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Stakeholders Weigh in on Granite Moccasin Logging Project

Proponents say the Flathead National Forest's proposal would reduce wildland fire risk and improve forest health in a critical infrastructure corridor along the Middle Fork Flathead River. Meanwhile, conservation organizations are pressing for more environmental review in a 67,536-acre project area that includes a Wild and Scenic-designated river and roadless lands.

Twice as Tasty

Sourdough Bagels

A series of rest times, smooth shaping and a boiling soda bath before baking result in dense, chewy sourdough bagels

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Changing Montana’s Drunk Driving Culture, One Coffee Card at a Time

Behind lawmakers’ efforts to curb drunk driving in a state with the highest rates in the nation is a nonprofit that started with a simple solution: handing out coffee cards to those who choose not to drive home drunk. The impact has been wider than the Montana Bar Fairies’ founders imagined.  

Books

Written in the Land

Sally Thompson’s ‘Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World’ grew from her work on the Clark Fork Superfund case. But the book itself reaches back to the first encounter between the Salish and Jesuit missionaries, where radically different ways of understanding land collided — with consequences that continue to unfold.