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Montana Connections

Monica Tranel

Montana issues that affect us all: land, water, natural resources, extreme concentration of wealth that closes us out from our public land and hurts our communities.

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The Medicine Line

This week Hannah Natanson’s story about how the tariffs have impacted Blackfoot tribal members was published.

Natanson wrote about how Susan Webber, Jonathan St. Goddard, and Rhonda and David Mountain Chief filed a lawsuit claiming that, u...

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Granite Built a Town, what does Broadview get?

In the 1890s, Granite, Montana, pulled forty million dollars of silver from the earth. About three thousand people called it home. In the space of a year after August 1893, Granite had about 140 – the same size town as Broadview, Montana is...

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Braiding Sweet Grass and Sheep Creek

Our northern and southern borders are under attack.

On July 20, 2026, three separate proclamations imposed tariffs under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (Smoot-Hawley). Hockey sticks are on the list. Who knew Canadian stick productio...

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A River Runs Dry

Rowing across rivers and lakes brought to mind Norman Maclean’s story A River Runs Through it: “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.”

Fifty years ago Maclean published his story about growing up in Missoula,...

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August 20, a third time

Twice in the last century, August 20 was a day to face the fire.

In 1910, fires across western Montana and Idaho burned about three million acres in a few days. Eighty-seven people died. The people fighting the fires were mostly young men...

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