Wildlife Stories Cast in Snow by Deborah Richie Oberbillig Broadcast 1.1 and 1.5.2017 Listen: Skiing across fresh fallen snow through a Ponderosa forest, I pause at strange tracks with no apparent beginning or end, as if some animal had fallen from the sky....
Western Montana’s Winter Inversions Explained by Ondi Crino Broadcast 11.8.2016 Listen: Since my recent move to Missoula from the sunny state of Florida, I had experienced many unfamiliar weather conditions. Montana residents might be well accustomed to...
What’s Wrong with Whitefish? by Nate Bradley Broadcast 12.10 & 12.15.2017 Listen: I dipped my woven landing net into the frigid creek water and drew the fish towards my legs. It was winter and I was standing mid-calf deep in a favorite fishing spot...
Rough-legged Hawks by Pat Jamieson Broadcast 12.25.2016 Listen: As winter comes to the National Wildlife Refuges of the Mission Valley, we begin to see a whole different group of visitors. And I’m not just referring to the human kind. Strange as it may seem,...
Water-Loving Willows by Lena Viall Broadcast 10.11 and 10.16.2015 Listen: Amidst the rugged gumbo-ridge landscape of more easterly Montana, water is everything. With hotter summers than the western half of our state, and with drier winters, the Montana of my...