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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

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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 agriculture

Poetry by Jessica Babcock, Jill Beauchesne, Heather Cahoon, Jerry Mathes II and Josh Slotnick

 

 

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Spring 2006

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Moa Hunting - Kim Todd looks for big birds in New Zealand

Beyond the Highway Towns - Heather McKee

Wildcat's Revenge - Matthew S. Frank

Left - Genevieve Jessop Marsh

Succession - Jeff Ross

Coming out of the Country, Homestead - Jeremey Pataky

 

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Spring 2003

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Snaring Ghosts — Kathy Marieb looks for grizzlies in the North Cascades.

Where Fire and Water Meet — Katharine Hyzy on restoration, human and otherwise.

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Fall 2003

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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.

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Spring 2002

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Our Good Fortune — David James Duncan meditates on compassion and respect in our society, post 9-11.

Chambers — Clara Sophia Weygandt relates how an encounter with a peregrine falcon changed her life.

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Fall 2002

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Lingua Rediviva — Robert Michael Pyle on language in a time of peril.

Reflections in the Eyes of Others — Teresa Ponikvar searches for hope despite the odds.

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Winter/Spring 2001

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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.

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Fall 2001

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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.

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Spring/Summer 2000

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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.

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Winter/Spring 2000

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Fall/Winter 1999

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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.

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Deep Winter 1999

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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.

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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

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Summer/Fall 1998

Summer/Fall 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.

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Winter 1998

Deep 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.

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Spring 1997

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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.

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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.

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Fall/Winter 1997

fall/winter 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.

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Fall 1996

fall 1996

Alone with the Future — Henri Bensussen

Roots and Wings: A Bicycle Journey Across the West — Doug Johnson

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Summer 1995

summer 1995

Crowheart — Rick Craig

Flight of the Water Ouzel — Colin Chisholm

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