Can a Groundwater Recharge Program Save Teton Valley's Farmers?

April 8, 2024 // NEWS: Dispatch

by Tom Hallberg

The aquifer in Idaho's Teton Valley has been diminishing for years. One local group is hoping to change its trajectory.

In Teton Valley, Idaho, where water is as precious as its native trout, irrigators and environmental groups have teamed up to recharge the area’s diminishing aquifer. In the process, they want to do something novel: find someone to pay farmers for the effort.

Looking Past The Cliches of 'Western Art'

June 18, 2023

by Todd Wilkinson

In her new award-winning book 'Montana Modernists,' Michele Corriel declares that artists from the West are so much more than frontier portrayals of cowboys and Indians

We Outdoor Recreationists—All Of Us— Are Displacing Wildlife

January 31, 2022

by April Craighead

The crush of Covid visitation has created a new reality

Scientist April Craighead shares what the Craighead Institute has found so far in its examination of user impacts on wildlife near Bozeman, attitudes toward animals and each other

Forest Service "Debacle" In Black Hills Must Not Be Repeated Elsewhere

September 22, 2021 // Forest Service, Logging

by Jim Furnish

What thinning the forest to save it looks like in South Dakota

Former second in command of US Forest Service questions agency's accelerated push to thin forests and log big trees in response to fire, insects and climate change. Felling forests, Jim Furnish says, is not a strategy to save them

How A Mega-Mine And A 'Law Without A Brain' Were Defeated On Yellowstone's Back Door

August 26, 2021 // Activism, Mining, Yellowstone

by Todd Wilkinson

Henderson Mountain would have been sacrificed to mega gold mining

A quarter century after a controversial gold mine was stopped thanks to presidential intervention, one of the green Davids who battled a powerful Canadian giant reflects on the longshot victory

Waiting For Elk To Disappear From 'The Last Hundred Acres'

February 23, 2021

by Rob Sisson

The imperiled southwest corner of Montana's Gallatin Valley

Greater Yellowstone resident Rob Sisson pens an essay about his sorrow in watching a wapiti migration route vanish on the outskirts of Bozeman, Montana

An Influential Voice In US Flyfishing Decries 'Rivergeddon 2020'

October 20, 2020

by Kirk Deeter

Sure, covid has caused a crush of anglers to descend on trout waters but Kirk Deeter says too much, even when it generates commerce, isn't good for nature or the experiences we treasure