Janet Finn and Ellen Crain tell the history of Butte,
Mont., from the viewpoint of its women in Motherlode:
Legacies of Women’s Lives and Labors in Butte,
Montana.
Montana
A court ruling disallows sport hunting the bears in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
This is bad news for bats and humans.
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is eager to build a synfuels
plant to turn coal into diesel, but it will neither easy nor cheap
to make gas gasification a reality in the West
Even Montanans critical of Sen. Conrad Burns admit
he’s a genius at bringing home the pork – a fact that
may make it harder for his Democratic challenger, Jon Tester, in
the November election.
Libby, Mont., asbestos victims now eligible for
disability; new wind-power farm to come to Colorado; New Mexico
Gov. Bill Richardson petitions to protect his state’s
roadless lands
Composting roadkill in Montana; Army mules for Afghanistan
in Wyoming; obsolete Earth First! Bumper stickers; 100-year-old
retiree dies; Butte’s new tourist attraction is a
pit
Revenge of the Mouse; The Cow That Wouldn’t
Surrender; high-country heifers; Miss Nevada speaks out; womb is
not a car seat; miniature cows; 65-year-old marriage in Cedaredge,
Colo., started VERY young
Increasing numbers of the West’s grizzly bears wear
radio collars, and some environmentalists question the necessity of
the practice
Montana cowgirls go "bareback riding" for calendar; Forest
Service worker vs. mountain lions; winery pollution in Napa Valley;
violent clown nabbed; plague of toads; Durango high school
reunion
In Montana’s Powder River County, the group Citizens
for Resource Development wants to encourage coalbed methane
drilling, while next door in Rosebud County, the Northern Plains
Resource Council is fighting hard against it
In Drummond: Ranch Life in the West,
Jill Brody uses photographs and interviews to paint a vivid
portrait of life in a hardscrabble Montana ranching town
The writer hails Montana's Legislature as it rebukes the
federal government over access fees on public lands and the Patriot
Act
A timeline traces the decline of logging, the rise of
environmentalism, and the slow asbestos poisoning of Libby,
Montana, by its vermiculite mine
Owyhee Canyonlands wilderness comes closer to Idaho; Bush
funds CALFED; oil and gas brings money to Rocky Mountain states;
National Wildlife Federation says federal Conservation Reserve
Program is abused
The Bush administration halts three gas wells on
Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front, and tosses a few more
election-year bones to environmentalists and hunters
Montana rancher Karl Rappold is determined to save his
beloved Rocky Mountain Front from development by the oil and gas
industry
Bear "product inspectors"; Rapid City, S.D., supports
transsexual city councilman; road rage afflicts runners in Boulder,
Colo.; feral llamas; bovine back-scratchers; candidate Linda Kelsch
tells Utah Legislature to mind its own morals
Missoula, Mont., like many amenity-rich Western towns, is
becoming too expensive for its working-class population
Doug Chadwick’s new book, True Grizz: Glimpses of
Fernie, Stahr, Easy, Dakota and Other Real Bears in the Modern
World, clears away rip-snorting tales to introduce people to actual
grizzlies
Arnold Schwarzenegger and hydrogen-powered cars; 19th
century operas vs. political correctness; dogs vs. coyotes in
Telluride; turning Mount Democrat into a Republican; Sen. Pete
Dominici loses wallet and identity; stupid bank-robber tricks; and
honk if y
Dru Carr and Doug Hawes-Davis formed High Plains Films to
make environmental documentaries that are even-handed, humane, and
not at all preachy
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