11+ hour, 20+ min ago  (234+ words) Montana Public Radio Due to a technical error with our mailing system, we mailed pledge reminders to some monthly donors who should not have received them. If one of these lands in your mailbox, please know it was sent in…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (272+ words) A group of Hamilton fourth graders help carefully pour a big white bucket of squirming juvenile trout into the still waters of Hieronymus Pond. They just spent several months caring for the fish in a 50-gallon tank in the corner…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago  (293+ words) Along the banks of the Clark Fork River, birds aren't the only creatures chattering. A group of Missoula fifth graders are hunched over card tables with white buckets on top full of water, river scum " and creepy crawlies. The students…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (530+ words) It's unusual to see a group of skiers parked on the side of a run, especially when there's fresh powder. But as the fat flakes were falling on one of this winter's rare snowy days, fifteen skiers stopped amidst the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (566+ words) A dozen fourth graders at Hamilton's Daly Elementary huddle around a table. Their teacher, Sunni Stuber, is carefully dispensing a chemical into a small test tube. The kids are checking for the concentration of ammonia in their 50-gallon fish tank…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1582+ words) Have you had any unexpected bird sightings this winter? Maybe you saw birds in unexpected places or times. Or maybe birds you expected never showed up. You're not alone. Bird researchers " and an observant listener " have noticed, too. That listener…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (223+ words) One of the biggest questions in environmental philosophy pertains to humans" place in nature. Soazig Le Bihan, a philosophy professor at the University of Montana, has a very straightforward answer to that question, though. To her, that divide doesn"t…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (536+ words) Montana Audubon researcher Bo Crees and I spot a black swift darting into the misty spray of the waterfall spilling down above us. We're surveying a site in the Bitterroot Mountains. It's just a moment until the dark bird disappears…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (240+ words) Recreationists in several National Forests must keep all food and attractants safely contained and away from wildlife. That's mandated by Food Storage Orders. A group of volunteers are helping enforce the orders amid staffing cuts National Forests are home to…...

5+ mon, 1+ day ago  (813+ words) Former state grizzly bear manager Wesley Sarmento vividly recalls a routine call along the Rocky Mountain Front in 2019. It was early in the morning, and a bear was in a family's front yard. "This family had chickens and they had…...