Text and photos by Allison De Jong It was a sunny, gorgeous Sunday in late July. My husband, two friends and I had scattered ourselves across the broad alpine meadow of Goat Flat in the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness, noses to the ground, peering at the myriad tiny...
by Gil Gale From a safe vantage point above Johnson Creek in the Anaconda-Pintler Range, late on an afternoon in August 2000, “Dugger” Hughes looked across a half-mile of solid green timber to the leading edge of the Mussigbrod Fire that was relentlessly growling its...
by Charles Miller Spring is here, and with this season comes a fascinating panorama of activity between insects and flowers. The colorful flowerbeds and fields of wildflowers present an irresistible space that actually reflects the beauty of the insects themselves....
Text and watercolors by Stacia Martineau In exploring our beautiful, river-crossed state, one can’t help but come across water flowing—and with flowing water come waterfalls. A waterfall is, simply, a body of water falling over a steep precipice or incline at least...
By Leah Grunzke It’s midsummer, and the morning sun rises on a western Montana grassland. White-tailed deer saunter past stalks of late-season wildflowers, tawny and perse. A coyote skirts clumps of arrowleaf balsamroot, long ago set to seed. A mischief of deer mice...
