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...

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...

The harsh reality of this year's hunting season in Eastern Montana Eastern Montana hunters don’t have the luxury of vast national forests covering the landscape. We rely on private landowners and smaller tracts of public land for our opportunities. In...

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...

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