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  • 'Redneck liberal' defends a hard-to-love landscape

    Tim Faber, a carpenter, ranch hand and ‘redneck liberal,’ devotes himself to preserving the wild landscapes of Montana’s Missouri River Breaks

    by Ron Selden, Feb 07, 2005

  • Fighting for the Rocky Mountain Front: Montana rancher Karl Rappold

    Montana rancher Karl Rappold is determined to save his beloved Rocky Mountain Front from development by the oil and gas industry

    by Ron Selden, Jun 21, 2004

  • Journalism's dirty little secret

    by Ron Selden, Nov 24, 2003

  • Battle brews over a wilderness mother lode

    Activists are fighting a copper and silver mine planned for underneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in Montana.

    by Matt Jenkins and Ron Selden, Feb 18, 2002

  • Montana guts a green law

    Montana greens are worried that recent legislative changes to the state's 1971 Montana Environmental Policy Act will make the law almost impossible to enforce.

    by Ron Selden, Sep 24, 2001

  • An activist to the end

    Friends and admirers mourn the sudden, mysterious death by drowning of lesbian activist and environmentalist Tary Mocabee of Montana's Mission Valley.

    by Ron Selden, Jul 02, 2001

  • Republicans undermine a bedrock environmental law

    Gayla Benefield of Libby, Mont., is among many fighting to keep the Montana Environmental Policy Act intact in the face of Republican attempts to weaken the far-reaching and powerful law.

    by Ron Selden, Mar 26, 2001

  • What's best for a crumbling treasure?

    Many Glacier and other historic hotels in Glacier National Park need major restoration, but some fear proposed legislation undermines concessionaire reforms only recently approved by Congress.

    by Ron Selden, Sep 11, 2000

  • A test case on access

    Jack and Stephanie McFarland sue when Glacier National Park officials deny them a special permit to snowmobile into their park inholding.

    by Ron Selden, Feb 28, 2000

  • One proposal nearly runs aground

    Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is pushing for a new and expanded National Conservation Area along the banks of the Missouri River Breaks, a wild and scenic river corridor.

    by Ron Selden, Nov 22, 1999

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