By ALEX PHILP and LOREN ROSE Feb 12, 2013 The national forests are a battleground where Montanans wage a war of jobs versus the environment. Or so we’re told. In …
The Land That Time Forgot
What are West Coast rainforest creatures doing in northwestern Montana? By Ben Long. Photos by David Herasimtschuk This story is featured in Montana Outdoors March-April 2011 issue TThe phenomenon struck …
After the Timber Wars
Diverse stakeholders band together to propose Whitefish Range forest plan, reflecting new trend of collaboration By Tristan Scott // Nov 27, 2013 Sunrise along the North Fork of the Flathead …
Collaboration is now they key to our forests
August 16, 2013 at 9:08 am | Robin King Lincoln County continues to have a stubbornly high jobless rate, hurting families and our entire community. One thing seems clear: We …
Group gets $400,000 grant for Troy lake
July 19, 2014 at 7:00 pm | The Daily Inter Lake The Vital Ground Foundation has received a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Forest Service to protect 142 acres of …
Kootenai National Forest group reaches accord
December 17, 2015 at 4:02 pm | By SAM WILSON Daily Inter Lake A collaborative group representing stakeholders in and around the Kootenai National Forest announced an agreement last week …
What the most endangered grizzlies in the Lower 48 don’t need: A national hiking trail through their territory
I have made it a point to oppose the arch-conservatives, anarchists and extremists who rail unreservedly against the federal government in the West. I don’t think national monuments, for example, …
The Pacific Northwest Trail is blazing an unauthorized route through the Yaak—grizzlies be damned. Rick Bass says there’s a better way, and he needs Missoula’s help.
He was a Montanan, via Chicago, born into the heart of the Depression. He was a tundra explorer, a crusader for polar bears long before anyone dreamed the nightmare of …
Rick Bass, Activist and Storyteller
in Fall 2016, Feature Stories | Written by CARTER G. WALKER IN THE BACK OF A SMALLISH, BEAT-UP CAR, Rick Bass has a bike, a wrinkled white shirt to wear to …
Why thru-hiking would be a disaster for the Yaak Valley
Suppose that nearly 50 years ago, a man in a faraway city, who knew nothing of the blank spots on a map, thought it would be nice to bulldoze a …