You’d Better Be Sitting Down for This One TECH UPDATE With Apple’s stock in the hopper, and Steve Jobs (inventor of so many fantastic Apple gadgets) no longer with us, it seems his successor, Tim Cook, has taken up the challenge of following in the tradition of brilliant innova-tion that has come to be associated with the on-again off-again largest company in the … [Read more...]

Skiing Biologists Go to Extremes BY EVELYN BOSWELL A team of wildlife biologists are now skiing 400 miles through northern Mongolia, searching for signs of wolverines in the rugged, frigid mountains of the Darhad region. Headed by MSU graduate Gregg Treinish and featured on National Geographic’s education website, the researchers left Bozeman March 19. Four of the five … [Read more...]

Travelling to the West Yellowstone area? Be advised: wild bison migration is underway and bison are currently on or near the highways, day and night. Moving towards their calving grounds, members from the central herds roam out of Yellowstone's high elevations, snow-covered lands, toward the exposed south-facing slopes of Horse Butte and surrounding lands in the Madison … [Read more...]

Our March Into the Wilderness BY FANNY KELLY (First published in 1872) The Indians left the scene of their cruel rapacity, traveling northward, chanting their monotonous war song [after having massacred our wagon train, then kidnapped myself and my five-year old, Mary, on July 12, 1864, at Box Elder, in Wyoming, as we were headed for Montana]. After a ride of two miles, … [Read more...]

Up in the Air With Chris Boyer BY PAT HILL Chris Boyer of Bozeman is a pilot with a love of the land and an eye for detail. Those qualities combined with an affinity for photography and conservation have led to sometimes startling and often award-winning images in his portfolio. Boyer, who turned 49 in March, said a summer trip with his family to a Wyoming dude ranch, when … [Read more...]