Posts By: Tristan Scott

Zinke Calls for Changes to Glacier’s Reservation System

The U.S. congressman and former Interior Secretary attended a roundtable discussion in the Glacier gateway community of Columbia Falls, where he called for sweeping changes to a system set up to mitigate the park’s surging visitation

By Justin Franz, Montana Free Press

The Wild Women of the Wild Mile

As the Bigfork Whitewater Festival rises in popularity among whitewater kayakers, a new generation of female paddlers are proving themselves on the Wild Mile, empowering each other and promoting a whitewater community in Northwest Montana

By Maggie Dresser

Ending the Season with a Splash

Costumed skiers and snowboarders skipped across a pool of water at the bottom of Big Mountain at Whitefish Mountain Resort in competition for a cash prize as part of the resort’s closing weekend festivities

By Hunter D'Antuono

Terrain of Guidebooks

It’s part of my spring ritual to dream about the days to come when we see how much activity we can squeeze in once the ground thaw

By Maggie Doherty

Snickerdoodles

I’ve tried a few other alterations to this recipe, but only one lets these cookies retain their name: sourdough starter, which boosts the cookies’ tanginess

By Julie Laing

SB 458 Will Come With A Moral Cost

Introduced by Republican Sen. Carl Glimm, R-Kila, SB 458 is a 61-page-bill that creates an impossibly narrow and embarrassingly unscientific definition of “sex” in Montana law

By Jenn Gross and Susan Webber

The Wicked Problems of Our Time

When the 1957-1958 Asian flu swept the nation, Miles City native Dr. Maurice Hilleman, the undisputed 'father of vaccines,' sprang into action, quickly developing and producing a vaccine that saved the lives of 'hundreds of thousands' of U.S. citizens

By John McCaslin

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