by Heather McKee WHOOSHoop. WHOOSHoop. WHOOSHoop. It can sound like distant thunder, the ocean, metal flexing, or a bass drum. It’s the first sound mammals hear—a mother’s heartbeat pushing through the placenta. From there, the heartbeat becomes a metronome for life....
by Rob Rich In the Lolo National Forest (LNF) just outside Missoula, Sarah Clark sloshes up Miller Creek, feeling for loose cobbles and deep pools with each step. She parts branches of red-osier dogwood as if swimming the breaststroke, taking care not to whip...
Frozen water can take some pretty incredible forms! Learn about a few of them here, and then go out and see if you can find any of these amazing formations yourself. Perhaps you’ll even find some fantastic formations that aren’t on this list. Happy icy investigations!...
by Alison James I love driving from Missoula to Helena or Great Falls or Bozeman, over the big passes of the Continental Divide and along some of our country’s most spectacular rivers. On the west side of the Divide, we pass green foothills, huge ponderosas and larch,...
Story and photos by Nick Littman On my living room wall, I have mounted a many-colored map. I stop to look at it often, not to see where I am going, but to remember where I am. The map does not show me much about topography, or where highways go, or how big Seattle is...
