This video of two burly Canadian security guards manhandling a Montanan trying to defend his private property started circulating around the internet recently. Wasn’t sure what it was for a while, then a tipster pointed out that this was a local rancher who lives along…
by David R. Montague
Mr. Montague was raised in Billings, where he wrote a column for the Gazette for 6 years. He’s the author of two books and has written for Northern Lights Magazine which gave many now-famous writers a start, including Mark Spragg, William deBuys and Terry Tempest Williams. He is now retired and lives in Potomac near Missoula with his wife.
In an essay about what he calls “normalized ignorance,” Professor Henry Giroux observes that “successful political campaigns are now dependent on an uninformed public.”
How accurate is his observation when it comes to the issue of climate change?
You Won’t Believe Who’s Writing All Those Gazette Stories The Last Best News will tell you anyway. Great stuff from this site as usual. Poll: Trump falls into tie with Clinton among Utah voters An ominous bellwether for the Montana GOP. …
by Josh Manning Manning is a combat veteran and serves on the leadership team of Common Defense, a group of progressive veterans joining together to affect political change. You can follow him on Twitter @joshuamanning23 Far from Montana, members of the House of Representatives are…
by Justin Robbins By now, you may have still not heard of the Standing Rock protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which hopes to transfer oil produced in the Bakken oil fields to Illinois and beyond. Without speculating on motive, I’ll just say it hasn’t…
One of Montana’s remaining investigative news stalwarts, the Bozeman Chronicle has broken the story today of an ethics investigation involving a handful of right-wing GOP muckety-mucks. The Montana Attorney General is investigating an alleged ethics violation by Gallatin County Commissioner Steve White, a TEA Party Republican and hobby drone aficionado…
A warm welcome to Plains Speaking, the new blog over at Northern Plains. Looks like they’re going to have posts by a variety of people and seems like a good way to keep on top of conservation news here in Montana. Once there, you can hit…
TEA Party Sen. Jennifer Fielder New Head of Extremist Group The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting this week that TEA Party, militia affiliated state Senator Jennifer Fielder will replace Ken Ivory as head of the ludicrous public land takeover quacks known as the American Lands Council. The…
by Ben Lamb Ben Lamb is an avid fly fisherman, big game hunter, and author who loves to spend as much time as possible in wild country. Follow him on Twitter @BenLamb1 There are few issues in the west as complex and convoluted as public land…
Ryan Zinke was a co-sponsor and voted yes on H.R. 1599. The Dark Act which is basically a Monsanto Protection Act. This bill prohibits Montanans from passing our own state food labeling
What happens when you criticize animal agriculture? I’ll tell you. You’re called a “complete moron.” A “libtard.” An “idiot” and an “a**hole.”
A group of Helena citizens has gotten together to make a positive impact in our community by raising funds to put solar power on the Lewis & Clark County Library. They’ve had pretty good buy-in. As KTVH reports, the groups have already raised over $9,000 towards a $20,000 goal. You…
by Ben Lamb
Ben Lamb is an avid fly fisherman, big game hunter, and author who loves to spend as much time as possible in wild country.
1.5 million acres of public land in Montana is off limits to the public. But that won’t be the focus of a legislative committee’s work under HJ 13, sponsored by Representative Kerry White (R-Bozeman). In fact, those acres of locked up public land were clearly taken off of the table by the sponsor, who only wants to focus on the closed system roads on forest service lands – some 9,000 miles.
By Matthew Koehler, WildWest Institute
With so much media and political attention focused on wildfires – and in some cases public lands management and calls to greatly increase logging on national forests by reducing public input and environmental analysis – it may be helpful to take a look at this year’s wildfire stats to see what’s burned and where.
