Outdoors

Recreation

Connecting the Flathead’s Trails

Flathead Area Mountain Bikers is partnering with several organizations and stakeholders to bring new trail networks to the valley while maintaining existing trails

Out of Bounds

Stocking Birds Solves Nothing

The FWP rationale is that these stocked pheasants will be easier for newbies, and that will mean better recruitment and retention in the ranks of hunters. That’s a load of hooey. The real rationale is that stocked birds are easy. Habitat and access protection are not.

Artist

Our Big Sky

Reflections on Montana's most precious resource

Out of Bounds

Frozen Bird Solution

Hunting is richly fulfilling, both for the nutritious, ecologically sustainable protein, as well as the soul-cleansing excuse it offers for wandering about in bird country

Out of Bounds

Living in Wild Places

Critters aren’t concerned with our gangster garb. They just need space to live. We’ll save space for wildlife or lose it.

Wildlife

Call of the Loon

In Glacier National Park, volunteer citizen scientists help park biologists better understand loon breeding and population numbers while also creating advocates for the bird

Out of Bounds

Closer is Better

Someday I may make it to New Zealand or Chile or wherever it is permitted to catch a fish on a fly, but I can be on that close-to-home water, watching a bass crush a popper at dusk, seven days a week

Out of Bounds

Tangled Web of Wire

Cleaning up our abandoned fencing seems the least we can do as stewards of the land