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RED LODGE — “It’s about the batteries, stupid.” Former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer said he thought of using that phrase—which occurred to him the first time he drove an all-electric Tesla car—as the title for the book he published last year. (more…) Continue Reading →
Wind chills the bright May morning as we walk the grassy plateau of Gordon Butte, a 2-mile-wide plug of volcanic rock towering above the plains about three miles west of Martinsdale, in Meagher County. The snow-streaked Crazy Mountains pull our gaze south, but we’re heading north, to the butte’s sharp, timbered edge. My tour guide, Eli Bailey, a project manager with Bozeman-based Absaroka Energy, stops to point out where an 18-foot-diameter water conduit will be drilled deep into the butte and diagonally out its base. This part of the plateau, he says, will become an 80-acre reservoir. (more…) Continue Reading →
I wrote yesterday about running into epic walker Steve Fugate a little west of Lavina on Highway 12. That was at the beginning of a quick dash across several counties for me. Today, as I was driving home on Highway 12, this time mid-afternoon about midway between Martinsdale and Two Dot, I encountered another road warrior. (more…) Continue Reading →
