At Fort Keogh, Dr. Lance Vermeire Finds Certain Range Fires Spark New Growth It’s been a long, harsh winter with record breaking snow, and now it’s a wet, late spring with terrible flooding. What’s next? A dry, hot summer with...

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,...

By Laura Nowlin  Through the vast spaces of central Montana flows the Musselshell River, connecting the mountains to the breaks and Martinsdale to the Missouri River.  To the casual observer it looks like a lazy, quiet stream, and the land...

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 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...