Posts By: Tristan Scott

Mason Jar Gifts: Mixed-Bean Soup

I set out to see if I could pack one of my favorite bean soup recipes into a jar, along with dried ingredients to give its full flavor in a tidy package easy to gift and use

By Julie Laing

Uphill Sanctuary

Already prone to ascetic solitude, my hermitic propensities grew compulsive. I never encountered a crowd I hadn’t already calibrated how to avoid, and I never entered a room without first plotting my exit

By Tristan Scott

Governor Short-Changes Public Access Promise

Gianforte’s budget proposal, released in mid-November, proposes to permanently cut voter-approved revenue that is used to protect wildlife and improve hunting, fishing, camping, and hiking

By Dan Vermillion

Regs Don’t Wipe Out Wolves

Unfortunately, the increasingly lax regulations adopted by Montana and Idaho, as well as those which always existed in Wyoming, means my ideal of ethical hunting will be further tarnished by gratuitous slaughter

By Rob Breeding

Guarding Little Switzerland

It was forty-odd years ago that this county’s voters approved the first-ever comprehensive plan to guide growth and development in the Flathead Valley and its surrounding ecosystem

By John McCaslin

Banff Returns to the Big Screen

After hosting virtual presentations in 2020 and 2021, the iconic mountain film fest returns with a live tour, including a Dec. 6-7 stop at FVCC’s new Wachholz College Center

By

John Dutton’s Montana

The "Yellowstone" effect is transforming Kalispell from a sleepy cowtown into a Botox-saturated bastion for the bourgeouis

By Tammi Fisher

Vanilla Bean Cookies

It all starts when I pull out an age-worn recipe card with brief penciled instructions in my grandmother’s cursive. It’s simply titled 'Vanilla Bean Cookies'

By Julie Laing

Stay Connected with the Daily Roundup.

Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of the Beacon delivered every day to your inbox.