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
Montana

As subdivisions spread, it’s becoming harder to manage one of the state’s most valuable resources.

A rancher weighs the fate of wildlife and human encroachment in his new book.

Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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
Montana "characters" may be more a creation of newcomers
who feed on and then in turn feed our Western myths than a real
reflection of Montana’s character and past
In their new book, An Air That Kills, reporters Andrew
Schneider and David McCumber tell the shocking story of how
asbestos poisoned Libby, Mont., and continues to harm the
nation
With its beautiful photographs and fine writing, Pete
Bengeyfield’s Incredible Vision: The Wildlands of Greater
Yellowstone succeeds in giving readers a new look at an
often-photographed landscape
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
Judge Emmet Sullivan reinstates a Clinton-era ban on
snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks
$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
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The Rocky Mountain Front in Montana is precious land, and
it is under threat from the Bush administration’s predatory
energy policy
Notorious daredevil Evel Knievel is the star of Butte,
Montana’s "Evel Knievel Daze," but not everybody in his
hometown looks up to him
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
Bozeman, Mont., is one of over 175 communities in the U.S.
that have passed resolutions opposing the Patriot Act
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
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
Watching his children discover nature on the
family’s land in central Montana, the writer remembers his
own childhood special places on a Connecticut beach
Wildlife biologists, environmentalists and Western
politicians are engaged in a fierce debate over whether two decades
of protection have so restored Yellowstone's grizzly population
that the animal ought to be removed from the endangered species
list.
The deaths of 342 migrating snow geese in Montana's
Berkeley Pit are blamed on the pit's toxicity by environmentalists,
although the mine disputes it.
Montana Human Rights Network and attorney general's office
fight against increasing influence and influx of radical right hate
groups.
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