Xavier Springer’s photo, “Swiftcurrent Falls on a Smoky Morning” (above), taken during a bright orange sunrise in Glacier National Park, has been chosen as the grand-prize winner of the Montana Wilderness Association’s 2017 photo contest. Springer, of Great Falls, was among photographers who submitted more 1,000 entries in the association’s ninth annual contest. (more…) Continue Reading →
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At wilderness group gathering, Crow film to be shown
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The Eastern Wildlands Chapter of the Montana Wilderness Association will be showing a short film, “How We See It: A Story of Apsaalooke Landscape,” durings its annual meeting Monday night. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, Art House Cinema & Pub, Eastern Wildlands Chapter, Montana Wilderness Association
Montanans blast Trump’s monument-shrinking plans
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Conservation groups across Montana and the West on Monday blasted a decision by President Donald Trump to reduce the size of two national monuments, saying his proclamations represent an outright assault on public lands and may be illegal. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Montana, News, Business for Montana's Outdoors, Donald Trump, Montana Wilderness Association, national monuments, Ryan Zinke
‘Wilderness Walks’ unveil beauty of Eastern Montana
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Starting this Sunday and continuing through the end of September, a series of “Wilderness Walks” will be offered at 10 locations in Eastern Montana and northern Wyoming. You could probably tell what part of Montana many of these walks are in just by glancing at their names: Bitter Creek, West Crooked Creek, Terry Badlands, Tongue River Breaks and Chain Buttes. A lot of the places are spectacular, but in subtler ways than places like Paradise Valley or Glacier National Park are spectacular. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Diversions, Montana, Charlie Smillie, Montana Wilderness Association, Wilderness Walks
Map offers comprehensive, enticing guide to SE Montana
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Karen Stevenson remembers talking to a Miles City Economic Development Council class this winter in Miles City about the Buttes, Breaks, and Badlands map published last fall by the Montana Wilderness Association. Subtitled “Off the Beaten Path in Southeast Montana,” the two-sided map pinpoints dozens of parks, wildland areas, camping, hiking and birding locales, historic sites, areas of geologic and paleontological interest, battle sites, museums, restaurants and watering holes from Roundup to Alzada and Belfry to Sidney. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Diversions, Bureau of Land Management, Charlie Smillie, Forrest Theisen, Karen Stevenson, Leadership Montana, Montana Wilderness Association, National Geographic Society
Terry Badlands beckon on a perfect fall day
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TERRY — We went to the Terry Badlands on Saturday knowing that the natural bridges—huge spans of sandstone over a dry gulch—were prime attractions of the area. What we didn’t know was that one of the first things you encounter as you approach the badlands from the frontage road west of Terry is a bridge of an entirely different kind: the old Milwaukee Road railroad bridge across the Yellowstone River. (more…) Continue Reading →
