Here, kitty, kitty
The disturbing fate of a mountain lion cub
Just before Memorial Day weekend 2011, a group of U.S. Forest Service employees was finishing a training session in the Lubrecht Experimental Forest, outside Missoula, when some of them found a brush-covered depression in the ground and, in it, a tiny mountain lion cub.
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For an anniversary so steeped in controversy, last Saturday passed with little acknowledgment in Montana.
Fighting for Montanans?
Not when they care more about winning than justice
Montana's political theater is awash in hypocrisy and contradiction right now, with Democrats and Republicans claiming they're fighting for Montanans.
(Ochenski)
Do the land math
Selling wilderness is the nuttiest idea yet
Of all the nutty ideas floating around the West of late—that Wyoming needs an aircraft carrier to prepare for the coming apocalypse, that Idaho residents should be allowed to lure wolves by using pets as bait or that Yellowstone bison in Montana are "bio-terrorists" because they might cause brucellosis—none can match Utah's on the incredulity meter.
(Range)
Here, kitty, kitty
The disturbing fate of a mountain lion cub
Just before Memorial Day weekend 2011, a group of U.S. Forest Service employees was finishing a training session in the Lubrecht Experimental Forest, outside Missoula, when some of them found a brush-covered depression in the ground and, in it, a tiny mountain lion cub.
University of Montana health insurance rates skyrocket
Federal tweaks to the laws governing healthcare are forcing the University of Montana and other state campuses to increase student insurance premiums.
(Info)
Daughter of Ruby Ridge perseveres
Sara Weaver won't ever forget the day a government sniper shot her mother.
(Up Front)
Mountain High
A few more of these sunny days and you may just forget that it's going to rain every other day throughout the month of June.
Green Investment Group may claim defamation
The Green Investment Group, Inc., which last year bought the former Smurfit-Stone pulp mill in Frenchtown, has apparently threatened to sue VanTek Inc., a Washington-based supplier of used paper mill equipment and a former GIGI business partner, over information VanTek recently provided to the Independent regarding GIGI's solvency.
(Info)
Lethal lick
Is road salt drawing bighorn sheep to their doom?
The bighorn sheep herd near Thompson Falls has fluctuated over the past 31 years.
(Up Front)
Tom Maclay goes all out with latest Bitterroot Resort proposal
Since 2004, the Forest Service has repeatedly told Tom Maclay that his proposed Bitterroot Resort is incompatible with the agency's land management plans.
(Info)
Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS targets Tester
Sen. Jon Tester hit the campaign trail in Missoula again last weekend, touring the nonprofit reuse center Home ReSource and chatting up Democratic supporters at a dinner honoring Pat and Carol Williams.
(Info)
Viewfinder
Arrowleaf balsamroot reach toward the sun in Missoula’s North Hills on Tuesday, May 8.
Root of evil
The BoxCutters dig up the dirt on their new album
William Birkenbuel has a few regrets: spotlight-hunting coyotes in his hometown of Great Falls when he was in high school; maybe a little too much partying and chasing girls.
Baixiong to India
Janet McGahan's path to painting in color
The house in Arlee where Janet McGahan lives feels like a painter's paradise.
(The Arts)
Up in smoke
Code chronicles Montana's weed debate
Code of the West ends with a postscript about one of the documentary's main characters, Tom Daubert, noting that the chief architect of the state's medical marijuana law had rejected a plea bargain with the federal government that would have resulted in a $250,000 fine and a minimum of 10 years in prison.
(Film Features)
Eric Tollefson
The Polar Ends
"Heart on a String," from Eric Tollefson's new album The Polar Ends, evokes the big-band title "I've Got the World on a String."
(Noise)
McDougall
A Few Towns More
Close your eyes and waste a warm afternoon on your porch, corncob pipe in hand.
(Noise)
Michael Kiwanuka
Home Again
Word about Michael Kiwanuka started to spread last year with the release of two EPs that gave an all-too-brief glimpse of a soulful new voice in the increasingly crowded throwback R&B genre.
(Noise)
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