A Doctor Plumbs The Depths Of Ivan Doig's Illness And Asks: 'Did He Have An Epiphany?'

October 5, 2019

by Dr. Robert Patrick

Robert Patrick, a Doig fan and end-of-life-physician, writes of what he found in the famous author's journals

Terminal Diagnosis: How Montana Writer Ivan Doig Coped With His Own End

October 5, 2019

by Todd Wilkinson

Doig's spirit springs to life in the MSU Library Archives, revealing his literary triumphs, fears and what lay in his heart

Standby Snow: Chronicles of a Heatwave, Chapter One

September 6, 2019

by Michele Corriel

Mountain Time Arts takes on climate change by making it visceral, not abstract, for Greater Yellowstoneans

Stopping A Yellowstone Hetch-Hetchy: When Private Interests Nearly Put Parts Of America's First National Park Under Water

July 28, 2019

by John Taliaferro

Yellowstone Lake, site of a defeated dam

In this excerpt from John Taliaferro's new book on George Bird Grinnell, local efforts to exploit Yellowstone remind us again that past is prelude

How Lost Words Translate Into Lost Worlds

July 18, 2019

by Susan Marsh

It goes by the Snake but has other names

Place names matter, even when describing the ineffable and especially if monikers provide cover for cultural amnesia

The Wild West: How Do We Deal With Its Rapid Transformation?

June 19, 2019

by Jordan Payne

Mountain Journal intern Jordan Payne gets a crash course on the New West and titanic forces shaping its future

Gut-Check Time: Navigating The Ups And Downs Of Dramatic Change

May 15, 2019

by Todd Wilkinson

How can some western communities and wildlands save their essence during booms, how do others prevent themselves from blowing away? A gathering in Bozeman will address these poles of the 'New West'

Big Guns Want 230,000 Acres Of Gallatins Near Yellowstone Protected As Wilderness

May 14, 2019

by Todd Wilkinson

Founder of Patagonia joins former U.S. Interior Secretary and dozens of eminent scientists who say capital "W" essential to safeguarding wildlife in core of Greater Yellowstone

Reason For Optimism On Earth Day 2019?

April 22, 2019

by Brian Yablonski

Despite major environmental challenges, Brian Yablonski writes in this op-ed that there are many reasons to reject doom and gloom—and embrace hope

The War Veteran Who Had A Dream—In Which He Was Visited By A Midget

February 21, 2019 // Community, Community Change

by Timothy Tate

By courting the images that come to us during sleep and drawing upon their messages, our dreams within can help us achieve more meaningful, peaceful outer lives

Why More Heat Means The End Of The Predictable World As We Know It

February 13, 2019

by Lance Olsen

Warming is being hastened by feedback loops

By not confronting the causes of climate change, we're setting ourselves up for huge economic and ecological impacts. A comprehensive analysis by Lance Olsen on this and the Green New Deal

So Help Us God: When Faith Is Used As A Blunt Weapon

February 6, 2019

by Todd Wilkinson

With climate change, public land issues and other important matters before House Resources Committee, will lawmakers swear to God that they'll be seeking the truth?