Crops: More Than Your Local Farmer’s Income With a lot of the state waking up to frost, snow, or temps below 30 degrees, drought and fire season seems like a thing of the past. But it’s possible we haven’t felt...
Drought and high temperatures may be here to stay Farmers and ranchers have always dealt with uncertainty. Whether it is global price changes, or something too close to home, like fires and drought, no one can predict what’s coming around...
Local breweries are popping up across our state -- from Havre to Hamilton, from Libby to Lavina, from Sidney to Sheridan. These breweries are offering a high-quality, made-in-Montana product. They're providing a comfortable space to relax after work or to...
Rather than leaving their heritage in the dust, they’re dusting it off “We’ve got some stuff going on.” That’s how J.P. Gallagher described his recent projects as Butte-Silver Bow’s Park and Recreation director, but with more colorful language. After I...
These days, you can easily drive from Billings to Glendive without stopping. At 80 miles per hour, the plains are a blur. But should you choose to slow down, you may be struck by the nuance of the country before...
Cascade County ranked in nation’s top ten mid-sized counties Normally, we Montanans don’t pay much attention to what people out East have to say about us. But our ears perked up when we heard that a Pittsburgh economic consulting firm...
Words and Photos by Niall Clancy My home state of Montana is well known for its mountain vistas and rolling hills. The reputation of places like Glacier Park and the Upper Missouri Breaks is spread far and wide. I have...
Just west of downtown Miles City, where the Tongue River and the Yellowstone meet, is the WaterWorks Art Museum. Built in 1910, this brick building was the original water treatment plant for Miles City. But the tides have since turned,...
Will everyone come to the table to smooth things over? The recreation economy in Montana is booming and with White Sulphur Springs less than 50 miles away from the Smith River, one of the most pristine rivers in the country,...
Photographs and writing by August Schield On September 4, a strong easterly wind event helped the Rice Ridge Fire, just east of Montana’s Seeley-Swan Valley, consume 48,000 acres of timber in a single run. Nearly doubling in size, the fire...
Lawmaker questions whether violence against nurses is really a problem after hearing directly from nurses The recent violent arrest of a nurse in a Salt Lake City hospital, caught on police video, reminded the world what a dangerous job it...
Ruby Valley Produced Upset Winner; Bets Taken Now on Bolt D’Oro Before tractors, hydraulic combines, dirt bikes, and trucks, we Montanans relied on horses for every aspect of life: combining wheat in the fall, tilling the land in the...
These days, you can easily drive from Billings to Glendive without stopping. At 80 miles per hour, the plains are a blur. But should you choose to slow down, you may be struck by the nuance of the country before...
The stories of a strong ranching community in Eastern Montana after the Lodgepole Fires Photographs and Writing by August Schield Just above the 47th parallel, directly east of the Musselshell River, the wide open prairie landscape of Garfield County has...
The Value of Agriculture: Welcome to the Ruby Valley Story and Photos by August Schield In Montana, people are bound together by a common landscape. It is the single most underlying substance that all life shares. Air and animals. People...
Hard Work, Ambition, and Community I’ve lived in Montana my entire life, and the first thing from Montana I ever heard mentioned on TV was Butte. It was mispronounced (as “Butt, Montana”), but it still was on television. I was...
Photographs and writing by August Schield On September 4, a strong easterly wind event helped the Rice Ridge Fire, just east of Montana’s Seeley-Swan Valley, consume 48,000 acres of timber in a single run. Nearly doubling in size, the fire...
RANCHERS : THE LOCAL CONSERVATIONISTS Story and Photos by August Schield Ranchers are the local conservationists in the Ruby Valley. Here, conservation isn’t only a part of the culture, but also a part of the community. Meet Rick Sandru and...
