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I Stayed in a Fire Lookout Tower and So Can You

Weaving around a gravel Forest Service Road, I began to wonder if I would ever reach my destination. I was high above sea level, working my way up one of the thousands of peaks that  make up the Rocky Mountains of Montana, excited to see the swanky digs that I would be enjoying for the …

Pushing the Limits- Running the Rut Race in Big Sky, Montana

I was nine miles in on a 17.8 mile race, struggling to breath. Climbing up the flank of Lone Peak, 11,000 feet above my home at sea level, I began to question my sanity. Here I was, 500 miles from the comforts of my own bed and my own mountains, racing against time and my …

Watch the West (And the rest of America) Burn via Map

“The west, the west, the west is on fire. We don’t have no water, so our precious forests burn. “ Whether we like them or not, fires are a natural phenomenon, vital to the health of the forests and even our grasslands. Over the last ten to twenty thousand years, forest fires have consumed nearly every inch …

Yellowstone Wolf Poached Outside National Park

Wildlife Officials in the State of Montana are reporting that two wolves have been poached in the greater Yellowstone Region in the last three weeks. The latest wolf to be shot and left to rot was found about a mile from the National Park boundary, along the Old Yellowstone Trail near Gardiner, Montana. The wolf …

By the Numbers: The Lack of Snowpack in the West

Anyone living out west knows that this year has been usually warm, easily seen by glancing at any of our normally snowcapped peaks. While we know that this year’s El Nino has been tough, what is most shocking is that it is one of the worst snowfall years in history. The snowpack for the 6 …