Let's take a page from the Blackfoot Challenge, and start with the 80/20 rule. That, as explained by Ovando rancher David Mannix at a high-profile conservation-minded meeting this week, means first talking about the issues on which we can all agree, which typically covers about 80 percent of the discussion, before tackling the more contentious issues - that last 20 percent [read more...]

During the past several months, while Sen. Jon Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act has been grabbing most of the headlines and capturing a great deal of attention in Montana, another collaborative effort to preserve one of the state’s last best places, long in the making, was finally unveiled. [read more...]

I parked my truck at a trailhead along the Rocky Mountain Front. After a couple of miles, the sign for the Bob Marshall Wilderness appeared, and I knew that I was getting close to where I’d be hunting. There was fresh snow and some good elk sign in the area. [read more...]

Thirty-five years ago, I was a young physician with the opportunity to practice in one of many different areas of the country. As a young boy growing up on a farm in Kansas, I was awestruck by the wild mountain country of Colorado, first encountered during a family vacation. [read more...]

Call it a classic case of “politics as the art of the possible.” It’s been 26 years since new wilderness was designated in Montana — the Lee Metcalf Wilderness in the Madison Range signed into law, in 1983, by President Ronald Reagan. [read more...]

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