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  • An oil company comes in, drills a hole and a well is born. But what if the well stops producing or the company in charge goes bankrupt, leaving behind holes that can be thousands of feet deep, spout toxic gasses and muck things up on the surface? These so-called 'orphan wells' are all over Montana.
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  • For this web exclusive episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Carl Phillips, author of ‘Scattered Snows, to the North,’ and the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Then the War and Selected Poems, 2007-2020’ (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), in advance of his appearance at the Missoula Art Museum on November 6, 2024.
  • A bumblebee lands on a bright purple flower, its legs collecting pollen.
    Glenn Marangelo
    For most insects, getting a meal relies on their foraging or hunting abilities. Bumblebees certainly fall into that category. However, while they might not be able to grow their own food, they’ve found a way to force their food to grow.
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