Into the Woods with Scott Carrier
Scott Carrier covers the debate surrounding the Pacific Northwest Trail and speaks with Rick Bass for an episode of the The New Yorker Radio Hour, listen here.
Scott Carrier covers the debate surrounding the Pacific Northwest Trail and speaks with Rick Bass for an episode of the The New Yorker Radio Hour, listen here.
Author Rick Bass recently wrote an OP-Ed for the Los Angeles Times concerning the impact of the Pacific Northwest Trail on the Yaak Valley’s grizzly population, read it here.
Rick Bass, Yaak Valley Forest Council member and author, has written an article for Men’s Journal about author and naturalist Doug Peacock’s work to protect grizzly bears. Read it here.
Lt. Governor Mike Cooney met with Troy area residents last Friday at the Silver Spur as one of six communities chosen for a new initiative of the Main Street Montana Project. According to a release from the Governor Steve Bullock’s office, the new initiative is aimed at building economic opportunities in rural and tribal Montana…
“I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.” – John Steinbeck, “Travels With Charley”. Author John Steinbeck composed this line on October 14, 1960, in the midst of a beautiful fall…
KPAX-TV, the Missoula-based news station that serves much of Western Montana, recently covered the debate over the proposed route of the Pacific Northwest Trail.
This story is featured in Montana Outdoors March-April 2011 issue What are West Coast rainforest creatures doing in northwestern Montana? The phenomenon struck me while I was watching the 2010 Olympics on TV. The scenery around Vancouver, British Columbia, looked a lot like my family’s favorite camping spot at Bull Lake, south of Troy, Montana….
By Tracy McNew A proposed rerouting of the Pacific Northwest Trail (PNT) from the Yaak to the south through Libby and Troy has been in the works for a few years now, said Jeff Kish, Executive Director of the nonprofit Pacific Northwest Trail Association. “We aren’t opposed to the trail moving,” he said, “but we…
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 global warming. But first and foremost, he was a Missoula badass—the place shaped and nurtured him, and he, in turn, shaped and nurtured the place….
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 straight-line, high-use recreational hiking trail through the Pacific Northwest. It would resemble the moving walkway at an airport, only with a “zone of disturbance” a…
Diverse stakeholders band together to propose Whitefish Range forest plan, reflecting new trend of collaboration By Tristan Scott // Nov 27, 2013 // Flathead Beacon Bob Brown, a former secretary of state and longtime Whitefish legislator, pulled into the snow-caked parking lot outside Ed and Mully’s Restaurant at the base of Big Mountain, his car…
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 political arena, the debate over forest management is constantly reduced to a black-and-white, either-or proposition: Either we sacrifice our forests and quality of life…
By Moira Blazi Soon, the Pacific Northwest Trail (PNT) may bring hikers to the local area. Much like the well known Pacific Crest Trail which stretches from the Mexican border to the Canadian border, the PNT stretches 1,200 miles from Washington’s Olympic Coast to Glacier National Park in Montana. The PNT was designated as a…
By SAM WILSON | Daily Inter Lake A collaborative group representing stakeholders in and around the Kootenai National Forest announced an agreement last week that will guide its input on proposed land management projects. The Kootenai Forest Stakeholders Coalition includes representatives from environmental, industry and recreation groups that often are at odds on forest policy….
The Vital Ground Foundation has received a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Forest Service to protect 142 acres of forested land in the northwest corner of Montana near Troy. The property, which contains one-third mile of shoreline and is the only private holding on Alvord Lake, was purchased by a developer in 2002 and public…
Lincoln County continues to have a stubbornly high jobless rate, hurting families and our entire community. One thing seems clear: We have to work together as a community to find ways to get work done and get people to work. Refighting old battles will not move us forward. From Troy to Deer Lodge to Choteau…