Insect Orders in Montana ( Read more... )

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I just finished reading Rick Bass' new book The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana. This book is an ode to phenology and local knowledge, and Bass' love of his home, the Yaak of northwest Montana, which some consider to be a "Noah's Ark of Diversity," with mountain lions, moose, elk, bobcats, grizzly and black bears, lynx and wolverines. ( Read more... )

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Changing attitudes stymie elk managers ( Read more... )

I went to the Hill a couple of days ago, to share the first beautiful day of spring with it in friendship. I took a few photos of some of the landmarks that mark the rim of the valley--


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Part of the McKinley, Montana collaborative fiction project.

Sorenson Ranch, 1873


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bi·o·re·gion·al·ism (bī'ō-rē'jə-nə-lĭz'əm) n. The belief that social organization and environmental policies should be based on the bioregion rather than on a region determined by political or economic boundaries. bioregionalist (bi'o·re'gion·al·ist) n ( Read more... )

Looking around for new Montana folks to connect to, who seem to be of similar subversive and ancient (same thing really) mind about nature and such here. Maybe not bioregional animists, but people who love Montana for what it is, and aren't just promoting it as real estate. I'll be reading these blogs and seeing what they have to say ( Read more... )