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It’s late July in Montana, which should be the perfect time to be casting a fly to rising trout on Montana’s once-famous blue ribbon streams. Only...
Montana, the fourth-largest and one of the least populated states in the Union, has been savagely ill-treated in the past and left with injuries that...
The plans for a U.S. Forest Service project happened after a December storm. This picture is from that public report, which was only being circulated...
Way back in 1995 Bob Brown, the Republican president of the Montana Senate, called me into his office. He had co-sponsored a bill with a pro-logging...
Exactly 50 years ago lauded University of Montana professor and historian K. Ross Toole published The Rape of the Great Plains — Northwest America,...
The most corrupt president and cabinet in U.S. history are now stealing fees from national parks and federal recreational lands and waters to fund...
Montanans are widely known for our individualism — and we hold fast to the tenet that everyone has the right to their own opinion and political...
This was a social media post presented by Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican U.S. House member, who bucked the GOP leadership on Earth Day...
The recent events on the national and world stage are pretty hard to ignore given the effects on Americans, our allies and even our fellow Montanans...
Forty-one years ago Gov. Ted Schwinden appointed me as chairman of his newly-formed Governor’s Drought Task Force. Montana’s legendary rivers were...
If you’ve been around long enough to remember any of the wars in the last 60 years, the latest “excursion” in Iran by a demented old president...
There’s not much ambiguity in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of...
Faced with a revolt among his MAGA faithful over his decision to join Israel in starting a war with Iran, our increasingly demented and delusional...
This week the Trump administration, with the most corrupt cabinet in the nation’s history, moved to gut the Endangered Species Act while the world...
This week’s news brings us another story that’s starting to get very old — especially for Montana’s existing residents. Namely, the City of...
Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel could barely get the words out of his mouth when he had to say: “I agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene.” It was his...
The incident was first reported by Craig Jones of Great Divide Outfitters, who was on the 3.8 mile stretch between the Jerry Creek and Greenwood...
The historical pattern is clear and documented worldwide. When dictators decide to take over a nation, the first thing they do is purge their...
A paean is “a fervent expression of joy or praise.” When it comes to the long and ongoing struggle to preserve the incredible legacy of...
About 30 years ago the industry-spawned strategy of “collaboration” entered the policy arena to influence and neuter the “conservation...
Discussions about “tipping points” have been getting plenty of coverage in the last few years as the planet hurtles forward in a climate crisis we...
It hasn’t been a good week for the guy who decided he was going to be a king and spent his first four months in office ignoring the law, declaring...
The average American would be shocked to know what’s in their water — as well as what passes through both fresh and wastewater treatment plants....
Every kid has heard “No means no!” when they want something their parents don’t think they should have. This week that phrase got a couple high...