“Exploratory mine drilling in Emigrant Gulch is absolutely not appropriate.”
-Senator Jon Tester, Livingston Enterprise
Some places are too special to mine. The current proposal to dig for gold in Paradise Valley, Montana, above the Yellowstone River and near the border of our first national park ...
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Improv workshop with Katie Goodman
The group of 25 men and women are applauding and laughing. It has been a pee-in-yer-pants kind of funny and insightful day at this retreat. “Improvisation For The Spirit” is a series of workshops and retreats (and for the first time ever in Montana, co-ed!) that use improvisational theatre games to ...
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Celebrate the Winter Solstice
Today is the start of #Winter in the astronomical calendar and is marked by the #WinterSolstice
Why do people descend on Stonehenge for the winter solstice?
As scores arrive at the prehistoric monument in Wiltshire to mark the shortest day of the year, we explain why the site is of such ...
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Wild bison remain endangered
From Stephany Seay
Buffalo are still absent in the Hebgen Basin. Patrols are conducting daily recons, searching through the buffalo’s migration corridors, but the gentle giants are keeping themselves out of Montana and, consequently, safe from the killers. Along Yellowstone’s north boundary, in the ...
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2016 Master Gardener Level 1 Course
Topics covered in the Level 1 Master Gardener Program include: an introduction to Montana State University Extension and the Master Gardener Program, soils and fertility, plant growth and development, flower and vegetable gardening, planting and maintaining trees and shrubs; an introduction to ...
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Considering alternatives to forest fires
From Tom Hastings
We have a small amount of our original forest left in the US, but we still have a great deal of woodlands. There is a school of forest managers who advocate so-called “controlled burns” to create a healthier forest. Such a poor idea. Has anyone mentioned global warming to those ...
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