What is it like to work just out of Yellowstone National Park? “It’s nice when we get quiet because we’re busy, and it’s nice when we get busy because we’re bored.” That’s how Dan Reger described working a seasonal service...
Montana Bred, Montana Fed Decades ago, Dexter and Karla Buck asked themselves the same questions that farmers and ranchers across Montana are asking themselves today: How do we take the products grown and raised here and add value to them...
Watch our preview of Montana Historical Society’s film archive! A ranch in Judith Basin during the 1930s, Crop Spraying in the 1950s, Firefighting in 1960s, Glacier Park in the 1970s, and much more! In recent years, the Montana Historical Society...
Spring Fever Hits Great Falls, People Hit the Trails It's spring in Montana, the season of "hurry up and wait." Whether we're prepping to plant, hunting for sheds, or cleaning up around the house, most of us are taking advantage...
Montana's newest food truck opens on the Hi-Line. Havre is the hub of an agricultural region that ships wheat, lentils, chickpeas, grains, and cattle across the country and around the world. These farmers and ranchers, and the businesses in Havre...
More than 40 Farms Digging in on Potentially Major Cash Crop After decades of hype and setbacks, industrial hemp is finally in the ground and growing in Montana -- with more than 500 acres grown in 2017 by 12...
Central Montana ranchers, meat processors, and even the mail man all pitch in to bring tasty, healthy lunch to local kids. By Laura Nowlin In this remote region of Montana, the tiny community of Winnett is bucking the trend that...
Some Montana trails see clear travel ahead It’s rare to find something that four out of five folks agree upon these days. But that is how many Montanans -- 81 percent of us -- recreate outside, whether we’re hunting, snowmobiling,...
Science can help with the dry times ahead Montanans might have spring floods on their mind right now, but we know what could be coming: a spring with little rain and then a hot, dry summer — in other words,...
Folks living in rural Montana know how to roll with the punches. They deal with changing weather, fluctuating commodity prices, predators and disease. All the while, they're producing the food that sustains us, bringing millions of dollars into our state, and stewarding...
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...
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...
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 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...
