Follow the Wildflower Rainbow!

by Allison De Jong Spring and summer is prime wildflower time! How well do you know Montana’s wildflowers? Test your skills with this rainbow assortment—and then go out and see how many you can find. We’d love to see your photos, too; share them by tagging...

Sandhill Spring

by Claire Voris I cannot see the cranes this morning, but I can hear them. They are somewhere in the basin of the valley where the yellow, cow-cropped grasses end and the thicket around the water begins. The Sandhills arrived the night before as a wild flurry of...

Who’s Been Walking Here?

Winter is a great time to practice your tracking skills. How well do you know your Montana wildlife? Brush up on your knowledge here, and then take an amble in the snow for a real-life test! Coyote Canis latrans Tracks have four toes, with inside toes a little larger....

Winter Scavenger Hunt

The next time you go on a wintry exploration, take along this list and see what you can find! { } birds fluffed up against the cold { } frost patterns on a window or windshield { } the longest icicle you can find { } wildlife scat of any kind { } snowshoe hare tracks...

Weight of a Billion Years: Exploring the Beartooths’ Rocky Heart

By Sarah Capdeville The stone slab had dried from the afternoon’s rain and pressed roughly against my palms and bare feet. I peered up the steep face of the boulder I was attempting to summit and hesitated, my toes curled into a subtle ledge of rock. Wind rushed...