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ADAPTING SUSTENANCE: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE PRESERVE TRADITIONAL FOOD SOURCES
Mary Katherine Auld
Traditional foodways of Indigenous people around the world are being changed by human-caused climate change, environmental policy, and land management. For Indigenous people in interior Alaska and Montana, culture and survival are tied tightly to hunted and gathered food. The average American gets their food ... Read More
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A Midwest Migration with Endangered Whooping Cranes
Katherine Anne Hill
In 1941, the world’s last migratory flock of whooping cranes was just 15 birds strong. Today, that flock has grown to over 500 birds and is increasing exponentially every year. But even as the flock continues to recover, their migratory corridor continues to shrink, due ... Read More
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THE WILD THAT REMAINS: A ONCE IN A GENERATION FOREST PLAN REIGNITES THE WILDERNESS DEBATE IN MONTANA’S GALLATIN RANGE
Anthony Stephen Pavkovich
The movement to preserve Montana’s Gallatin Mountains, which stretch north from Yellowstone National Park, has been ongoing since the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964. Largely undeveloped, the range’s sinuous, rocky crest, fertile meadows and thick lodgepole forests are vital to one of the ... Read More
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Dire Straits: A Tale of Two Treaties
Patrick S. Shea
When I arrived in Northern Michigan last May, I came equipped with the pre-reporting I needed to follow this story. I moved to the area just as the Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s deadline to shut down Line 5 approached. But more than seven months later, the ... Read More
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The Intersection of Past and Present
Hannah Welzbacker
Science often faces a crossroad between the past and present. Ever changing technology allows us to make new discoveries while at the same time, elements from past cultures need preserving. The three stories in this portfolio all highlight the intersection of past and present and ... Read More
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Managed: Examining the Relationship Between Montana's State Government and Its Natural Resources
Peter Dempsey Zimmerman
The three stories in this portfolio examine the relationship between Montana's government and its natural resources. Chapter one is a narrative outlining the stories, my reporting and publication. Chapter two: New Governor Greg Gianforte makes his picks for the heads of state environmental regulatory agencies, ... Read More
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Ghost Forests: The Decline of the Whitebark Pine
Breanna (Roy) McCabe
Whitebark pine habitat in the high elevation is rapidly becoming "ghost forests." As outbreaks from white pine blister rust and mountain pine beetle target the tree at increasing rates, forest managers and scientists are using genetics to try to save the tree.
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Grasping Wild: A Documentary Film on the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
Mikensi R. Romersa
The Absaroka- Beartooth Wilderness stretches nearly 1 million acres from south central Montana to northern Wyoming, and shares a southern border with Yellowstone National Park. In 2018, the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness celebrated its 40th anniversary, as well as the designation of East Rosebud Creek as a ... Read More
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Scene of a changing climate
Mona Nazeri Dr
For the last 500,000 years, the world climate has been in transition from warm to cold and vice versa. However, recent human-caused climate change has increased the rate of change in extreme and average climate conditions. Globally, people are facing higher than average temperatures as ... Read More
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Tailings Tale: Mike Horse looms dark over the Blackfoot
Elizabeth L. Harrison
In the spring of 1975, a heavy rain blew out an earthen dam holding back toxic metal waste from the now defunct Mike Horse mine at the headwaters of the scenic Big Blackfoot River. Federal agencies, a corporate mining giant, and the small town community ... Read More
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