Braiding Sweet Grass and Sheep Creek
What hockey sticks and the Sheep Creek mine have in common
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Montana issues that affect us all: land, water, natural resources, extreme concentration of wealth that closes us out from our public land and hurts our communities.
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A River Runs Dry
Rowing across rivers and lakes brought to mind Norman Maclean’s story A River Runs Through it: “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.”
August 20, a third time
1910, 1988 and 2026
Hollywood and Montana mergers
Paramount’s attempt to buy Warner is now set for trial in March of 2027.
Both Ends of the Rope
Frank Little and the Irish in Butte, America
Steve Doherty, passing the baton
Out in Circle hunting, and in the hearing room when it mattered
The landscape gives us what money can't buy.
Theodore Roosevelt came to the West to find something that money can’t buy.
Sunlight as a Structural Guarantee: What Montana knew in 1972 that will help us now
In the American West, government transparency isn’t just good ethics.
Seeley Lake Secession
Stop Fighting Over Scraps: The Real Villain in Montana’s Tax Crisis
Our Health Is Subordinate to Corporate Profits
Corporations don’t want to tell us who is selling, or where they sell, poop in our food.
The Bison Wars of 2026 echo 1876
American Prairie is a Bozeman-based conservation nonprofit that has spent more than two decades assembling roughly 500,000+ acres of deeded and leased land in north-central Montana, with the goal of …
Because the Night got too hot
The End of the Montana Window Routine
Corporate coffins filled with elected officials?
Ten states elect their utility regulators. The other forty have them appointed, almost all by the governor. Montana is one of the ten.