Our Top 5 Stories of 2017 As another year wraps up, we at Prairie Populist are looking back at 2017. Thanks so much to our readers for all of your support and feedback throughout this year. We tip our hats...

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...

We Get By With a Little Help From Our Friends It’s been a rough fire season for Montana. We’ve had more than 1,500 fires. And depending on the source, they’ve burned somewhere between 937 and 1,380 square miles. Basically, we’re...