The least expensive path to teardrop heaven is to build your own, but this takes time and you have to know your way around the shop

Hucks, Flathead cherries and the arrival of improbable peaches so delightful they are treated like the return of Santa Claus seems wonderful enough

Setters, especially setters from hunting lines, tend toward inexplicable hardheadedness at times

At least on the Flathead, until maybe this year, the one thing you didn’t have to worry about was water temps

Increasingly, Earth, the only home we earthlings will ever know, is telling us the climate scientists have it right

This is just the most recent example of the bears reoccupying range where they historically lived, but haven’t for 100 years or more

I can’t control my obsession with videos of foolish tourists behaving badly

I’ve been paying for conservation licenses in about a half dozen states for years

I’m not surprised someone was selling trips to the Titanic, 12,500 feet below the ocean’s surface, but I find it baffling

I’ve recently been hit by depression that I suspect most face when a serious injury alters our life

I suppose it’s not a surprise that some of us chuckled a bit when smoke descended on the East Coast and Gotham residents responded as if the apocalypse was finally upon us

U.S. District Judge Scott Skavdahl injected a welcome dose of sanity into a conflict so far dominated by the lunacy of a handful of wealthy landowners

I’m fascinated by the megafauna wiped out during the warming that spread across Earth at the end of the last glacial period

That makes 22 little ones for this amazing 27-year-old bear

After college in Missoula, Mike La Salle moved to Europe. He owned a couple of bars in Brussels, including Montana Mike’s Feed and Fuel.