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The Smith Brothers Film in Livingston

Filmmaking Twins Strive to Capture Authentic Montana BY BRIAN D’AMBROSIO 02/06/16 Grandiose mountains, rolling plains covered with fields of wheat and barley, the romantic mystique of the West—these images are what people envision when thinking of Montana. Few people immediately think of the hardship of winter, isolation, or cold variables understood only through the … [Read more...]

Grizzlies Still Need Protection

BY ROGER HAYDEN 02/05/16 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has indicated it plans to remove the iconic Yellowstone grizzly bear from protection under the Endan-gered Species Act early this year. The federal agency's plan is irresponsible and premature because grizzlies are struggling to adjust to declining food sources, even as they face an uncertain future caused by … [Read more...]

Wildlife Casting Service Squares Off With Bureaucracy

An African lion beneath Montana's Bridger Mountains. Courtesy Animals of Montana

Wild Animal Talent Agency Challenges Montana FWP BY PAT HILL 02/05/16 A Bozeman, Montana, area company that specializes in renting wild animals to photographers and filmmakers plans to challenge Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks’ decision to revoke the company’s operating permit. FWP announced on Jan. 4 that it has taken “formal steps” regarding revocation of the … [Read more...]

Charlie Russell and the Heroic Cheyenne

Charlie Russell

Also, Granville Stuart’s Desirable Daughters, and Teddy’s Infatuation With a Dusky Maiden BY TEDDY BLUE ABBOTT When I was with the N Bar there was a fellow working for their Powder River outfit by the name of John Green. He was from Texas like the rest of them, but he had been everywhere and seen everything, to hear him tell it. One morning at the ranch house they brought … [Read more...]

Helena Library Connects Montana to Roswell Mystery

Roswell Army Air Field Intelligence Officer Jesse Marcel, sr., 1947.

BY BRIAN D’AMBROSIO 02/03/16 On or around July 1, 1947, something reportedly crashed in the Corona, New Mexico desert. After word of the wreckage circulated, Major Jesse A. Marcel, an air force intelligence officer for the 509th Bomb Group, stationed at Roswell Army Air Field, and two Counter Intelligence Corps agents surveyed the area. Marcel later claimed to have found … [Read more...]

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