The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will fund four Montana organizations with nearly $10 million toward advancing environmental cleanups. The EPA Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund grant program will award $3.9 million to the Snowy Mountain Development Corporation in Lewistown; $2.65 million to the Great Falls...
Positioned in the northeast corner of the 1.2-million-acre Flathead Reservation, Flathead Lake has hundreds of homesites and other structures along its shorelines and tucked within its dense forests. With its current population density and anticipated growth, the Rocky Point/White Swan area north of Polson, Montana...
Since its inception in 2015, the Montana Wilderness School (MWS) — under the direction of co-founders Gar Duke and Josh Olsen — has helped form and foster meaningful, impactful experiences in the outdoors and an intimate connection to the natural world for youth throughout Montana...
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) is working in partnership with a broad coalition of organizations to advance the North American Grasslands Conservation Act, introduced in the U.S. Senate this July by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR). This legislation would authorize the investment of $290 million annually...
This July, Brooks Lake Lodge & Spa celebrated its centennial. Tucked into the Shoshone National Forest — proximate to Jackson Hole as well as Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks — the 25-acre, all-inclusive luxury lodge was once just a convenient stopover for 1920s travelers...
For me, the shifting leaves of fall are a regular reminder of change. In the latest days of summer, I scour tree branches for signs that Jack Frost is on his way, a vestige of youthful anticipation for the coming snow. Nature’s canvas, the forest...
Ducks Unlimited (DU), the largest nonprofit dedicated to conserving North America’s waterfowl habitats, recently released its Season in Review report examining habitat conditions, weather, and regional waterfowl abundance trends from the 2021–22 season. This year, the report includes an in-depth look at the 2021 drought and...
Perma, Montana doesn’t have a Wikipedia page. That’s how tiny and insignificant the world-at-large considers this spot on the Flathead River, 30-some miles as the raven — or in this case, the magpie — flies, south of Niarada, population 27, also just as unknown to...
Who owns the land? Is it the person who can afford to buy it and enjoy mountain vistas from the windows of their mansion, the person who devotes their life to working the land and pulling sustenance from its bounty, or the person who feels...
Somewhere far, far out On the Montana plains Left in the attic Of an old stone farmhouse Hangs a broken-necked fiddle With mouse-gnawed soundboard And missing strings. I hear it most nights. The scored dirt floor below Is rutted, the windows gone There’s less and less For the walls to be concerned about To say nothing of...