by Stephanie Parker A cold wind fights against the warmth of the sun on this early-fall day of fishing. Not too far outside of Philipsburg – it’s apparently a secret location, but maybe you know it – the creek winds through the tall grasses. It is easy to...
Enjoy this guest post about an unusual ice phenomenon from naturalist Larry Youmans, who lives in the Flathead Valley: I had the camera trained on a perfect 40-foot circle of ice. This was my second disc sighting, same place, and same disc size. I looked down on the...
by Tom McKean A cold sweat chills me from under my backpack straps. The rhythm of my ascent up the clean white mountain side hypnotizes me. Slide-clack slide-clack. My skis cut a new climbing track up the wind-drifted slope. I climb up along a sub-ridge with a friend,...
by Tom McKean Being involved at the Montana Natural History Center has given me the unique opportunity to interact with a variety of people from across Montana. From preschool teachers to university professors, and from field scientists to young aspiring naturalists,...
Observations & photos submitted by naturalist Kim Birck, late July 2014. Yesterday a butterfly I’d never seen before visited my yard. It had the colors of a swallowtail, but no tails, and it didn’t match anything I could find by doing a Google image search for...
