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New Posts: Essays by Teresa Ponikvar in S '06 and F '02

Winter 2008--Snowpack by Elizabeth Grossman; Out of Bounds by Kalie Rider; The Route by Scott Alexander Jones; Poetry by William Keener and Allen Braden

Summer 2008--Sand by Craig Childs; Ten Years of Stony Sleep by Nathaniel Miller; Poetry by Aleria Jensen and Scott Jones

Winter 2007--Poetry & Prose by Alison Hawthorne Deming; Thirty Miles of Lead Time by Craig Rigdon; Boy Missing Near Judith Gap by Chad Dundas; Poetry by Melissa Mylchreest and Jennifer Johnson; much more.

Summer 2007--Outbound by Gary Ferguson; Dying with the High Plains by Kalie Ryder; Poetry by Erika Fredrickson and Dana Sonnenschein; much more. 

Winter 2006

winter 2006
  • My Life as a Pantheist - Sharman Apt Russell contemplates her relationship with God in all things
  • Clarity Can Be Deceptive - Greg Gordon on lessons learned while paddling with his child-daughter
  • Peter Metcalf chats with food activist Anna Lappé about the future of agricultur
  • Poetry by Jessica Babcock, Jill Beauchesne, Heather Cahoon, Jerry Mathes II and Josh Slotnick

 

Spring 2006
Spring 2006
  • Moa Hunting - Kim Todd looks for big birds in New Zealand
  • Beyond the Highway Towns - Heather McKee
  • Wildcat's Revenge - Matthew S. Frank
  • Secret Passages - Teresa Ponikvar 
  • Left - Genevieve Jessop Marsh
  • Succession - Jeff Ross
  • Coming out of the Country, Homestead - Jeremey Pataky
 
Fall 2005
  • Hard Miles in the Dark —Reflections on death in the Elkhorn Mountains, by Janisse Ray
  • Not by Medicine and Other Poems — Kim Stafford
  • A farmer's journey for real food and the people who grow it — Ariel Bleth reviews Michael Ableman's Fields of Plenty
  • Into the Abyss — A profile of a creative ethnobotanist, by Jeff Gailus

 

Spring 2005
  • On Rage and Writing — Monica Wright interviews Robert Michael Pyle
  • In the City of Rocks and Other Poems — Robert Michael Pyle
  • Our Father, which Art in Brids in Fish — Jordan Fisher Smith
  • 2oth Street Bridge — Becca Rose Hall

 

Fall 2004
  • Romeo Shows Jamey the Door — new fiction by David James Duncan
  • Damage — Poetry from Wendell Berry
  • Most of All, the Quiet — Susan Marsh finds peace in Yellowstone

 

Spring 2004
  • Whirlwind in the Desert — Sacha Pealer contemplates ancient wisdom in the Utah desert
  • Walking on Water — Derrick Jensen inspires a class of miracle makers
  • Piercing the Crow's Eye — Katie Yale walks the line between waking and reality in crow time

 

Spring 2003
spring 2003
  • Snaring Ghosts — Kathy Marieb looks for grizzlies in the North Cascades.
  • Where Fire and Water Meet — Katharine Hyzy on restoration, human and otherwise.
 
Fall 2003
Fall 2003
  • Dust of Snow — John Elder reflects on poetry and the meaning and practice of "conservation."
  • Beautiful River, Arms of God — Susan Tomlinson finds beauty of mortality in an ephemeral moment.
  • Low Murmur, Low Song — Danielle Lattuga listens to elephants of Africa and hears a message for humanity.

 

Spring 2002
spring 2002
  • Our Good Fortune - David James Duncan meditates on compassion and respect in our society, post 9-11.
  • Chambers - Clara Sophia Weygandt relates how an encoutner with a peregrine falcon changed her life.

 



Fall 2002
fall 2002
 
Winter/Spring 2001
spring 2001
  • Tongitian he — Peter Stark discovers a hidden monastery while trekking in the mountains of Tibet.
  • Mogasm — Ari Le Vaux recounts a wild ride from one chakra to another while bumping and grinding at Snowbowl.
  • A Little about My Chainsaw, a Horse Named Pride, and Three Hundred Miles on a Bike — James Lainsbury shares his story of horse logging and biking in Maine.
 
