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 surpassed 100,000 acres, closing in about...

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...

Inside the Lolo Peak Fire Incident Command Post Right now, much of Montana is crawling out of the ashes from a brutal fire season. The mountains are blanketed by sweet, beautiful snow. The dust is starting to settle. And folks...

The stories of a strong ranching community in Eastern Montana Photographs and Writing by: August L. Schield Just above the 47th parallel, directly east of the Musselshell River, the wide open prairie landscape of Garfield County has only received two...

The Lodgepole Complex Fire is the state’s largest fire to date. As of Monday, July 31, it had spread to 270,723 acres. Fortunately, the fires are now over 93 percent contained. Unfortunately, the fight to recover is far from over....