Feature photo of organic potatoes grown in the Gallatin Valley. Goals: Buy Local Food, Anchor Uptown Businesses By Renata Birkenbuel UPDATES: Butte Food Co-Op Community Interest Survey is available online: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/buttefoodcoop The newly formed organization's new website: https://buttefoodcoop.wordpress.com/ Since a...
Yet plants like prickly pear can be a friend By Lisa Schmidt The ewe had that look: Head sagging, ears lowered, a shuffling step. Her twin lambs hugged her side, leaving their jumping and cavorting for another day. One of...
Feature photo of Matt Heimbuck, 12, center, watching as Sterling Stott, 15, and Kyle Hass, 11 rake mud away from the foundation under the American Legion rodeo stands in Augusta, MT on June 6, 2019. Community bounces back after Mother...
Feature photo of Lindsey Wuelfing on her horse Kokamoe riding in the Ruby Valley. Photo by August Schield. Leopold Conservation Award applications due July 1, 2019 “I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a...
Feature Photo: Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation volunteers Ty Walters and Britt Robertson work together on the crosscut saw on June 1. Photo by Laura Lundquist. Bob Sims, 78, Holds His Own By Laura Lundquist Updated June 6, 2019 at 11am....
Memorial Day Services pay tribute in Big Sandy By Lisa Schmidt. Sometimes a person knows she is immersed in greatness, yet can’t tell you how she knows. Maybe it’s the look directly into her eyes from another’s -- eyes that...
June 28-30 Rodeo Still a Go, Barring More High Waters Feature photo by Tia Troy. Main Street Augusta Sunday night, May 26, 2019 (left). Main Street Augusta Wednesday afternoon, May 29, 2019 (right). Updates: Last updated June 3, 2019 at...
Katie Lund's three-year-old hanging out with the calves. Montana Women Take Advantage of Working From Home Remote work -- that is, working from a home office -- is growing more popular due to constant advances in technology and globalization. Skype...
Feature photo of the Beartooth Highway by Mackenzie Lisac. Custer Gallatin National Forest Plan: Comment by June 5 or forever hold your peace Custer Gallatin National Forest Land. Source: USDA The Custer Gallatin National Forest stretches from Camp Crook, South...
Featured Photo: Missouri River from Great Falls' River's Edge Trail. Sections of Central Montana are currently on a flood watch, but residents shouldn’t be too concerned -- yet. “There is no flooding concern at this time, we’re just watching carefully,”...
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...
There’s Many Fish in the Sea, But There’s Only One Big Spring Creek Lewistown, Montana has some of the most pristine water in the entire country. Big Spring Creek -- the main source of their water supply -- originates seven...
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...
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...
Feature photo courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management 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...
Written by Laura Nowlin. Feature photo by Reba Ahlgren I have read several stories recently that make life in rural America seem pretty dismal – the population is aging and decreasing, everyone is poorly educated and addicted to drugs, and the land is either not...
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...
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...
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