, but recently the summer season has rivaled the winter for big mountain adventures. The newly expanded via ferrata, offering guests an outstanding climbing experience with 15 different routes above 9,000...
Master Luthier Kevin Kopp came to us through the best journalist working in America, Richard “Dick” Manning. Manning, writing about music while learning to play the guitar, approaches it the way he approaches everything: with an inexhaustible curiosity and intelligence — two qualities often inextricably...
As a conservation filmmaker, I often travel to remote and unfamiliar places, but few have surprised and challenged me more than Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin. In 2021, I found myself there filming my first feature documentary, Golden Eagles: Witnesses to a Changing West, with conservation ecologist...
I’m watching claws and jaws. Snowflakes and fur are swirling through the scene, too, perfectly focused in my camera’s lens. The claws and jaws belong to a female grizzly bear. It’s snowing in late May. Two small puffs of fur, the sow’s twins, weave between...
Architecture JLF Architects Construction Big-D Signature Specialty Lumber Montana Reclaimed Lumber It’s hard to imagine a structure, no matter how elegantly designed, that can rival the staggering beauty and majesty of the Grand Tetons. When building a home near one of North America’s most iconic mountain ranges, it’s best to defer...
Construction Yellowstone Traditions Interior Design Story Street Studio In a historic district in Bozeman, Montana, a house that exudes century-old charm paired with tasteful updates makes a heartening statement: All things old can be made new again through the art of faith and the power of engineering. The Cooper Park...
Architecture E. Cobb Architects Construction Teton Heritage Builders Landscape Architecture Alchemie Emerging from an alpine slope at almost 8,600 feet in the Yellowstone Club in Big Sky, Montana, the home dubbed “Outcrop +8,567” is an architectural event. Named to reference its elevation on the mountain, this home’s blocks and planes of...