Items by Ron Selden

'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

Ron Selden Feb. 7, 2005 From the print edition

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

Ron Selden June 21, 2004 From the print edition

Journalism's dirty little secret

Ron Selden Nov. 24, 2003 From the print edition

Battle brews over a wilderness mother lode

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

Matt Jenkins and Ron Selden Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition

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.

Ron Selden Sept. 24, 2001 From the print edition

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.

Ron Selden July 2, 2001 From the print edition

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.

Ron Selden March 26, 2001 From the print edition

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.

Ron Selden Sept. 11, 2000 From the print edition

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.

Ron Selden Feb. 28, 2000 From the print edition

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.

Ron Selden Nov. 22, 1999 From the print edition

Tribes beat back oil giants

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes refuse to let the Yellowstone Pipe Line Co. run a petroleum pipeline across the Flathead Reservation in Montana.

Ron Selden March 4, 1996 From the print edition