Fall 2001
fall 2001
  • Bitterroot — Scott Russell Sanders introduces Teller essays.
  • Starlings, A Pig, and Four Deer — James McLaughlin shares lessons learned over a lifetime spent killing things.
  • Things Not Seen in a Rear View Mirror — Debra Marquart reflects on leaving, and returning, to North Dakota.
 
Spring/Summer 2000
spring 2000
  • The Evolution of Revolution: A Brief History of Environmental Activism in the Northern Rockies — Mary Anne Peine shares a journey of two histories: one of the environmental movement in the Northern Rockies and another of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Montana.

 

Winter/Spring 2000
winter 2000
  • For Better or for Worse: Trail Proposal Seeks Public Blessing — Leeann Drabenstott introduces a possible addition to our National Trail System.
  • National Endangerment — Dan Brister gives an inside look at his work with the Buffalo Field Campaign.
 
Spring 1999
spring 1999
  • Of Birds and Men — Terry Ryan focuses on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to present an investigative look at the increasing tension between human land development and mating patterns of migratory and resident birds.
 
Summer 1999
summer 1999
  • Battle for the Clearwater — Ethan Hasenstein explains why no one should dump a bucket of non-native northern pike into a Montana river drainage.

 

Fall/Winter 1999
fall_winter 1999
  • Gifts — William Kittredge introduces two of the essays featured at the Teller Writing Institute.
  • Doing the Honey Lake — Clara Weygandt discovers an intimate connection between the desert, people, and plants.
  • The Cordillera in Landscapes and Stories — Michael Kustudia examines environmental reform in the Dominican Republic.

 

Deep Winter 1999
winter 1999
  • Grouse Hunting — Malcom Brooks confronts what can go wrong in the field
  • The Poison Wait — Steven Rinella takes us into the murky world of mushroom hunting.
Spring 1998
  • Howling Over Wolves — Ron Scholl considers our need to define the unknown about wolves in Yellowstone, which are burdened with plenty of labels-threatened, endangered, experimental, even tourist commodity.
  • Debating Burns' Proposed Bill and Tribal Jurisdiction — Pete Murney introduces open letters sent to Senator Conrad Burns by Cheryl & Gordon Belcourst and Alan Mikkelsen
Summer/Fall 1998
summer 1998
  • An Insider's View — Chris Arthur makes a provocative case for elected officials, the legislative process, and even that old stand-by, democracy.
  • History, Economy, Landscape: A Look at Montana Ranching — Sarah Heim-Jonson considers the public debate over cows on public and private lands and gives the good news: ranching practices that work in concert with the land and water.

 

Winter 1998
winter 1998
  • At the Edge of Headlights — Ian McCluskey suggests that the recognition wildlife mortality on roads is gaining may not be enough.
  • Wildlands Roads: Interim Policy Elicits Questions — Bethanie Walder, Hal Rowe, David Havlick and Phil Knight comment on the interim policy on roadless areas that has Westerners wondering about the impacts.

 

Spring 1997
spring 1997
  • Greening Anaconda — Kent A. Curtis questions whether a smelter town can cover up its toxic past.
  • Counting Coup — Emily Cousins recounts the history and mining debate of the Sweet Grass Hills.

 

Summer 1997
Summer 1997
  • Cultivating Self-sufficiency — Lisa Kerscher reveals how community gardens help satisfy basic needs.
  • An Embrace or Attack? — Leeann Drabenstott shares how northern rockies farmers brace for national organic standards.
  • Too Much of a Good Thing? — Rob Lubke tells of the controversy surrounding the future of farmers' market.
Fall/Winter 1997
fall 1997
  • Neosho — Dan Crockett shares his father's life and death with the Neosho River.
  • Manu — Christine Paige reflects on time spent at a biological station in Manu National Park.
Fall 1996
fall 1996
  • Alone with the Future — Henri Bensusse
  • Roots and Wings: A Bicycle Journey Across the West — Doug Johnson

 

Summer 1995
summer 1995
  • Crowheart — Rick Craig
  • Flight of the Water Ouzel — Colin Chisholm






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