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  • Should the Forest Service be blamed for a snowmobile wreck

    Judge Don Molloy finds the Forest Service partly liable in the 1996 Montana snowmobile wreck that injured Brian Musselman, and some snowmobilers are worried about the ruling’s impacts on their sport

  • Yellowstone snowmobilers suffer whiplash

    Judge Emmet Sullivan reinstates a Clinton-era ban on snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks

  • A cheer for runaway bison and the Rocky Mountain Front

    The Rocky Mountain Front in Montana is precious land, and it is under threat from the Bush administration’s predatory energy policy

  • Follow-up

    $11 million is set aside for a nuclear trigger factory that Carlsbad, N.M., is hoping to host; Yucca Mountain, Nev., gets $580 million for nuclear waste storage; no extra water for the Rio Grande silvery minnow; Pentagon wins exemptions to environmental l

  • Butte ponders the power of Evel

    Notorious daredevil Evel Knievel is the star of Butte, Montana’s "Evel Knievel Daze," but not everybody in his hometown looks up to him

  • Heard Around the West

    Mountain lion kittens in trouble; Despair, Inc.; escaping buffalo in Great Falls; high country nudes in Issaquah; and Boo Boo Blodgett wins the Rez Car Parade

  • Western patriots are rebelling against the Patriot Act

    Bozeman, Mont., is one of over 175 communities in the U.S. that have passed resolutions opposing the Patriot Act

  • Hell’s fires burn in the Northern Rockies

    A Montana pilot flies a fire spotter over the western part of the state in one of the worst fire seasons she’s ever known

  • A shock to the system

    Montana’s Flathead Valley shows how environmentalists can work together – even work with their opponents – to get things done in a climate hostile to conservation

  • Digging through the dust of Libby

    Journalist Andrea Peacock chronicles the tragic story of Libby, Mont., and its betrayal by the W.R. Grace Corp. in Libby, Montana: Asbestos and the Deadly Silence of an American Corporation

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